Trump Gets Torched by No Kings Speeches He Feared Most

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The crowd sizes, the speeches, this is what Donald Trump feared the most.

The no-kings protests, even bigger than expected.

We're waiting for a final tally, but it is tens of millions of people.

The biggest day of mass mobilization in the history of the United States.

And these speeches that took place in Washington, D.C.

and across the country in front of massive crowds, it's what Donald Trump feared the most, excoriating peaceful protests.

I want to show you what was going down.

Senator Bernie Sanders gave a particularly riveting speech, and here's the moment where he said: everybody remember this date, October 18th, 2025, the day that America had the biggest mass mobilization, peaceful protest

in our history.

Here, play this clip.

October 18th, 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history.

And just so we bring the receipts, because you know that's what we do at Midas Dutch, and I'm going to show you more of these incredible speeches.

Let me show you Boston.

Play the clip.

Look at this.

Millions of people across the country marching as we speak against the policies of President Trump.

This is Boston.

Look at that.

We'll continue to follow these rallies throughout the day here on MSNBC.

Wow.

All right, coming up.

All right.

Let me show you Chicago.

You'll hear their Mayor Brandon Johnson firing up the crowd in the background.

Here's Chicago.

Let's play it.

I know what it's like to come home when you are five years old and your dad is not there

and I am still standing.

Well, are you all ready to defend this democracy?

Are you ready to fight fascism?

Are you prepared to destroy authoritarianism once and for all?

Well, let the world hear you.

No keys.

Okay, let's talk about New York City.

Play this clip.

And let me show you what this scene looked like in Washington, D.C.

Just for scale and scope, let's play the clip right here.

All right, back to the speeches.

Senator Bernie Sanders right here says, look,

hey, Republican colleagues, I know you're taking yet another vacation.

I've got a message for you.

Here, play this clip.

So today, right now, I say to my Republican colleagues, come back from your month-long vacation.

Start negotiating and do not allow the American health care system to be destroyed and this shutdown.

Then we heard from Senator Murphy who says, can you handle the truth?

Let's play this clip.

All right.

Now, recently, when I gave this warning that we are in the middle of that totalitarian takeover, one of my colleagues said, well, you know, be careful.

You don't want to scare scare people, but you guys can handle the truth, right?

You guys deserve the truth, right?

The truth is that Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America.

The truth is that he is enacting a detailed step-by-step plan to try to destroy all of the things that protect our democracy, free speech, fair elections, an independent press, the right to peacefully protest.

But the truth is also this.

He has not won yet.

The people still rule in this country.

And today,

and today, all across America, in numbers that may eclipse any day of protest in our nation's history, Americans are saying loudly and proudly that we are a free people.

We are not a people that can be ruled.

Our government is not for sale.

No kids!

No peace!

keys!

No peace!

Now!

Media-san gave a great speech.

Perhaps my favorite speech was Media-san's speech, to be honest, though they were all very, very good.

And Senator Sanders and Murphy's speech was really good.

He said, Look, I'm not going to sit back while this country is taken over by some dude in home alone, some failed business person, some sexual abuser, some felon.

Here, play this clip.

I'm here because I love this country.

I love America.

I love the First Amendment.

I love our democracy.

I love our diversity.

Yes, our diversity.

And I am not willing to sit back and watch our glorious American multiracial, multicultural, democratic experiment, our constitutional republic, destroyed by the guy from Home Alone 2.

Not going to do it.

And here's what Madi Hassan also had to say about Donald Trump claiming that he'd made peace in the Middle East when that's not the case.

He just went to see the Egyptian president Sisi, who is a military dictator, runs one of the most repressive regimes on earth.

And he went there and he said, I want to praise your fantastic leadership and your low crime rates.

This is who he loves.

This is the autocratic leader he aspires to be.

And of course, he was in Egypt hailing his Gaza peace plan, which is a ceasefire, yes, but not a peace plan.

Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom, no plan for Palestinian statehood, no plan for justice for the Palestinians who have been massacred and starved and genocided and ethnically cleansed for the past two years, including the past nine months of his presidency.

Meanwhile, Israel for the past week has violated the ceasefire again and again, killing Palestinians with impunity.

Yesterday they killed seven Palestinian children during a ceasefire.

There is no peace in the Middle East because as Dr.

King said, peace is not just the absence of violence, it is the presence of justice.

So these are dark times.

Genocide abroad, fascism at home.

Which is why it's so crucial that we gather, we organize, we rally like this.

