{"id":48737,"date":"2025-10-19T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48737"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:26:17","slug":"trump-calls-no-kings-protests-a-joke-i-work-my-ass-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48737","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls \u2018No Kings\u2019 protests a \u2018joke\u2019: \u2018I work my ass off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Sunday called this weekend\u2019s \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations against him a \u201cjoke\u201d and rejected suggestions that he is acting like a monarch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI\u2019m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That\u2019s all it is. I\u2019m not a king at all,\u201d Trump told reporters on Air Force One while flying back to Washington, D.C. from Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Millions of Americans gathered at \u201cNo Kings\u201d events across the country on Saturday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5562342-donald-trump-ai-video-no-kings\/\"><u>protesting Trump<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;and his administration. Roughly 2,600 demonstrations took place in all 50 states, with massive events in cities including Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump dismissed the significance of the protests on Sunday and suggested they were backed by wealthy Democratic donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a joke,\u201d Trump told reporters, when asked Sunday about the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI looked at the people \u2014 they\u2019re not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs\u2026 I guess it was paid for by [George] Soros and other radical left lunatics,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cIt looks like it was. We\u2019re checking it out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump, in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5562619-trump-no-kings-protest\/\"><u>interview taped ahead of the protests<\/u><\/a>, also rejected the idea that he was acting like a monarch, saying, \u201cThey\u2019re referring to me as a king. I\u2019m not a king,\u201d in an interview on Fox News\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5563105-trump-no-kings-protests\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2002on Sunday called this weekend\u2019s \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations against him a \u201cjoke\u201d and rejected suggestions that he is acting like a monarch. \u201cI\u2019m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That\u2019s all it is. I\u2019m not a king at all,\u201d Trump told reporters on Air Force One while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8868,2521,1230],"class_list":["post-48737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-kings","tag-no","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48740,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48737\/revisions\/48740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}