Ben Rhodes

There is now a 10-foot-tall golden toilet on the National Mall at the Lincoln Memorial.

It says, quote, "...a throne fit for a king."

In a time of unprecedented division, escalating conflict, and economic turmoil, President Donald Trump focused on what truly mattered—remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in the White House.

The plaque next to the 10-foot-tall gold toilet says Trump is, quote, an unwavering visionary who looked down, saw a problem, and painted it gold.

The gold toilet president this weekend was also the target of one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in American history.

Organizers say more than 8 million Americans protested against President Donald Trump this weekend.

These were the third no-kings protests against Donald Trump in 10 months.

And there were more than 3,000 separate protests all over the country, which, if I went one by one, it's too many for me to show you all in one sitting.

But, you know, the organizers in advance of this weekend's protests had said that they were noticing a little bit of a theme, sort of a trend.

They were noticing not only that there were going to be more no-kings protests against Trump in more places than there ever had been before, but they said specifically they'd noticed

kind of a red state spring happening.

More signups, more planned protests against Trump in red states.

And in places specifically, even within red states, that voted for Trump.

They had said to expect that based on what they'd seen from signups.

And then that's what happened this weekend.

Look, this is what No King's protests look like this weekend in Northern Alabama, in Huntsville, Alabama, also in Red State, Alaska, in Anchorage, in the Villages in Florida, which is the biggest retirement community in the country.

It's famously a nest of Republican votes for Republican politicians.

But this was the Villages' huge No King's anti-Trump protest this weekend.

Also, check out Jonesboro, Arkansas.

The county where Jonesboro, Arkansas is, Trump won that in 2024 by a 37-point margin.