Anti-Trump protests in all 50 US states
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Also in the podcast... We remember the Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who's died at the age of 70. In contrast to his first term in office, President Trump has faced relatively little opposition since he was sworn in 76 days ago. Republicans, many Democrats, tech giants, universities and even law firms have been accused of caving in to his demands. The only real challenge has come from a handful of judges. But on Saturday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets across America to voice their anger at the way the country is heading.
Donald Trump, you liar! We set your ass on fire!
The so-called hands-off events were organised in every congressional district, with protesters criticising the doge cuts, Donald Trump's economic policy and what some see as a slide towards authoritarianism. These protesters are among those concerned that America's democracy is at risk.
Der Stockmarkt fängt an zu crashen, die Wirtschaft fängt an zu crashen, es fängt bereits an zu crashen und es geht um Trump. Seine Aktionen, seine Blödsinnigkeit, seine Fehler. Eines meiner größten Sorgen ist, wie viel Unwissenheit sie im Publikum verbreiten, dass die Basis-Science und die Basis-Fakten, auf die unsere Demokratie abhängt, zerbrochen werden. Und wenn das passiert, werden die Menschen verletzt.
What are the implications of Trump's economic policies?
For his part, President Trump took to social media to call on Americans to hang tough in the face of the turmoil caused by his sweeping import tariffs. And he still has plenty of support from the likes of Brian Panabeka, a retired autoworker from Michigan.
We've endured this pain in the United States for 30 or 40 years of seeing our factories close. So we can certainly endure two or three years of economic pain while the supply chains are reorganized and the companies move their production lines back to the United States. I couldn't give a rat's rear end about the stock markets. I personally believe they were overvalued and correction was in order.
Our North America correspondent Peter Bose followed the day's developments from Washington.
These protests were widespread, more than a thousand individual demonstrations across the country. That is significant, the biggest single day of protests since Donald Trump returned to the White House. Perhaps surprising to some that it's taken so long, given this country is still so polarized in terms of the nature of politics here, so long that it's taken for large groups of people to get together and take to the streets to express their anger in this way. But they were protesting about many different policies, the executive orders, the widespread sacking of federal workers, the breaking up of the Department of Education and more. And I think today was simply an opportunity to vent about all of that, as well as the president's most recently and of course arguably biggest bombshell since he took office.
And that is the sweeping tariffs that have been brought in on the import of goods into the US.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What sparked the anti-Trump protests across the US?
1:05
2
Who is Markus Persson and why is he significant?
0:38–3:11
3
What are the implications of Trump's economic policies?
3:11–6:02
4
How does Cambodia's trade policy relate to US tariffs?
6:02–9:47
5
What controversy surrounds Israel's actions in Gaza?
9:47–14:33
6
Who was Amadou Bagayoko and what was his impact on music?
14:33–19:10
7
Why is jazz compelling according to Branford Marsalis?
19:10–35:42
Speakers
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