“Hands Off”, your hands down: it is the slogan of the largest anti-trump and anti-musk protest in the USA and in the world since The Donald has returned to the White House. In the 50 US states and Washington were organized over 1200 events, while various forms of dispute have been staged in various foreign countries, From Canada to Mexico, from Germany to France, from Great Britain to Portugal and Italy, with initiatives, among other things in London, Paris, Rome. The protests have touched various American cities, from New York to Boston, from San Francisco to Portland. But the epicenter was Washington, where thousands of activists – as the Ansa on the spot – gathered on the National Mall under Washington Monument, a stone’s throw from the White House. A colorful crowd of all ages and with original slogans, as if after a long time the lost people dem had found strength and creativity for the “resistance”, as stated in one of the signs in the shade of the obelisk.
“Wake Up and Smell the Coup” (wake up and feel the smell of the coup), “Trump Golfs While USA Burns” (Trump plays golf while the US burns), “aren’t you tariff?” (Are you not subject to duties?) Are some of the slogans. Many admonish to “keep your hands down” from democracy, from health and healthy. Trump and Musk, painted in the signs like two Nazis. So far in the USA the disputes have been isolated and of minor tone, but anger is growing after the indiscriminate cuts to public spending, the narrow on rights and freedoms, as well as the duties that – according to many economists – risk increasing the cost of living. Moves that this week precipitated the president of the president to 43%, the lowest percentage from his settlement. Thousands of activists have arrived on the Mall, downloaded from dozens of buses from various American states. Various Dem parliamentarians also present, who hold mini rallies: jAmie Raskin, Maxwell Frost and Ilhan Omar. “This is configuring itself as the greatest protest of a single day in the last years of American history,” said Ezra Levin, founder of Indivisible, one of the groups that has planned the event. The president’s authoritarian agenda, supported by an oligarchy of billionaires.
“This – he added – is a huge event that is sending a very clear message to Trump, Musk, to the Republicans to the congress and all the allies of the Maga Movement: we do not want them to put their hands on our democracy, on our communities, our schools, our friends and our neighbors”. “This is a national mobilization to stop the most brazen power of modern history,” explained the organizers. “Trump, Musk and their billionaires are orchestrating a total assault on our government, our economy and to our fundamental rights, facilitated by the congress at every step of the path”. “They want to pieces America, closing the social security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections and guting through Medicaid, all to finance their billionaire tax scam,” they accused, referring to the maxi cuts in the taxes of the first Trump presidency that now the Tycoon wants to extend.
«They are delivering the money of our taxes, our public services and our ultra-round democracy. If we do not fight now, there will be nothing more to save », denounces a protester on the mall. 150 groups joined the initiative, including Human Rights Campaign, the largest support group of the LGBTQ community, Greenpeace, the Employees International Union service, a union that represents two million workers. In the capital there were also a pro-Ukraine gathering and a march in favor of Palestine and freedom of speech.