Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention

The Rachel Maddow Show

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Maddow surveys some of the many "No Kings" protests that took place in cities large and small across the United States against Donald Trump's push toward autocracy, and notes that unlike previous remarkable protest days, this one was given prominent attention by major news outlets.

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0:00.0	Thanks to it home for joining us this hour.
0:01.5	I'm really happy to have you here.
0:02.5	You know, one thing that was definitely different about this weekend's big day of protest
0:06.5	against Trump is that this time the protests got a lot of mainstream media coverage.
0:12.2	I don't know if the protests a couple of weeks ago were like a surprise to the headline
0:16.8	writers and newsrooms of America's major news outlets.
0:19.8	But for whatever reason, a couple of
0:22.0	weeks ago, that huge day of protest was really kind of played down or just underplayed somehow
0:29.2	in the mainstream press. That definitely turned around for the protest this weekend. Headline,
0:34.4	New York Times, shame protesters nationwide rally again to condemn Trump policies.
0:40.0	Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events on Saturday to speak out against
0:44.7	the president's handling of immigration, civil liberties, job cuts, and many other issues.
0:50.4	The Times front-page protest photos and protest signs like these ones, for sale, democracy, and resist, if not now, when, and arrest the kidnappers.
1:03.1	Headline, Washington Post, 50-51 protests rally small towns and big cities against Trump policies.
1:09.8	Protesters gathered in hundreds of rallies
1:11.7	across the country to denounce President Donald Trump. Washington Post and its coverage front
1:16.9	page to big crowd in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Monument, including this sign, front
1:21.5	and center, innocent until proven guilty. Headline, the Associated Press, Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington,
1:30.9	and elsewhere across the country. Elsewhere is doing a lot of work in that headline,
1:35.3	given how many protests there were. But the AP front page to this big banner outside the White
1:40.5	House fence, Trump must go now next to a sign that says free Kilmar for Kilmar
1:46.2	Abrago Garcia. Headline USA Today, nationwide hands off 50-51 protests against Trump continue for second weekend.
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