New York, 19 October 2025 (dpa/MIA) - Demonstrations against US President Donald Trump on Saturday attracted huge crowds across the country, as the No Kings movement protested against what it sees as Trump's authoritarian policies.

Organizers said nearly 7 million people had taken part in peaceful demonstrations in some 2,700 cities and municipalities - hundreds more locations than in a previous protest in June.

Many told reporters that they feared US democracy was at risk, less than nine months into Trump's second term. Others held banners with slogans such as "No King. No one above the law" or "Democracy not dictatorship."

The New York Police Department recorded 100,000 participants in the various demonstrations across the city. It said there had been no riots and that no arrests had been made.

A volunteer told a dpa reporter in the city's Times Square that the crowd had filled the street to the south all the way to Union Square - a distance of several kilometres.

There were also protests in the capital Washington, as well as in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and many other cities. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, thousands of people took to the streets, according to a dpa reporter.

People also took part in rallies in smaller towns such as Bethesda in the Washington area and Sarasota County in Florida.

Broadcaster CNN reported that one woman had been detained in South Carolina after pointing a weapon at protesters as she drove by in her vehicle.

The No Kings website says the Trump administration is "sending masked agents" into US streets, terrorizing communities and arresting people without warrants.

It also accuses the president of endangering elections, dismantling health and environmental protections, and allowing billionaires to profit while many families struggle from rising living costs.

"The president thinks his rule is absolute," it says. "But in America, we don't have kings."

Trump and his Republican party reject the label.

"They say they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king," Trump told Fox News on Friday.

Harvard University's Crowd Counting Consortium notes that protests have been far more frequent in Trump's second term, which started in late January, than in his first.

In mid-June, several million people participated in No Kings demonstrations, one of the largest mass protests in US history.

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