We're here live at the No Kings protest in Los Angeles. It's loud. They've got a lot of cowbell. And I saw that you have maybe my favorite sign today. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's a good reminder. You know, ice melts under pressure under the heat of the revolution. - And my butt crack. - Tell us what brings you out today? [00:00:19] You know, I'm just reminded that these are the same types of insecure little boys that called me names in elementary school, and now they've just put on a suit and called themselves officials. So I'm out here to. We're not we're not going to be shrunken. We're not going to be silenced. And twice. [00:00:37] On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people across the US took to the streets to protest Trump's power grabs and take the attention away from Trump's big, beautiful birthday parade. Before we get into the details about the nationwide protest, [00:00:53] Jenk what are your initial thoughts on the No King's Day of Action? I kind of love it. I think that, it's a good way to fight back. And as far as I could tell, it was all peaceful. Beautiful, protest. The most American thing that you could do. [00:01:13] We're asking you guys in a live chat poll. Do you think that no. King's protest had an impact? Right. And and I think that the impact is a is a good question. And I think that that's what we should discuss. But let's get let's figure out what happened first. Right. And then I'll tell you why I think that, it was so positive. [00:01:34] Okay. Well, let's give you some context on this protest. The no King's theme was orchestrated by the 50 over 51 movement, a national movement made up of everyday Americans who stand for democracy and [00:01:49] against what they call the authoritarian actions of the Trump administration. The name 5051 stands for 50 states, 50 protests, one movement. And according to their website, the Trump administration defied our courts, [00:02:05] deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights and slashed our services. They've done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. They described the protests as a nationwide day of defiance, while the no. [00:02:24] King's protest follows days of civil unrest in Los Angeles due to federal immigration raids and and especially Trump's deployment of the National Guard, that was not the sole focus. TYT spoke to Karen Rasmussen at the protest in downtown LA, who was [00:02:42] protesting over a multitude of things. - Take a look. - Millions of people are going to die. When Rubio says that no children are dying on his watch. He is a liar. Children will die. Women will die. Refugees will die. [00:02:58] People all over the world who depended on our aid are going to die. My name is Karen and I'm here because I lost my job. I was working with the UN migration agency, IOM, and one of the first executive orders of Trump. [00:03:14] Closed the US refugee admissions program after two decades of safely bringing refugees to the United States. It is just. Heartbreaking to think about how many people will suffer, people who had nothing to do with our government, nothing to do with our country, [00:03:31] are going to suffer and die as a result of the decisions of not only Trump, but Musk and his so-called Department of Government efficiency. Where's the waste? Where's the fraud? Where is it? [00:03:50] So was the protest successful? Fall. If anything, it definitely made a statement. Over 2000 protests, which were largely peaceful, were scheduled across all 50 states. And according to data analysts, it may have been the biggest day [00:04:06] of demonstrations in US history. According to data analyst G. Elliott Morris, as of midnight on Sunday, June 15th, we have data from about 40% of No Kings Day events held yesterday, accounting for over 2.6 million attendees, according to our back of the envelope [00:04:26] math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4 to 6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2 to 1.8% of the US population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday. Now, Trump tried to play it cool last week. [00:04:43] Take a look. What do they got? No king, no kings. I don't feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. A king would say, I'm not gonna get this. King would have never had the California mandate to even be talking to him. He wouldn't have to call up mike Johnson and Thune and say, [00:05:01] fellas, you got to pull this off. And after years, we get it done. No, no, we're not a king. We're not a king at all. Thank you very much. But it's safe to say this was a massive hit to Trump's ego, especially when you look at his parades attendance. [00:05:17] You can see the comparison here all the way down. I don't know if you could see it. It's so small, 250,000 maybe at best. We'll get into that in the next block. But 4 to 6 million and likely much more for the no. [00:05:34] King's Day parade. Now, Trump's communications director, Steven Chung, made the claim that 250,000 people were present. But MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard, who was present, claims there were far fewer people there. [00:05:50] Hours after the protests took place, however, Trump took to Truth Social and ordered ice to hit harder in Democratic run cities, posting every day. The brave men and women of Ice are subjected to violence, harassment and even [00:06:06] threats from radical Democrat politicians. But nothing will stop us from executing our mission and fulfilling our mandate to the American people. Ice officers are here with ordered by notice of this truth, to do all in their [00:06:23] power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest mass deportation program in history. We must expand efforts to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, [00:06:40] where millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside there and other such cities are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use illegal aliens to expand their voter base, cheat in elections, and grow the welfare state. These radical left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our country, and [00:07:01] actually want to destroy our inner cities. And they are doing a good job of it. There is something wrong with them. Now, Jake, there is a lot here. I'd love to hear your thoughts, but maybe my first question is, do you think Trump wrote the word herewith? [00:07:18] Yeah, that's less likely. Okay, I like that bit of investigative reporting you figure you did there to figure out that maybe Trump didn't