Ben Rhodes
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Well, this was no kings in Charlotte this weekend, a really big turnout.
Lower left, that's Dallas, Texas.
Lower right, that's Columbus, Ohio.
The great state of Tennessee saw big protests for no kings.
Up in the upper left, that's Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In the upper right, that's Nashville, Tennessee.
Lower left, that's the state capital in Texas.
That's Austin, Texas.
Lower right, that big protest there is Columbia, South Carolina.
Check that out.
Here's Mississippi.
Here's Hattiesburg, Mississippi in the lower right there.
Look how big that is.
Upper left, that's Little Rock, Arkansas.
Upper right, that's Wichita, Kansas.
Lower left, that's beloved Oklahoma City.
So three times in 10 months now, we've had this big tent, peaceful protest movement against Trump, against this president trying to assume the powers of a king.
And the breadth of what people have been able to build, the geographic spread of where people are organized, the sheer number of protestsβ
at each of these just goes up and up and up.
But even in a deliberately decentralized, far-flung thing like this, where there'sβyou know, we got 50 states, but we had more than 3,300 protests.