The largest political rally in American history will occur across the nation Saturday, March 28, as millions of people turn out to participate in more than 3,000 No Kings events that are planned for every state in the nation and in some foreign countries.
Why are we doing it? Because we must tell Donald Trump, his Republican sycophants and the world that we are sick of this madman and we’re on the road to expelling him from our White House. The United States of America is coming back from the abyss.
Following this paragraph are a few reminders of why we must expel him, and although there is nothing new here, nothing that you haven’t read before, I hope that taking a comprehensive glimpse at some of Trump’s atrocities will encourage you to attend.
For starters, he is a mass murderer. He has ordered the murders of at least 159 helpless, innocent people in 46 strikes on boats that he says, without offering evidence, were bringing illegal drugs to America – which they almost certainly were not, and even if they were, drug running is not a capital crime.
He is an adjudicated rapist; he was convicted of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll but the trial judge said it was rape. Nearly 30 other women have publicly accused him of sexually assaulting them, including at least one woman who told the FBI he raped her when she was 13 years old. He probably has raped other children, and he certainly knew other men were raping children and did not report it. He is famous for being recorded bragging that he can grab women “by their pussies” and get away with it.
He has been convicted of 43 felonies that involve falsifying business records in the hush‑money case stemming from payments tied to the 2016 election.
He is a consummate liar. The Washington Post documented more than 3,000 lies that he told during the first time he occupied the White House, including telling an average of 19 lies a day at the end of his term, and he hasn’t let up since then. If his lips are moving, he’s probably lying.
Even though illegal entry into the United States is a civil breach, not a crime, and although a growing majority of American citizens object, Department of Homeland Security figures show that through last month Trump had caused the arrest of 397,800 undocumented immigrants, deportations of 396,400, and is holding 68,290 in crowded, unsanitary, makeshift prisons scattered around America. Several persons have died under suspicious circumstances in those prisons
His masked ICE agents, acting as his personal Gestapo, have killed at least three innocent American citizens. At least.
The House of Representatives impeached Trump in 2019 because he abused his power as president by soliciting Russia to help his re-election bid, and then he obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony. The Republican-controlled Senate exonerated him anyway.
The House impeached him for an unprecedented second time two years later for “incitement of insurrection” for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Republican-controlled Senate exonerated him again.
Trump is a coward who dodged the draft by claiming he had heel spurs, then celebrated by going skiing with his girlfriend (although he quit skiing early because she was a better skier than he was). And yet, he has no qualms about putting other people’s sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and friends in harm’s way by sending 2,500 Marines to Iran, a nation that posed no threat to us. So far, the war has killed six American servicemen, not to mention 1,400 Iranian civilians including at least 210 children, 108 of whom were killed in an American attack on an Iranian girls’ school
Economist Justin Wolfers notes that the war’s estimated cost of $1 billion a day (he’s asked Congress for another $200 billion) does not include the larger cost to the economy. The Pentagon counts only bombs, planes and personnel, Wolfers points out. It does not include higher oil prices, geopolitical strife, business uncertainty, and slower growth. Those costs will mount into hundreds of billions of dollars. In America, gasoline prices are up more than a dollar since the war began, food prices are soaring, and the Stock Market is sinking — all with no end in sight.
About that war. Robert Hubbell, author of Today’s Edition newsletter, showed that over the last week Trump achieved the political equivalent of superposition. He took every possible position regarding his war on Iran:
- It’s over; it’s not over.
- We won; but not enough.
- We’re winding down; we need $200 billion more to continue the war.
- It will be over soon; we might put “boots on the ground” soon.
- Iran’s military capability has been obliterated; we must send in the U.S. Navy to protect ships from Iran’s ongoing military attacks.
- The U.S. doesn’t need the Strait of Hormuz because we are energy independent; U.S. allies are obliged to keep the Strait open to lower U.S. gas prices.
- We obliterated the Iranian nuclear capability in June of 2025; the U.S attacked in March because Iran was a week away from using a nuclear weapon against the U.S.
- The increase in gas prices isn’t a big deal; I knew it would be a big deal, but I am surprised it isn’t a bigger one.
- The price increases aren’t that bad; Americans should be willing to sell one of their kidneys to put food on the table.
It all makes me wonder how any person of any belief would even consider voting for this creature, for any public office.
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee when Trump was impeached the first time, wrapped it up well when he said: “You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all. You can’t trust this president to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change and you know it. A man without character or ethical compass will never find his way.”
Oh, I could go on seemingly forever about why we must attend the March 28 No Kings rally, but this should be enough. However, if you still aren’t persuaded, you can read 2,000 more words explaining why by clicking here.
I’ve heard many people say they won’t attend the rally “because that’s just not my thing,” and that is certainly understandable. But, whatever your “thing” is, please do it. This truly is an all-hands-on-deck time.
Five years from now, when we’re looking back at this remarkable period in our history, will you have an answer ready when someone asks you, “What did you contribute to the resistance?”
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