write that. Exactly. So. All right, first of all, I, I overall, I love protests, I've organized, [00:07:33] I don't know, a dozen protests. I think what the civil rights movement did was perfect and beautiful. I believe in civil disobedience. So I do get frustrated with two things that sometimes happen at protests that, thank God, didn't happen here at all. Okay, so number one is sometimes when people that are not being productive [00:07:52] go and burn Waymo's or American flags or something. Don't don't don't, don't. We want America to be on our side. We don't want America to be against us. Don't help Trump by putting out a bad image of all the protesters with [00:08:08] bad actions from just a couple of people. So in this case, they didn't. It was beautiful. It was peaceful. It was America showing up and going, we don't want this. We don't want Marines in the streets of our American cities. We don't want Donald Trump, you know, trying to violate the Constitution [00:08:24] at every turn, etc.. So amazing. Number two is I get a little frustrated these days that people don't get a step two. You come to a protest? Yes. But how are we actually going to get Trump out of power? Right. But in this case, I think that there was two things that made it powerful. [00:08:40] One is, look, just as always, the reason why I like protests is it shows camaraderie. We all these Americans, 4 to 6 million Americans showing up in big cities, small towns. And that's powerful. We covered the military parade and the protests on The [00:08:56] Young Turks live on Saturday. I did, I co-hosted with Ben Cohen from Ben and Jerry's, and then we had a bunch of experts on. By the way, do you should check out Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson interview in the middle of that coverage. It was haunting about his time as chief of staff to Colin Powell, and how there's [00:09:12] a small group of people in this country who are always pushing for war. And so check if you're a member, you can check it out any time. And I think we've got those interviews up on the conversation, which is another channel that the Young Turks have. [00:09:27] So but as we were doing that, the camaraderie is always great. And here I'll read one comment from one of our members that I think summarizes it well. Casey Progressive wrote in yes, it had an impact. If nothing else, it was a morale boost of our community. [00:09:43] I know personally it was powerful to see how many of us or in my community, and we are far more than they think. So especially in those small towns. So that was perfect. And I thank you for participating and for seeing that. And, and by the way, you could become a member to join the members, [00:09:59] do the shows with us, or you could hit the join button below on YouTube. Okay. So Ojeda also joined us, Richard Ojeda on rebel headquarters, but he's also running in North Carolina nine. He's part of the rebellion pack. He's joined the rebellion. And he talked about how in Fayetteville, North Carolina, there was 500 people [00:10:16] that showed up in this tiny little town. So that kind of camaraderie is great. Number two is in this case, it was on the same day as the military parade. So as goofball Trump is doing, is playing with his toy soldiers and tanks and and trying to show himself, oh, I'm the big guy. [00:10:33] And by the way, the Washington looked like it was occupied and especially as a war was starting in the Middle East again. It looked terrible. We'll talk more about that later in the show. And then meanwhile, you had all these millions of Americans showing up saying, we don't want it. We don't want the militarization. We don't want it inside the country. [00:10:51] We don't want the wars outside the country. We don't want you to violate the Constitution. Perfect. So that's I'm curious what what the audience that's watching live the show live 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern every day. The poll was, do you think the No Kings protests had an impact? [00:11:07] Let's take a look. 75%. Yes, 25%. No. I get the 25%. I get people get frustrated protests. Then what do we do? Right. But the protest itself today was part of the action of showing the juxtaposition between Trump's militarism and actual Americans, saying, [00:11:23] we don't want that kind of militarism. That's not America. Right. And and to me, when you get to the substance of it, look, we covered Tim Dillon earlier today, Jordan. And he's, you know, totally against the Iran war. [00:11:40] He voted for Trump, but he's against the Iran war. And he's like, this is not any American priority at all. But before that, he was talking about immigration. And in immigration he was like, look, if all they did was arrest criminals that were undocumented immigrants, ms13 people, human smugglers, etc., or people that just came come across [00:11:59] the border, that would be super popular. But once you start going into the middle of the country and taking people out of their high school graduations and restaurants, and then you bring in the military to do it. The American people aren't going to like that. And he's 100% right. [00:12:15] I think that he's right on both of those counts. And so I know not only will the American people not like it. So if you ask me my opinion, oh, I hate it. The Marines do not belong in American cities. They are for fighting foreign enemies. They are trained to kill foreign enemies. [00:12:30] Having them arrest people as they did in LA and be involved in the streets here. We're going to have Marines in the streets everywhere. I mean, especially as Israel wants to drag us into another war. Oh, hey. Conveniently, we now have military in the streets of the major cities. So if anyone objects to Trump or to Israel, easier to round them up. [00:12:49] No, no, I hate all of it. I don't want it. We don't need it. It's nonsense. So I love that they did this protest. I'm so glad you mentioned about the step two. That's immediately where my mind went that day and through the rest of the weekend. [00:13:06] So I'll give you kind of what I saw. So in LA, of course, we had this massive protest downtown and like you were saying, it was peaceful after the fact. There were people still hanging around. And there was this incredible moment on MSNBC where Jacob Soboroff is saying, [00:13:22] yes, it has been 100% peaceful. Within 30s, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department started firing. Less lethal. This whole conversation around that for another day. Into the crowd. And you saw from there things were escalated. [00:13:38] It