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  "path": "/news/1986406/anger-over-iran-war-adds-fuel-to-anti-trump-rallies-in-us",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-29T02:06:49.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON: Demonstrators decrying President Donald Trump’s policies took to city streets across the United States on Saturday in the third edition of the “No Kings” rallies that organisers hoped will be the largest single-day non-violent protest in US history.\n\nThe two previous No Kings events attracted millions of participants.\n\nSingers Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez headlined a rally at the state capitol in Minnesota, where upward of 100,000 people gathered in an area that became a flashpoint over Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and the incursion of federal immigration agents into Democratic-led urban centres.\n\nOther major rallies took place in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, but two-thirds of the events were happening outside major city centres, a nearly 40 per cent jump for smaller communities from the movement’s first mobilisation last June.\n\n“The defining story of this mobilisation is not just how many people are protesting, but where they are protesting,” said Leah Greenberg, co-founder of Indivisible, the group that started the No Kings movement last year and led planning of Saturday’s events.\n\n**Republican strongholds**\n\nWith mid-term elections later this year in the US, organisers say they have seen a surge in the number of people organising anti-Trump events and registering to participate in deeply Republican states like Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Utah.\n\nCompetitive suburban areas that have helped decide national elections are seeing “huge” surge in interest, Greenberg said, citing as examples Pennsylvania’s Bucks and Delaware counties, East Cobb and Forsyth in Georgia, and Scottsdale and Chandler in Arizona.\n\n“Voters who decide elections, the people who do the door-knocking and the voter registration and all of the work of turning protests into power, they are taking to the streets right now, and they are furious,” she said.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson in a statement dismissed the rallies as “Trump derangement therapy sessions” of interest only to journalists.\n\nIn northern Virginia, just outside Washington, several hundred people began gathering close to Arlington National Cemetery before a planned march across the Potomac River to the capital’s National Mall.\n\nSome passing drivers honked their horns in support, but others slowed down to berate the protesters.\n\n“You’re all idiots,” one man shouted from his car.\n\nJohn Ale, 57, a retired air-conditioning and heating contractor, said he drove 20 minutes from his home in Virginia to join the march.\n\n“What’s happening in this country is unsustainable,” he said. “The middle class, the little people, can’t afford to live anymore. And he (Trump) is breaking the norms, the things that made us function as a country.”\n\n**Opposition to Iran war**\n\nThe No Kings movement launched last year on Trump’s birthday, June 14, drew an estimated four to six million people across roughly 2,100 sites nationwide. The second mobilisation in October involved an estimated seven million participants in more than 2,700 cities, according to a crowd-sourcing analysis published by prominent data journalist G. Elliott Morris.\n\nThat October event was largely fuelled by a backlash against a government shutdown, an aggressive crackdown by federal immigration authorities, and the deployment of National Guard troops to major cities.\n\nSaturday’s events came amid what organisers said was a call to action against the bombardment of Iran by the US and Israel, a conflict that is now four weeks old.\n\nMorgan Taylor, 45, attended the Washington protest with her 12-year-old son, and said she was enraged by Trump’s military action in Iran, which she called a “stupid war”. “Nobody’s attacking us,” Taylor said. “We don’t need to be there.”\n\n_Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2026_",
  "title": "Anger over Iran war adds fuel to anti-Trump rallies in US"
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