We mobilize, we pluralize, we bring people into the tent, we register voters, we defend voters, we become voters if we're not already.

And here Media San says, let me tell you, though, the great irony of this all.

Trump has married immigrants.

He's the son of an immigrant and he says, I'll let him do the joke, but he goes, you know, when it comes to the women who married him who are immigrants, you see, they do the jobs that Americans don't want.

Here, play this clip.

The great irony is, of course, that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant, the grandson of an an immigrant, and married to an immigrant.

In fact, two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

And then Media San has a message to every Republican and quote-unquote conservative watching here play this clip.

And you know, they say we don't reach out to the other side.

We don't reach out to conservatives or Republicans, That we're in an echo chamber.

Well, let me say to every Republican and conservative watching, aren't you the ones who said no more big government, no tyranny in America?

So if you believe that, what are you doing defending?

Masked federal agents in unmarked cars, bundling people off of the streets, including American citizens, and disappearing them?

How are you okay with that?

And if you're not okay with with it, then come over to our side.

The side of the Democrats.

The small D Democrats, not the big D Democrats, not the Democratic Party.

Those of us who are from all parties and none.

But those of us who care about saving America so that we can get to our 250th birthday and still be free when we reach 250 years.

Come over to our side.

The side of no crowns, no thrones, no kings the side of freedom of liberty of the constitution the first amendment the fourth amendment the 14th amendment the 22nd amendment which says two terms means two terms

and if you're not worried about donald trump trying to stay on for a third term you should be he's literally selling merch So I worry about free and fair elections in 2028.

But then I say, why should I worry?

I see all of you here today.

What is there to worry about?

We here today are not spectators.

We are citizens.

We are not bystanders.

We are proud and patriotic Americans.

And we Americans, we the people, will not allow our country to be taken over by demagogues and dictators.

We will not stand for it.

One of the interesting things that I was looking at too was to try to see the coverage of this.

How's right-wing media reporting on it?

How's left-wing media reporting on it?

How's the center reporting on it?

even though those labels may not be all that accurate you know today far right-wing extremism and sometimes even the center's kind of trump propagandy but let's take a look right here the anti-trump no kings rallies begin in thousands of u.s city cities you see right here that most of the coverage coming from the left and the center only 20 of coverage of no kings protest is coming from right-wing sources but when you look at what right-wing sources are talking about it's all of like donald trump's like talking points like pro-terrorists pro-terrorists pro-hamas and not what's actually happening these joyous peaceful protest celebrations that you're seeing right there i i just want to say this though it's you because i always get asked the question ben how do you make these videos what news sources do you use well i stay up to date on the news using something called ground news it's a subscriber funded app and news site and every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story and then show you what's the right reporting what's the left reporting what's the the center reporting.

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All right, back to our clips.

Here's what Bill Nye had to say at the speech.

Let's play it.

I remember well, the Vietnam War.

The mall was shoulder to shoulder, much as it is today.

Traffic stopped citywide.

The protest movement expanded.

There were protests around the country and the war was ended.

We are protesting in the same fashion today.

Only today

the stakes are higher.

Rather than abandoning a war against an elusive, perhaps sometimes imaginary foe, we are confronting the possible end of our republic.

We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong.

They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants.

No thrones,

no crowns,

no kings.

Here's our friend Randy Weingarten, who leads the American Federation of Teachers.

Powerful words here.

Play this clip.

democracy and say no kings.

And what I've just been told, that in New York City, there are more people in Times Square than there are on New Year's Eve.

And of course, our friend Leah Greenberg, who's the co-executive director, along with Ezra Levin, who happens to be her husband,

of Indivisible, our friends at Indivisible, who we've been live streaming all day with.

Shout out Indivisible.

Shout out 5051.

Shout out to Move On.

Shout out to all the organizations who have been involved in putting on this.

And everybody, the chapters, the unions, you're all the true heroes today.

Play this clip.

And the greatest danger we face is not Trump.

It is how we, as a society, respond to this bullying, to this chilling effect.

If we preemptively obey, if we shrink back, if we make ourselves small, if we do what they want in advance.

Now we saw, we saw them try this play this week.

Mike Johnson, Stephen Miller, their cronies on Fox News.

They have spent the last week on the attack against no kings, smearing all of us,

smearing all of us as anti-American.

They tried to scare us out of gathering here today.

And I've got a question for you.

Are we afraid?

No!

Did they scare us off?

No!

Are we going to back down now?

No!

That's right, because what we are doing here today is as American as apple pie.

