As US-Israel war on Iran rages on, millions angry with Trump expected to fill US streets

Protesters in front of the American consulate in Amsterdam, in solidarity with the anti-Trump “No Kings’” protests taking place throughout the US.

Photo: EPA Massive nationwide protests against US President Donald Trump are expected on Saturday as millions of people vent fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and other forms of cruel, law-trampling governance.

It is the third time in less than a year that Americans will take to the streets as part of a grassroots movement called “No Kings”, the most vocal and visual conduit for opposition to Trump since he began his second term in January 2025.

And now they have something new to fume over – the war in Iran that Trump launched alongside Israel, with ever-shifting goals and timelines for completion.

The first such nationwide protest day came in June on Trump’s 79th birthday and coincided with a military parade in Washington that he insisted on holding.

Several million people turned out, from New York to San Francisco and many places in between.

The second “No Kings” day in October drew an estimated seven million protesters, according to organisers.

Protesters on Michigan Avenue for the “No Kings” march after a rally at Butler Field in October 2025 in Chicago.

Photo: TNS The goal now is to bring out even more people on Saturday, as Trump’s approval rating is low at around 40 per cent and midterm elections loom in November, when Trump’s Republicans could lose control of both chambers.

Just as Trump is worshipped by many in his “Make America Great Again” movement, on the other side of America’s wide political chasm he is disliked or even loathed with equal passion.

Trump foes bemoan his penchant for ruling by executive decree, his use of the Justice Department to prosecute opponents, his embrace of fossil fuels and climate change denial even as the planet warms, his fight against racial and gender diversity programmes, and his new-found taste for flexing US military power after campaigning as a man of peace. “Since the last time we marched, this administration has dragged us deeper into war,” said Naveed Shah of Common Defense, a veterans association that belongs to the “No Kings” movement. “At home, we’ve watched citizens killed in the streets by militarised forces.

We’ve seen families torn apart and immigrant communities targeted.

All of it done in the name of one man trying to rule like a king,” Shah said.

Organisers say more than 3,000 rallies are planned, an increase from the last p

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