More than 1,300 rallies worldwide protest Trump and Musk

Individuals are gathering in cities everywhere in the United States and globally to protest an “unlawful, billionaire energy seize” by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They’re being placed on by over 150 completely different organizations, together with civil rights teams, labor unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span greater than 1,300 areas.

Final weekend, “Tesla Takedown” protests focused Tesla showrooms across the nation to point out disapproval for Musk, its CEO, who has spearheaded an effort to hold out mass federal workforce layoffs and hole out authorities businesses. As Tesla’s gross sales have plummeted this quarter, Musk has threatened to “go after” the corporate’s critics, whereas the FBI has created a process drive to analyze particular person acts of vandalism and different actions aimed on the firm.

The scope of those protests is way broader, focusing on each Trump and Musk, who the Fingers Off web site accuses (precisely) of “shuttering Social Safety workplaces, firing important staff, eliminating shopper protections, and gutting Medicaid.” The Verge’s Mia Sato is in Manhattan’s Bryant Park in New York Metropolis, the place she took the above video. She instructed me it wasn’t clear how many individuals are there, however that it’s “wall to wall all over the place” although it’s “raining right here and actually nasty.”

My colleague Lauren Feiner, who attended the protest in Washington, DC, stated the protest there “could be very massive, 1000’s right here across the Washington monument.” She described it as “very peaceable and orderly,” with attendees listening quietly to the audio system, often chanting in response. (Organizer estimates later prompt there have been greater than 100,000 folks every at each the NYC and DC rallies.)

Jessica Toman, who went to the protest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, texted the above picture to me. An individual posting photos of the identical protest on Bluesky guessed that protesters numbered within the 1000’s.

It seems like an analogous story in Boston, the place “1000’s” are seen on this video from right now:

Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul posted aerial footage of an enormous crowd gathered on the State Capitol constructing in St. Paul, Minnesota:

Demonstrators gathered in large numbers in Daley Plaza in Chicago, Illinois, too, the place a CBS Chicago livestream confirmed what seemed like many 1000’s of individuals filling a complete avenue from one facet to the opposite for a lot of blocks. (Over 30,000 folks marched in Chicago on Saturday, in line with organizer estimates reported by WBEZ Chicago after we revealed this story). Protests are additionally happening abroad, in cities like Berlin, Germany and London, England.

It’s not simply main cities. A whole bunch seem to have proven as much as protest in cities like St. Augustine, Florida, which the US Census Bureau estimates has lower than 16,000 folks, and Riverhead, New York, the place solely about 36,000 folks stay. Vehicles honked in obvious assist of a protest in Manhattan, Kansas (below 54,000 residents), in line with the Bluesky consumer who posted this video:

The same scene performs out on this video, apparently taken in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a city of fewer than 4,000 folks, right now:

Right here’s a gallery with some extra photos taken by Sato, Toman, and The Verge’s Chris Welch:

Replace April sixth: Modified the variety of protests that had been deliberate from 1,200 to 1,300 to extra precisely replicate data from the Fingers Off! protest web site. Additionally up to date with attendance estimates for particular rallies the place related.