‘No Kings’ anti-Trump protesters clash with MAGA supporters

Huge ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump and the far-right have swept across the US.

People opposing Trump’s policies, like the Iran war, ICE and rising prices, gathered in major cities yesterday, with banners and effigies against the US president, JD Vance and other government top brass.

Organisers of the protests said they hoped the latest No Kings outing could attract millions of people.

While most of yesterday’s action is believed to have been peaceful, in West Palm Beach, Florida, tensions were high after Trump supporters engaged in verbal altercations with No Kings protesters.

A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty was apprehended by the police in Los Angeles (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) A protester is knocked to the ground by an LAPD mounted police horse as officers evacuate the area following clashes near the Metropolitan Detention Center during the ‘No Kings’ rally (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

The protesters came face to face with competing flags and signs, with swearing and shouting until the police intervened, CNN reports.

In the metropolitan Los Angeles region alone, 40 protests were planned, including at the police detention centres.

Some clashes were reported between the demonstrators and the police, with officers launching tear gas at the people near the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison, according to the LA Times.

Protesters carried a large baby Trump blimp at the protests (Picture: Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

In London, an estimated half a million people gathered in London for ‘the biggest demonstration ever against the far right’, organisers said.

Protesters carrying placards saying ‘No to racism, no to Trump’, and ‘Refugees welcome’ marched through the capital to Whitehall amid a heavy police presence, with officers lining the streets.

Organisers said their estimates showed they had successfully outnumbered the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom rally in London in September.

Thousands marched in California’s Huntington Beach, Orange County, against Trump (Picture: Ron Lyon/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

That demonstration – organised by right-wing activist Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – was attended by between 110,000 and 150,000 people, while about 5,000 were involved in an anti-racism counter-demonstration.

There were several incidents of violent disorder which left some police officers injured on that occasion, and the event was condemned at the time by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who said it had left people feeling ‘more scared than they were before’.

On Saturday, organisers said people had gathered for a ‘peaceful’ demonstration against ‘hatred and division and racism’.

Rally co-organiser Kevin Courtney, chairman of the coalition, told crowds gathered on Whitehall: ‘Our estimate is now that there are half a million people on this demonstration – the biggest demonstration ever against the far right.

Protesters demonstrate during the ‘Together Against the Far Right’ protest in London (Picture: EPA)

‘And it gives us all confidence to carry on. Thank you very much.’

Speakers included former Labour MP Diane Abbott, who now sits as an independent in Parliament.

She told a cheering crowd: ‘The turnout today is the largest anti-racist march that I have seen in my lifetime, and you should all be proud of yourselves for coming out in such numbers today.’

Demonstrators carry a figure depicting US President Donald Trump (Picture: Reuters)

Sabby Dhalu, who is joint secretary of the Together Alliance and co-convenor of Stand Up To Racism, said the UK is seeing an ‘unprecedented growth’ in support for far-right organisations – but that she believed the size of attendance on Saturday had ‘intimidated the far right’ away from a counter-protest.

Speaking before the event, she said: ‘The Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom demonstration back in September 2025 was the biggest far-right mobilisation in British history.

‘We believe that the majority of British people stand against the hatred and division and racism that was being encouraged at that demonstration and by these types of organisations, and it’s time to act.’

People take part in a Together Alliance march through central London (Picture: PA) Organisers said their estimates showed they had successfully outnumbered the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom rally (Picture: PA)

Asked if she was concerned about potential counter-protests and disorder, Ms Dhalu said: ‘We’re confident that the size of our mobilisation here today has actually intimidated the far-right, and I think they feel that they are not confident enough to stand against us because they know that we’re going to be out in big numbers.’

Singer Billy Bragg, who ahead of the march criticised US president Donald Trump as ‘a constant reminder of the cruel realities of the politics of division’, performed some protest songs onstage at Whitehall.

He said while concerns some have about migration might be justified, ‘their solutions are not justifiable in any way or sort’.

A person carries a placard as demonstators gather prior to a march against far-right extremism from Park Lane to Trafalgar Square (Picture: Reuters)

He added: ‘Re migration, the forced deportation of our fellow citizens, we’ve seen what that looks like in the United States of America.

‘And if it does come to that in this country then we will have to be as courageous as the people of Minneapolis who stood in the streets to deny (deportations).’

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