Big Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk Protests Around the Country

The resistance is back. Liberals put together some large protests over the weekend in several cities around the country. There are claims that as many as 600,000 people participated but that’s really just a guess.

Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump’s agenda. Rallies were planned in all 50 states, and images posted on social media showed dense crowds in places as diverse as St. Augustine, Fla.; Salt Lake City and rainy Frankfort, Ky…

While crowd sizes are difficult to estimate, organizers said that more than 600,000 people had signed up to participate and that events also took place in U.S. territories and a dozen locations across the globe.

On Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the protest stretched for nearly 20 blocks. In Chicago, thousands flooded Daley Plaza and adjacent streets, while, in the nation’s capital, tens of thousands surrounded the Washington Monument. In Atlanta, the police estimated the crowd marching to the gold-domed statehouse at over 20,000.

These were dubbed the “Hands Off” protests which is a name that suggests they don’t represent anything in particular beyond rejection of Trump and Musk, i.e. the people currently cutting the size of government. Let’s take a look at some images and video. First up here’s New York City. This person is estimating 100,000 people which seems really high to me, but it’s definitely a large crowd.

Just an incredible view of 100,000+ Americans showing up and speaking out at the Hands Off! Protest in New York City. pic.twitter.com/g7yl43m9bE

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 5, 2025

This person puts the estimate at 10,000 people.

NOW: Reports that up to 10,000 protesters are marching down Fifth Avenue in New York City as the #HandsOff2025 march l continues in Manhattan.

Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2
[email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/CPpybnbAHc

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 5, 2025

Another overhead view:

Thousands rally in ‘Hands Off’ protests against Trump policies in New York@anadoluagency pic.twitter.com/oIIciC42Fq

— L. Vural Elibol (@vuralelibol) April 5, 2025

It’s a lot of people but the crowd isn’t that dense in many places. At this level of density 1,000 people would take up a lot of space on the street.

Some signs at the #HandsOff protest in NYC:

“Worst government money can buy”

“You can’t spell felon without Elon”

“Feck this shite” pic.twitter.com/RZKJP3unyX

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen (@jackiefmogensen) April 5, 2025

Moving on, there was a big protest in Chicago with several thousand people.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE protest is taking place in downtown Chicago for the “Hands Off!” movement against Elon Musk and Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/NVEiTFi8Iy

— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) April 5, 2025

And in Boston:

HAPPENING NOW: An aerial view of the MASSIVE protest today in Boston, MA for the “Hands Off!” movement against Elon Musk and Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/0OZgQ2HfHW

— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) April 5, 2025

And of course in San Francisco.

An amazing photo at a protest rally in San Francisco of the “Hands off” Wonder what Trump and Elon Musk are thinking now?? pic.twitter.com/EWKDRTbLpf

— errolsam (@errolsam) April 7, 2025

It looks like there were at least half-a-dozen protests in the Bay Area, each of them more modest in size.

Thousands of people across the Bay Area are rallying Saturday in protest of recent actions by the Trump Administration. They are participating in the “Hands Off!” rallies taking place across the country.

Video above shows protests happening in San Francisco, Livermore, Berkeley,… pic.twitter.com/W3YGxSjdv2

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) April 5, 2025

The protests in LA seem smaller than expected. This report puts the crowd size at (maybe) 7,000 which isn’t that large for a county of 10 million people.

Thousands of opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to join the national “Hands Off!” protest against the administration’s actions on government (cont) https://t.co/BvK33dmRZm pic.twitter.com/021iuS5ZUS

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 6, 2025

Salt Lake City, UT:

Salt Lake City Hands Off Protests.

Thousands chanting “Deport Musk”#HandsOff pic.twitter.com/yXoic5Hh7X

— Travis Matthew (@Matthewtravis08) April 6, 2025

San Diego, CA:

#SanDiego showing up for #HandsOff!
Photo Credit: Dave Engel pic.twitter.com/goYkJnPBX0

— Marthatopia (@sullivanms) April 5, 2025

Austin, TX:

#Handsoff #Handsoff2025

Austin, TX showed up with a historical crowd. Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Elon Musk.

