Hundreds of thousands of protesters thronged city centers and parks for a national day of “No Kings” rallies, challenging what they say are authoritarian actions by President Trump, whom they portray as acting more like a king than a president.
In the Massachusetts capital, rallygoers linked the “No Kings” theme to the city’s well-steeped history from the American Revolution.
“We kicked down a king, and we’d do it again,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, among the most outspoken of America’s Democratic mayors, told the tens of thousands of people who took over Boston Common.
Among the crowd, which organizers expected to number around 100,000, were immigrants, plenty of colonial wigs, local university students, and many costumes with a Bostonian twist.