'No Kings' protests against Trump bring a street party vibe in nation's capital

Описание: (18 Oct 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Washington - 18 October 2025
1. Various of protesters marching on the street close to the U.S. Capitol
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Sowers, protester, from Pennsylvania, veteran:
"I'm gonna be honest, I was scared to show up today. I was really debating to show up. I was like, should I go or not? The reason I'm here today is because I'm more scared about what will happen if I didn't show up."
3. Protesters marching on the street
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Reymann, protester:
"I have so many friends that are immigrants and federal workers that are afraid to be here today. I mean, in America, afraid to stand on the streets and look at the Capitol and express their views. I'm here for them."
5. Various of people marching, holding signs, band playing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Reymann, protester:
"I've been to multiple rallies in the 25 years I've lived here, always carried banners, you know, or signs, often humorous. But for the whole week I've listened to Republican leadership call me a terrorist, it's despicable. This is America. I don't… I disagree with their politics, but I don't believe that they don't love this country, right? I believe they're misguided, I think they're power hungry. But the vilification of others that this country has adopted right now is just it's sad, it's pathetic, and it's terrifying. That's why I'm here."
7. Band playing, banner reading "band tifa"
8. Band playing, people singing
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Shawn (last name not given), visitor from Colorado:
"Yeah, I'm not sure why they're protesting though. I mean fascism died with Mussolini in 1945. So we don't… the fascist party's been gone for a long time. We celebrate no kings every year on July 4th. We don't have a king. He (U.S. President Donald Trump) was democratically elected. I mean."
10. Protesters walking, holding signs
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Shawn (last name not given), visitor from Colorado:
"Obviously we don't have a king, right? Because they're here protesting. I mean a king would not let you protest, right? They wouldn't be allowed to do this at all. So no, nobody here is anti-American. A lot of American flags, I love it. We disagree. So I think that's really you know what it should be about all the time. It's like let's just agree to disagree. You, you feel one way on an issue, I feel another way, and no problem. We can still break bread, have a beer, hang out."
12. Wide of protesters

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Washington - 18 October 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont:
"Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, called these rallies 'hate America' events. Boy, does he have it wrong. Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America, we're here because we love America."
14. Wide of Sanders arriving on stage
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont:
"We will not move toward authoritarianism in America. We the people will rule."
16. Wide of stage
STORYLINE:
Protesting the direction of the country under President Donald Trump, people gathered Saturday in the nation’s capital and communities across the U.S. for “No Kings ” demonstrations — what the president's Republican Party is calling “Hate America” rallies.

They rallied with signs like “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting” or “Resist Fascism,” and in many places it looked more like a street party. T



Trump himself is spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.


From the White House to Capitol Hill, GOP leaders disparaged the rallygoers as “communists” and “Marxists."







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