At Nashville’s “No Kings” protest, demonstrators decried tyranny while freely exercising rights only possible in a free society. The real irony? They're raging against a dictatorship that doesn’t exist—under the full protection of the freedoms they deny.
By Kelly Jackson | TruthWire News
As more than a thousand demonstrators packed Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall for the “No Kings” protest on June 14, the irony was hard to miss. Chanting slogans like “Donald Trump has got to go” and waving upside-down American flags, attendees claimed to stand against authoritarianism. But their freedom to protest—publicly, loudly, and without government interference—is precisely what proves that the man they label a “king” is anything but.
The “No Kings Day” protests, coordinated by progressive coalition Indivisible and supported by dozens of left-leaning advocacy groups, were timed to disrupt two things: President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday celebration and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary. In other words, a nationwide temper tantrum aimed at both a political rival and America’s military tradition.
According to organizers, the protests were meant to spotlight supposed abuses of power—claims that Trump “defied courts,” “disappeared people,” and “attacked civil rights.” Yet none of that stopped the protests from happening in broad daylight, with relaxed police presence and spontaneous drum circles. If Trump were really the tyrant they claim, they wouldn’t be protesting on Jefferson Street—they’d be hiding in basements whispering about him.
Confusing Immigration with Illegal Immigration
A significant portion of the protest focused on immigration—though not in any nuanced way. Sign after sign and speaker after speaker blurred the line between legal immigration and illegal border crossings, treating any effort to secure the border as inherently cruel and “anti-immigrant.”
This willful conflation ignores one important fact: many legal immigrants—especially in the Hispanic community—oppose illegal immigration just as much as born-and-raised conservatives do. And unlike the protest crowd, they speak from experience.