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CLEVELAND, Ohio- "No Kings" rallies and marches were held in Washington, D.C. and across the country on Sat., June 14, 2025 to protest President Donald Trump's policy agenda, nationwide events that coincided with the president's $45 million military parade held in D.C. Saturday evening. It was notably the president's 79th birthday.

The president's parade is to commemorate 250 years of service by the U.S. Army and to showcase the military, though his critics say he is merely grandstanding and wasting taxpayer money for unnecessary events.

Hundreds of “No Kings” demonstrations were planned in all 50 states, some 16 of them in Northeast Ohio. All of them were designed to protest what opponents say is Trump's authoritarianism and harassment of immigrants, and his overreaching executive orders that Congressional Democrats say are politically motivated, anti-democratic, and ludicrous at best.

Northeast Ohio had "No Kings" rallies in several cities Saturday, including Cleveland, Chagrin Falls, Parma, Pepper Pike, and Akron.

Thousands turned out to the "No Kings" events throughout the country, which were culminated following a series of anti-Trump protests in recent weeks or months that have drawn large crowds, including a nationwide "Unite and Resist" protest on March 8 for International Women's Day. (Note: Cleveland's March 8 "Unite and Resist" rally and march drew roughly 2,000 people to Market Square Park and was organized by Women's March Cleveland, the largest grassroots women's rights group in Northeast Ohio).

At Cleveland's "No Kings" rally and march on Saturday afternoon, which was held at the Free Stamp at Willard Park next to City Hall and organized by Cuyahoga County Democratic Party operatives, energized protesters carried anti-Trump and "No Kings" signs as speaker after speaker criticised the president on issues ranging from DEI, healthcare, education, immigration, social security and federal workers, to Medicaid, SNAP benefits, and a litany of other measures.

Kathy Wray Coleman is a longtime Cleveland journalist, blogger, digital and social media reporter, and seasoned investigative reporter

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