Anti-Trump Protests Outweigh Supporter Rallies

Protests in the United States against President Donald Trump or the Trump administration by far outweigh rallies organized by Trump supporters. This is according to data from the Crowd Counting Consortium at Harvard University. The number of protest actions counted spiked in April as well as in June and October of 2025, the latter two dates coinciding with the coordinated, U.S.-wide No Kings rallies that the consortium says were among the largest single-day protests in U.S. history with around 5 million and 7 million participants, respectively. In January of 2026, another spike was due to the National Shutdown or ICE Out protests against the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the Trump administration's policies connected to the agency.

The CCC says that its numbers "rebut the narrative that there is 'no resistance' to the second Trump administration".

On this Saturday, another installment of the No Kings protest series that denounces authoritarian power grabs and their possibility in the U.S. under Donald Trump will take place. The event is projected to be the biggest anti-Trump protest ever as demonstrations are spreading across districts that voted for Trump in 2024 and even across the globe.

At the headline event in St. Paul, Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda will perform or speak. Across the United States, more than 3,000 separate protests are scheduled, about the same level as the October installment of the series.