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The No Kings Protests Have Terrified Trump

Trump is so upset about the thousands of No Kings protests happening around the country that he made up a lie that his failing midterm election rallies are bigger.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley
Oct 17, 2026

Trump has been holding his midterm election rallies in smaller venues that he has not been able to fill to capacity most of the time.

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The president has been limited to deep red states because he is so toxic that Republicans fear he will cost them elections if he appears in any battleground race.

This is what it looked like in San Franscisco where a human banner encouraged people to vote:

No Kings Kansas City:

Here is the massive crowd in Chicago:

These are just a few examples of the protests that are happening in thousands of locations, big and small, all across the nation.

No Kings is literally bigger than any president, especially any president who believes himself to be a king.

Donald Trump is being confronted with reality on this Saturday, and reality is Donald Trump’s sworn enemy, so in a pathetic carnival of sadness, desperation, that half-political and half-freak show, the president gathered the dying embers of his star power and shuffled off to red-state Kentucky to try to convince the few true believers lining up to by the snake oil that what they are seeing all around them is not real.

Trump Claims His Rallies Are Bigger Than No Kings

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