Speaker Mike Johnson: ‘No Kings’ Protests Are a ‘Hate America Rally’

Leftists will be engaging in the “hate America rally” over the weekend, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said during his press conference on Friday.

Speaking of the weekend’s planned No Kings protests across the country, Johnson said Americans can plan on seeing “the Marxists the socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democrat party,” which “is the modern Democratic Party.”

“That’s where they’ve gone, and the hate America rally is the common theme among all those groups,” he explained. “Listen to the language they use themselves. Many of them don’t like living in America. They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system. They hate our principles. They hate the ideas that we come in to work every day, to fight for, to preserve the greatest nation in the history of the world.”

Further, Johnson said they hate the “idea of individual freedom and limited government.”

“They hate the idea of the rule of law. They fight against it all the time. They hate the idea of peace through strength. They lobby against it all the time. Individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, human dignity, the things that lead to human flourishing, the things that made us the greatest nation in the history of the world,” he continued, also highlighting their opposition to law enforcement and military.

“Their votes show it over and over. That’s the collection of voices that you’ll hear tomorrow that the Democrats will go out and raise their hands with and cheer with. And some of these people are so blinded by their hatred of President Donald Trump, that they can’t find one reason to celebrate America or all that we’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish under this new administration,” he said, making it clear that these Americans are still free to exercise their First Amendment rights.

“I’m personally a big advocate of that. I spent the first 20 years of my legal career in the federal courts, before it came to Congress, defending the right to free speech. They have the right to do it. Republicans, by the way, are the party that fights to maximize your liberty. And we believe, just as our founders did, that every American has been endowed by God himself with inalienable rights that includes the rights to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” he said, adding that the protests on Saturday are not about freedom at all but the “opposite.”

“For many of our Democrat colleagues, tomorrow is about creating really a spectacle. That’s what they’ve been doing here every day of the shutdown, with their little TikTok videos and their publicity stunts, and they’re going to do it in a much larger venue tomorrow,” he said, adding that Democrats are obviously dragging out the shutdown to make this spectacle even bigger.

“It’s becoming increasingly clear that this spectacle is the reason the Democrats have refused to reopen the government. Just read a sample of the materials that this organizing group has circulated far and wide about the event tomorrow. They distributed talking points cheering on the topic. They’re urging this on. They love this. They’re cheering on Chuck Schumer’s decision to close the government,” Johnson added.

The Speaker also reminded the audience that “Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over,” pointing to the cancel culture under the Biden administration, which really took off during the coronavirus era.

“It is the Republicans restored your right to share and speak your mind. That’s the first and most obvious irony of the hate America rally,” he added.

Jimmy Kimmel Promotes Left-Wing Anti-Trump Protest: ‘The American Revolution was a No Kings Rally’

Left-wing TV host Jimmy Kimmel promoted the leftist anti-Trump “No Kings” protest by bizarrely likening the demonstration to the American Revolution.

“There is nothing more American than a political protest. The American Revolution was a ‘No Kings’ rally,” Kimmel proclaimed during a recent monologue on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

The left-wing late-night host went on to suggest ideas for anti-Trump signs containing ad hominems — a common fallacy used by leftist protestors and activists — such as “Engorge Washington” and “King Hungry the Eighth.”

“If you are planning to go to the rally, and you’re going to be making your own sign — everybody there has a sign — I just want to ask you to remember our president is very sensitive about his weight, so please, do not use the word Sham-Mussolini to describe him,” Kimmel quipped.

“He will not appreciate it, it’s rude, and he will throw you in jail, just like he’s planning to punish those rabble rousers in Chicago,” the left-wing host added.

Kimmel then played a clip of U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller declaring Chicago “more dangerous” than Baghdad and Mexico City.

While Kimmel makes light of the crime-ridden city of Democrat-controlled Chicago, the Trump administration has been working to make dangerous cities across America more safe for its residents.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel touted the FBI’s crackdown on violent crime since the start of the administration, with President Trump calling for his top law enforcement officials to zone in on San Francisco.

Earlier this month, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed crime statistics, noting that at the president’s direction, “We are making America safe again.”

“In Washington, DC our law enforcement partners have made 3,837 arrests to date and seized 361 illegal guns. In Memphis, 273 arrests have been made in just under a week and 73 illegal guns seized,” Bondi said.

‘No Kings’ protestors expect thousands of ‘boisterous, joyful’ rallies nationwide

Organizers have planned more than 2,500 rallies around the country to celebrate free speech and protest many of the Trump administration’s actions.

Protesters nationwide are gathering at more that 2,500 locations today to rally against President Donald Trump in what organizers predict will be the largest one-day protest in modern American history.

The protests are meant as a celebration of free speech, the right to assemble and the First Amendment broadly, according to organizers. They say they also want to push back against recent moves by the Trump administration, including ramped-up immigration enforcement, sending troops into a handful of Democrat-controlled cities, making massive changes to American health care and eroding First Amendment rights, organizers say.