was almost like perfect timing and him reminding the viewers everything was peaceful to law enforcement escalating. And I really want to stress this happens all the time. So when you see people reacting or throwing things, it's important to understand where so many of the times that's how things originate, [00:13:57] especially here on step two, it's yes. What does it look like from there? I would hope that new connections were formed. I would hope that this empowers people and inspires people to participate, to get involved and to remain involved going forward. [00:14:12] And what does that look like? So I'm telling you, I was thinking about this all weekend. I have a video over on the The Insurgents YouTube channel for my podcast, where I laid out what I've seen in my own community, what in my own neighborhood, people have established a rapid response network. So if Ice comes to our neighborhood, which seems inevitable at this point, there are [00:14:31] people who are volunteering to show up. There are community events that happen weekly that they're volunteering to stand guard and protect the street vendors. And even on Sunday night, I'd say over a thousand people gathered in Highland Park waving their signs, beeping their horns, as traffic went by to remind people, [00:14:51] hey, we're all in this together. And if you are undocumented and if you are in peril, you could be next. We've got your back. We're going to look out for you. It's going to take more than that. And I would encourage everyone to, if you're not here and if you're not [00:15:06] even in one of those Democratic cities that they're going after, start to build that infrastructure proactively before Ice and DHS comes to your town. So when they single out these towns New York, Chicago, LA, they're doing it to drive a political narrative. But if you look at the data. [00:15:22] Pew research did a study and they published it in 2024, relying on data from 2022 that showed where undocumented people live in the United States. The top two and three after California in in terms of states with the most undocumented people are Florida and Texas. [00:15:39] You don't see Trump talking about those two states because it doesn't fit their narrative. They want to go after sanctuary city laws, which just precludes local law enforcement from participating in DHS and Ice raids. That's all it is. And they use that as pretext to demonize an entire city. [00:15:58] Cities of millions of people and convey a false pretense and mislead viewers, especially in right wing media, about the realities on the ground here. What you're seeing here is inspiring and what you're going to see in Chicago when things get amped up there and in New York are going to be similar. [00:16:14] People don't want federal agents and Marines in the National Guard coming in and ripping people off the streets and sending them to God knows where. We don't have they don't have due process in these situations. It is invasive. It is scary. It can be dangerous at times. [00:16:30] So I would encourage all of you to proactively start to organize in your community for when Ice eventually comes to your town. Yeah, so I want to build on that a little bit. First on the protesters, somebody had the, you know, a parody of the Don't Tread on Me flag. [00:16:45] I love that. Yeah. What happened to Don't Tread on Me? The Marines in streets of American cities is definitely treading on us. Okay, so, way to point that out. Look, I would say to you, if you're going to go to a protest against Trump, [00:17:01] bring as many American flags as you can. We represent Americans. We are America. This is America saying you're violating our Constitution, our laws, our traditions, our customs. Okay. So and I want to back up what Jordan said over and over again, it's either the [00:17:18] local police or when this first started in LA ice that starts the hostilities. I started all of this on day one by throwing tear gas canisters and flash bang grenades into the crowd, hitting people, etc. And then people had a natural reaction to throw things back, right? [00:17:35] So they're being purposely provocative to try to find an excuse to basically attack these cities, even though, as Jordan pointed out, a lot of the undocumented immigrants are actually in red states. So when you do that, that means you're not trying to solve that problem. You're trying to create a new political problem that you solve [00:17:54] by bringing in troops to these cities and trying to occupy American cities. And then finally, I heard from a friend of mine lives in a community, that ice raided, and everybody gets word of it. [00:18:10] They start panicking, and and they start hiding, you know, nannies, cleaning ladies, etc., in their basements. Here's what Americans don't want to do. Hide people in their basements as the federal authority Gestapo looks [00:18:28] for them in the middle of the country. They don't want that. Here's another thing Americans don't want Marines and and US military in the streets of America. Here's a third thing. Americans don't want this war in Iran. Okay, so here's my prediction. [00:18:44] Trump's poll numbers are going to drop and they're going to drop precipitously. Not a little bit, but a lot. Because as you see all these things happening over the course of about a week, I think Americans are beginning to get an very unsettled feeling [00:19:03] in the pit of their stomach. There's something wrong here. Way too much military. Military parade. Military attacking their own citizens in the streets. And now war in the Middle East. Now, this was exactly what we didn't vote for. [00:19:21] The left didn't want it, by the way. The right didn't want a lot of this originally. I mean, they I know they love attacking immigrants. No question that a big portion of the right loves that right. But they didn't vote for the war. That's clear. And I. Hey, MAGA, if you voted for Marines [00:19:37] in the streets, don't ever warn us about tyrannical government again. Because what would tyrannical government do first to control the population? They would put the military in the streets. Literally. Every banana republic that has a dictator. [00:19:54] That's step one. So here we are, right in the beginning of the Trump administration, and he immediately goes to step one. No, no, this is unsettling. And he will pay a heavy political price for this. If you enjoyed this video that's because of our members. [00:20:10] They make us independent. They make us strong and they make us honest. Become a member today by hitting the join button below.