Atlanta (AP) -At, Donald Trump prepared himself on Tuesday to discuss a joint congress meeting, protest groups gathered in parks, regional houses and other public reasons across the country to address his presidency as risky and un-American.
The rallies and marches in movement of the youthful 50501 movement, a voluntary group that was organized in the weeks after Trump’s inauguration the recent attempt to determine the hardened support of the “Make America Great Against” by Trump “Make America Again” and the success of the republican party of the populist picture of the President.
However, some early scenes on Tuesday showed the difficulties of seeing democrats, progressive and everyday citizens in order to collect a concrete reaction to Trump and the speedy actions of his second administration. Demonstrators have so many things that can be pushed back against – from tariffs to Trump’s reset in Ukraine to the aggressive and sometimes legally dubious actions of the Department of Government Efficiency and his leader, billionaire Elon Musk, it is complex to know what to concentrate on.
“There are so many things to fight, but I hope that we will start some conversations here,” said Sara Grummer-Srawn, who had a sign and “so much wrong, so little space”, followed by a compact printing litanei of topics from Ukraine and tariffs on potential educational cuts to refuse climatic and vaccine science.
Hundreds of people marched and sang in Atlanta who sang about a number of Trump initiatives. There were Palestinian flags and Ukrainian flags, along with signs that complained about the military support of Trump in Ukraine when she fought the penetrating Russian troops of Vladimir Putin.
Trump was, among other things, fascist, a “Russian asset”, “Putin’s doll” and “Wannabe -König”, more profane Moniker. A signed signed “Punch Nazis”, which reflects an increasing effort to compare Trump’s presidency with Nazi Germany. Muschus was a regular destination of mockery and anger. However, there was also an appeal for transgender rights, abortion rights and diversity. A understated sign simply put on: “Save our parks.”
The events were planned all day in all 50 states that end in Hawaii slow Tuesday.
In Austin, Texas, the Ukraine gathered in the Statehouse. Pops of Yellow – An allusion to the colors of the Ukraine national flag – showed the crowd when demonstrators put sunflowers on hair, hats and clothes. The Texan crowd, which counted hundreds, finally made his way through the city center and sang: “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Donald Trump has to go.”
“I think protests can be effective,” said Carol Goodwin, a local Austin local interest in Austin. “I think these smaller protests are valuable for the people who express their frustrations and I think this movement will grow over time.”
For some participants, the first day of the national campaign of 50501 on February 5 on February 5 – or the many women’s marches in 2017 at the beginning of the first term of trump. But for many others it was a up-to-date step in their commitment.
Goodwin quoted Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico and the Oval Office exchange between Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week as their reasons for participation.
In San (*50*), Michael Gray also pointed out this exchange of the White House with the Ukrainian guide. “The meeting with Zelenskyy … has just disgusted us to see an American president on the world stage,” said resident in Santa Rosa, California.
Grayson Taylor, a 33-year-old who came to the Atlanta event, had only protested this year. He described Trump’s actions, his cabinet and Musk as a “billionaire slip”, which led a government that “will serve the ultra-rich”.
At the same rally, Sherri Frias, 58, said her concerns about the extension of Trump’s tax reductions in 2017 for companies and the richest Americans – in connection with GOP suggestions to turn Medicaid and other aid programs back – she pulled her first protest. Trump has asked Congress to renew the tax cuts that are supposed to run.
Another participant in Atlanta, the 67-year-old Phyllis Bedford, said she had come to her first political protest because she felt overwhelmed by the breadth of Trump’s actions.
“I thought on the way here what I would like to say about the situation,” said Bedford, who drove from Republican Snellville on the outer edges of Metro Atlanta. “Everything I could think of is:” I’m sorry. “I’m sorry in Canada. I’m sorry, Mexico. I’m sorry, Greenland. I’m so sorry, Ukraine and President Zelensky. … We are just so wrong. And we don’t support this man.”
“For my own mental health because I have the feeling that I do something other than just screaming in my head, right? This continues every day and I want to be heard. “
The protests come after some Republican members of the congress have met the voters on the left during a recent congress break and as Democrats on the Capitol Hill to be more pronounced.
Taylor wants Democrats to be “rude and aggressive” like Republicans for years.
“The Republican Party is currently so much organized and not split,” said Smith. “The Democratic Party, they have individual problems, but in my observation it is difficult for them to get together to deal with the real problems they want.”
Several demonstrators said that the Democrats want to tirelessly highlight the real effects of Trump’s executive commands, Musk’s Commission and the pending Republican budget.
Bedford worked in the Financial Aid Office at Georgia State University. “Most of the children I dealt with would not have been enrolled without Pell and the (federal) financial aid system,” she said. “And now there is only one war against education and university formation.”
Grummer-Srawn shares her time between Atlanta and Geneva, where her husband works for the World Health Organization after spending 24 years in the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases. Trump has held the United States from supporting the WHO and adhering to the research and health representation of the CDC.
“We have to get people to stop and pause and see what each of its actions leads and associated the points,” said Grummer-Srawn, “even if people do not believe that Ukraine, tariffs and public health policy affect them directly.”
In the meantime, Frias believes that Democrats do everything they can give GOP control on the Capitol Hill and in the White House. The ultimate responsibility for actions, she said, is “the people in the USA”.
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Lathan reported from Austin, Texas. Associated Press Journalist Haven Daley contributed from San (*50*).