Protect the separation of powers. Resist tyranny. pic.twitter.com/pBuA8522hS

— LOx DENINo (@Lox_Denino) April 5, 2025

Rep. Jayapal claimed there were 27,000 people in Seattle (7,000 people had signed up to attend, so the real number is much lower than 27,000):

Yesterday’s #HandsOff rallies were such a powerful display of resistance!! More than 27,000 people turned out in Seattle and it was so fantastic to join each of them in this moment and this larger movement! pic.twitter.com/LKvT3AlCOa

— Pramila Jayapal (@PramilaJayapal) April 7, 2025

Portland, OR:

Another look at the “Hands Off” protest in Portland, OR. All the characters came out in full force this weekend. pic.twitter.com/1h4mqS1Go8

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) April 7, 2025

Raleigh, NC:

#HandsOff Raleigh Fights Back! Thousands flooded the streets of North Carolina’s capital city, with NC Poor People’s Campaign leaders and members on the stage and in the crowd. pic.twitter.com/1P5J28O2jX

— North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign (@NC_PPC) April 5, 2025

Louisville, KY:

Huge crowd before we have even started! #HandsOff pic.twitter.com/eLiLrgeGtL

— Louisville Democratic Party (@LouKYDemParty) April 5, 2025

Philadelphia, PA:

Scenes from the massive #HandsOff Philadelphia protest against the Trump regime. pic.twitter.com/0hNQPuA2BW

— Paul Altobelli (@paulaltobelli) April 5, 2025

Cincinnati, OH:

Pretty big crowd here at Washington Park for Cincinnati’s Hands Off protest against the Trump administration pic.twitter.com/piQQ4gagXN

— Nick Swartsell (@nswartsell) April 5, 2025

Miami, FL:

Hundreds of participants showing up at the HANDS OFF demonstration against the Musk-Trump regime —and their Republican enablers — in downtown Miami.
RESIST! pic.twitter.com/PzUaYRHWis

— Dr. Raul Hernandez (@RaulEHernandez6) April 5, 2025

Some smaller cities had protests of a few hundred. Here’s Pasadena, CA:

Hundreds join a #HandsOff protest in downtown Pasadena CA. pic.twitter.com/24P0GANiXC

— John Antczak (@JohnAntczak) April 5, 2025

There are lots more but you get the idea. They did have nationwide turnout in most big blue cites and some smaller ones. New York and Boston had the best turnout but Chicago and LA had several thousand people. Supposedly there were more than 1,300 separate protests but many were fairly small.

I’m sure they were hoping for a repeat of the Women’s March, but I don’t think they got there. But this Wikipedia page claims they did, saying there were 5 million marchers Saturday nationwide. The source for that claim is an anonymous Bluesky account. I think that tells you more about the mods on Wikipedia than anything else. The total number of people signed up for these events was only about 600,000.

Nearly 600,000 people had signed up to attend the events, some of which took place in major cities like London and Paris, according to Indivisible, one of the organizations leading the movement in collaboration with a nationwide coalition that includes civil rights organizations, veterans, women’s rights groups, labor unions and LGBTQ+ advocates.

CNN has not been able to independently verify how many people attended Saturday’s demonstrations, but “Hands Off!” organizers say that “millions” of people turned up from coast to coast.

This is what we see every time the left holds these kinds of mass protests. They inflate the numbers by a factor of 10 and then claim this means they have some kind of shadow mandate to do…something? 

I think the actual number of people was probably no greater than 600,000. That’s a lot of people but it’s still only works out to less than 0.2% of the population of the US. These are the same people who voted for Kamala Harris. In other words, the people who just lost the election five months ago. They can peacefully protest all they want but it doesn’t change anything. Trump won the election and he’s still the president for the next 4 years.

Update: How many people were at that Chicago rally?

GPS—7,498 mobile devices.

Organizers are claiming 30,000. CBS states a vague ‘thousands’.

92% having attended 5 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests.

For more insight into what data we also look at in addition to GPS location data… https://t.co/DZIjtO2l2e

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) April 6, 2025