Overview
- Organizers say roughly seven million people rallied across more than 2,700 locations on October 18 to oppose what they describe as authoritarian governance.
- Trump reposted on Truth Social an AI clip originally shared by @xerias_x that depicts a crowned president piloting a jet labeled “King Trump” and dropping brown sludge on protesters to the song “Danger Zone.”
- Responding to the demonstrations, Trump called them a “joke,” described them as “very small and not effective,” and insisted, “I am not a king.”
- Kenny Loggins said the use of his recording of “Danger Zone” was unauthorized and demanded its removal, as analysts warned about normalizing synthetic media in electoral politics.
- The administration has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis, judges have curtailed orders in Chicago and Portland, and Trump threatened to send forces to San Francisco.