“I think what you’ll see on No Kings II in October is a boisterous, joyful crowd expressing their political opinions in a peaceful, joyous way. People with dogs, people with kids, people with funny signs, music, dancing, laughing, community building, and a sense of collective effervescence that comes when you gather with a lot of people with a shared purpose,” Indivisible cofounder Ezra Levin told USA TODAY.

Republicans in Washington have accused the protesters of prolonging the govenment shutdown, as well as hating America, being terrorists or belonging to Antifa, a loose group of anti-fascists. Organizers stress the safety and descalation training that ten of thousands of local activists have undergone to ensure these protests are as safe as the multiple other mass demonstrations held this year.

Are the rallies linked to the government shutdown?

For the past two weeks Republicans in Congress and some Cabinet officials have blamed the rallies as the reason Democrats won’t vote with Republicans to reopen the government.

On Friday, Republican leaders began mischaracterizing who would be at the rallies.

Speaker Mike Johnson again called the protests “Hate America” rallies that bring together “the Marxists, the socialists, the Antifa advocates, the anarchists and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democrat party,” during a press conference Friday.

At the same press conference, Rep. Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, said there would be “mobs of radicals.”

“This weekend we’ll see mobs of radicals at the hate America rally. You’ll see them across the country. These are the same activists who pressed Democrats to keep our government closed; to hurt you, to divide us and to push their far-left agenda,” she said. “When you see those images, remember this, this is who Democrats are fighting for. Not you. Not our troops. Not the hardworking moms down the street. They are fighting for the most radical voices in America and make sure that they own that.”

Democrats refuse to reopen the government because they want to undo Republican cuts to Medicaid and to save a tax credit millions of low- and middle-class Americans use to pay for health insurance.

In response, organizers have questioned why Republicans are lying about who will attend the protests.

“These protests are peaceful, disciplined and grounded in solidarity. That is what they fear, our unity and we’re going to show it on Oct. 18,” Indivisible Cofounder Leah Greenberg said. Indivisible is one of the organizers.

Greenberg questioned why Republicans are inaccurately labeling protesters in a way that could potentially draw violence.

“I would ask that question to Republicans. Why are they inciting and smearing millions of regular Americans, teachers, veterans, members of faith communities? Why are they creating this kind of agitation directed against people who are peacefully protesting and exercising their rights?” she said.

is in Palm Beach, Florida this weekend during the rallies. He is currently golfing, and his weekend began with a reported $1 million a plate dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence.

Several protests are scheduled in Palm Beach Sunday. According to the pool of reporters who travel with Trump there was no signs of protests on his trip from his home at Mar-a-Lago to the golf course.

promised the day will be safe, even as political rhetoric characterizes demonstrators as being aligned with terrorist forces.

“This protest is no threat to national security, as has been ludicrously claimed,” said Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, among multiple groups coordinating the rallies. “Protest is a sign of our freedom … It’s what made our country stronger for 250 years.”

While protest is an American hallmark, history shows demonstrations aren’t always free of violence, from the clashes of the 1960s demanding equality and an end to war to the outbursts of the 2010s and early 2020s decrying police brutality nationwide.

What makes a protest breed violence? In addition to deep-seated frustrations over social conditions, experts say multiple factors can contribute, including lack of organization, overzealous law enforcement or run-ins with counter protesters.

“Once they begin to get violent it moves quickly,” said Brian Higgins, a former police chief who now serves as an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York system. “It’s like setting fire to tinder — it’s very difficult to bring groups back under control.”

Why so many rallies?

More than 2,500 events are scheduled in big cities, suburbs and tiny towns across the nation, dwarfing the 1,800 scheduled before the June 14 protests of the same name. The biggest protests are planned for outside the Capitol in Washington, DC, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans and Bozeman, Montana.

Since March, activists have consistently scheduled same-day protests all over the country. Most are planned by local activists to represent their own community.

In Columbus, Ohio, plans call for a flash mob to recreate scenes from the show Les Miserables. Protests are expected outside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The inflatable costumes that have become a hallmark of protests in Portland, Oregon, in the last few weeks are expected to be plentiful.

Craig Brown, 72, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, told USA TODAY his local group put up billboards advertising their protest hoping to appeal to people who haven’t protested before.

“We know there’s a lot of people sitting in their living rooms very scared, very afraid at this very moment, watching the news through the fingers on their hands because they’ve got their head in their hands,” Brown said. “Those are the people that we’re trying to speak to. We’re trying to get them out of their homes, off their couches and out into the streets to voice their outrage.”

The event at Sioux Falls’ federal plaza will have speakers, he said, but he doesn’t care if people just want to wave signs at traffic and make a lot of noise.

“We’re not there to tell them how they should protest,” Brown said. “We always try to be cognizant of people’s need to release their feelings, their outrage, their scorn. And so we would never want to try to stifle that in any way.”

Levin, of Indivisible, said organizers are looking for a day of action that has “breadth, not depth” ‒ with lots of smaller protests, rather than one giant one.

“Having one big, major national event is significantly less important to me than just about everybody in America being no more than around an hour’s drive to their local event,” he said. “We want the sense to be that this is everywhere and not just folks who could afford to take the weekend off or travel to DC or some other city.”