Why MAGA Can’t Handle Million of Americans Saying: "No Kings"
A nationwide rejection of fascism has them spiraling.
MAGA world is absolutely crashing out over this weekend’s No Kings protests—7 million Americans hitting the streets in a peaceful show of love for country, love for community, and a total rejection of the fascism they’re trying to shove down our throats. I went to the Chicago protest, and it was overflowing with love, creativity, signs, and patriotism. I was stunned by how many people were carrying American flags.
Someone even pulled me aside and said they’d seen me on my show with Joe Walsh last Friday—where we talked about reclaiming patriotism from Republicans, who use it like a damn shield to deflect criticism from the harm they’re actively causing to people we care about. And we need to flip that. We need to make the American flag a promise—of what this country can be.
Seeing people out there doing just that? Incredible. And to meet one of you who heard that message? Even cooler. Hello out there, if you’re reading this.
Meanwhile, the MAGA influencers and politicians are losing it. Seven million Americans take to the streets and instead of taking the hint—that they are not popular—they start spiraling. Don’t let them fool you: these protests matter, and they terrify the right because they blow up the fantasy that Trump is some unstoppable juggernaut, beloved by all. The bigger and more visible the resistance becomes, the weaker they get. And you can see it in how incoherent their reaction has been.
They started the week calling everyone who attended Antifa and domestic terrorists. Then it was: “They’re all paid protesters.” Right—George Soros apparently wrote checks for 7 million people with no evidence. Then they tried to claim the protests were fake altogether. I posted a video from the Boston No Kings rally—huge turnout—and MAGA influencers, even Ted Cruz, jumped in claiming it was from the 2017 Women’s March. Straight-up lying. The video’s been verified from multiple angles. But they’re photoshopping fake “community notes” to pretend it’s fake. That’s how deep in denial they are (and by the way, their posts with the fake community notes have a real community note on them confirming my video is real.)
And when that didn’t work, they pivoted again—this time claiming it’s sad that 7 million people protested their favorite president instead of watching football. Well, guess what? I did both (and I know a lot of you did, too.) I drove to Chicago, marched with my fellow patriots, listened to Governor Pritzker’s powerful speech, and then hauled ass two hours east to South Bend to watch Notre Dame stomp USC in primetime. Turns out you can do both.
What’s actually sad is spending your entire weekend lying about a protest you’re clearly afraid of. That’s pathetic.
And here’s the bigger issue: we’re living in two completely different realities. There’s the real world—where people are hurting, where protests are happening, where inflation’s skyrocketing and the job market’s horrendous. And then there’s MAGA world, where Trump is the divine source of truth and nothing bad ever happens unless it’s someone else’s fault.
They lie about everything. They’re denying these protests even happened. They deny the jobs numbers. They deny the inflation reports. (Which, by the way, they haven’t even released the last one.) Just like they keep denying that Trump is in the Epstein files or that Tom Homan took a $50,000 cash bribe that’s ON TAPE FROM AN UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT. They deny. They deflect. They bullshit. And then they act smug like they’re winning or accomplishing anything that improves your life.
Let them. Let them keep spinning on that hamster wheel of delusion.
We’ve got work to do, no question. We need to rebuild a Democratic Party that delivers for real people and earns their trust back. But this weekend proved it again: there are more of us than there are of them. And what Trump and his people are doing? It’s not popular. People are pissed. Pissed about an economy rigged for billionaires—most of whom are in Trump’s inner circle. Pissed about ICE agents in unmarked vans kidnapping people in cities like Chicago. Pissed about a government that silences critics, attacks the press, and weaponizes the Department of Justice to go after Trump’s political enemies. And so we organize. We show up. We protect our neighbors and our communities. We do the work.
We’ve got to stay grounded in reality. The real one. The harder one. The one that demands effort and energy. The one that doesn’t turn a blind eye to what’s happening in America. Because that’s what they want to break—our sense of truth, our sense of each other, our sense of patriotism. But they won’t. Not if we stay in community. Not if we keep organizing with love, empathy, and strength.
This weekend, we sent a message. A warning: There are no kings in America. Not now, not ever. Trump or anyone else.
Keep sending that message—in every protest, every vote, every conversation, every act of resistance, big or small. Inch by inch, day by day, we will beat these fascists.
I believe estimates are now at 8.2 million for No Kings protests on 10-18!
Thank you 🙏 from Vancouver WA - we had a good turn out here too! Peaceful & lots of American 🇺🇸 too,