Ben Rhodes

There was a lot of attention this weekend to the No Kings protest that happened near the president's weird, like, gilded Florida palace where he both lives and also charges strangers money to be members at his house.

Very weird.

But that Palm Beach No Kings protest in Florida was dramatic because it's the site of the president's home.

But, you know, the No Kings protests were also pretty dramatic in Miami and in Naples and in Coco and in Orlando and in Fort Lauderdale.

I mean, there were more than 120 No Kings protests across red state Florida this weekend.

One of the places where the local press reported a steep increase in participation compared to previous anti-Trump and No Kings protests was in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Look at this turnout in Hagerstown.

They got something like 3,000 people at the public square in Hagerstown on Saturday.

And in Hagerstown, the banner for their protest wasn't just No Kings, it was No Kings, No Camps.

And that's because it's just outside Hagerstown, where the Trump administration is trying to put one of their giant Trump prison camps to hold thousands of people indefinitely and without trial.

And Hagerstown has been—and the rest of Maryland has been trying as hard as they can to stop it.

So, and that led to kind of an interesting local dynamic.

In Maryland, unlike in every other state where people were just expected to go to whatever, no, King's protest was nearest to them.

In Maryland, a grassroots group called the Maryland Coalition to Stop the Camps asked people in Maryland, Maryland residents, to come from all over the state, specifically to Hagerstown, to show opposition to this particular prison camp that Trump is trying to put just outside that town.

So it was no kings, no camps in Hagerstown, Maryland.

And I gotta say, there's a piece of that story that is worth watching right now, now that Kristi Noem has been ousted as Trump's Homeland Security Secretary and this new guy, the former Oklahoma senator, Mark Wayne Mullen, is taking over.

One of the things that has emerged about these warehouse purchases they're making for the Trump prison camps

is that for some reason, the Trump administration appears to be eager to wildly overpay for these warehouses that they're buying, even before they start spending to convert them into prison camps.

So like in Salt Lake City, they paid nearly 50% more than the property appeared to be worth.

This warehouse facility was assessed at roughly $97 million.