President Donald Trump insisted “I’m not a king” while calling Saturday’s No Kings Day and subsequent rallies “a joke.”
Trump, who spoke with reporters before leaving Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews Sunday, added he works his “ass off to make our country great,” per Fox News.
No Kings demonstrations were held throughout the world, including major cities, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Portland, Oregon, and Austin, as well as smaller venues like Bradford, Pennsylvania, and Olean, New York.
“I looked at the people. They’re not representative of this country, and I looked at all the brand new signs paid for. I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics,” Trump said. “It looks like it was worth checking out. The 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.”
He also took issue with the name if the rally.
“I’m not a king,” he said. “I work my ass off to make our country great. That’s all it is. I’m not a king at all.”
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The rallies were held Saturday when large crowds assembled in cities for the second No Kings protest since June. The protests were aimed at the Trump administration.
For the most part, the protests were peaceful as no incidents or arrests were reported.
Members of the GOP alleged the rallies were intended to distract from the ongoing government funding fight and shutdown.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox Business he was hopeful that Democratic leaders who attended the rallies would be more open to the Republican plan, but did not sound optimistic.
The New York Police Department said about 100,000 people added the rallies across all five boroughs. It alluded
there were no “protest-related” arrests.
The same held true in Washington, D.C., were no arrests were reported.