We are standing up for our rights.

We are standing up for our neighbors.

We are here because we understand.

We are here because we understand that when a tyrant threatens your right to free free speech, you call his bluff and you stand up.

Here's more from Bernie Sanders talking about the danger when we have a president who grossly violates the Constitution.

Play this clip.

It throughout our country and rips up union contracts that workers have fought for and won.

It is in danger when we have a president who grossly violates the Constitution by accepting gifts from foreign leaders,

including a $400 million plane from the royal family of CutUp,

and then allows that family to build an Air Force facility in Idaho.

Senator Sanders talks about the notices his constituents are getting.

Let me cut to the chase and tell you exactly what this shutdown is all about.

As a result of Trump's big, beautiful, disgraceful bill,

which made massive cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act,

15

million,

15 million low-income and working-class Americans are going to lose the health care they desperately need to stay alive.

And my friends, studies suggest that when you throw those 15 million people off of the health care they presently have,

50,000 of them will die unnecessarily every single year.

50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every single year.

But that's not all.

As a result of that same terrible piece of legislation, over 20 million Americans are going to see on average a doubling of their health insurance premiums through the Affordable Care Act.

In my state of Vermont, just the other day, people received notices from insurance companies that their health care premiums in some cases would triple or quadruple.

And that is going on all over the country.

At a time when we already pay by far the highest prices in the world for health care, millions of Americans are going to to see outrageous increases in their health care premiums, which they cannot afford.

And why is that happening?

Why are the Republicans making a broken health care system, a dysfunctional health care system, even worse?

Why are they bringing our health care system to the verge of collapse?

We all know the answer.

We all know the answer.

It was to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to Mr.

Musk, Mr.

Bezos, Mr.

Zuckerberg, Mr.

Ellison, and the rest of the 1%.

Media San here is talking about how even the king in the UK doesn't have as much gold as Trump's putting in the White House.

Play this clip.

I immigrated here from the United Kingdom.

You want to talk about no kings?

The UK still has a king, King Charles III.

But even he has less gold in his palace than Donald Trump has in the Oval Office right now.

Even King Charles has more respect for democratic norms and traditions than the whiny authoritarian manchild trying to send troops into as many blue cities as he can.

This is a senator Sanders says how you're gonna pay for these ideas let me be very let me make this very simple.

How you're going to pay for it here.

Play this, Clint.

Let me raise a question that I have been asked over and over again.

You know, Bernie, great ideas, but how are you going to pay for them?

Great question.

Thanks for asking.

And here is the answer.

At a time when the wealthiest people in America have never ever had it so good.

At a time when billionaires are paying an effective tax rate lower than a truck driver or a nurse,

yes, the top 1%

and large profitable corporations will pay their fair share in taxes.

Medi Hassan talks about how these MAGAs are just whining all the time and how you can't even make it through a single day without them whining about a late-night comedian.

Here, play this clip

all week I've heard Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican members of Congress say that this rally

the no kings rally is a hate rally

a hate rally

the people who can't get through a single day without hating on late night comedians and overweight soldiers and Muslim politicians and Mexican immigrants and Palestinian refugees and black women women and transgender kids and peaceful protesters and Mr.

Freaking Potato Head, they are lecturing us on hate.

Really?

I'm not here out of hate.

I'm here out of love.

I'm here because I love this country.

I love America.

I love the First Amendment.

I love our democracy.

I love our diversity.

Yes, our diversity.

And I am not willing to sit back and watch our glorious American multiracial, multicultural, democratic experiment, our constitutional republic, destroyed by the guy from Home Alone 2.

Not going to do it.

Because I did not inherit America.

I did not inherit America.

I chose America.

I wasn't born here.

I immigrated here.

And we immigrants, we love this country often more than the people who are born here because

we chose to move here, live here, swear an oath to the Constitution here, an oath

that the guy down the street violates every morning and every night.

And then I think Senator Murphy puts this into perfect perspective, that we're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover.

We're in the middle of one, but we have the power to stop it.

And we showed that today.

Here, play this Clem.

And I'm here today to share with you some unsurprising news.

We are not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover.

We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover.

But Trump has not won.

Our democracy is in peril, but it can be saved.

But no one's riding to our rescue.

And I just want to be clear with you about that today.

No one's riding to our rescue.

There aren't establishment responsible Republicans that are riding to our rescue.

The mainstream media isn't riding to our rescue.

There's no oligarchs riding to our rescue.

It is up to us to save us.

There you have it, folks.

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