Ema Alice: President Trump on Sunday called this weekend’s “No Kings” demonstrations against him a “joke” and rejected suggestions that he is acting like a monarch.
“I’m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That’s all it is. I’m not a king at all,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One while flying back to Washington, D.C. from Florida.
Millions of Americans gathered at “No Kings” events across the country on Saturday, protesting Trump and his administration. Roughly 2,600 demonstrations took place in all 50 states, with massive events in cities including Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Trump dismissed the significance of the protests on Sunday and suggested they were backed by wealthy Democratic donors.
“I think it’s a joke,” Trump told reporters, when asked Sunday about the “No Kings” protests.
“I looked at the people — they’re not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs… I guess it was paid for by [George] Soros and other radical left lunatics,” Trump continued. “It looks like it was. We’re checking it 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 added.
Trump, in an interview taped ahead of the protests, also rejected the idea that he was acting like a monarch, saying, “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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