Massive protests erupted across the world against Trump and Elon Musk:

At the Washington Monument, where one of many "Hands Off" protests across the country gainst President Donald Trump and DOGE Elon Musk took place with Nearly 600,000 people signed up to attend the protests, some which took also take place in other countries, according to Indivisible, one of the organizations leading the movement according to CNN.

"Hands Off" anti- Trump and Elon Musk protest nationwide and in LA : photo:credit: Daniel cole : Reuters.

Over 150 groups, including labor unions, and civil-rights organizations, coordinated at least 1,200 protests in all 50 states. Demonstrations occurred at state capitols and in large cities as activists brandished signs criticizing Trump and Department of Government Efficiency czar Elon Musk, some of which read “Grab him by the teslacles,” “The only minority destroying this country are the billionaires,” “Morons Are Governing America,” and “Fascism will fail.”

Pro-Hamas protesters in Washington joined in on the national day of demonstrations as well, flying Hamas flags, vandalizing Department of Homeland Security vehicles, and displaying murals glorifying terrorists, According to the the Washington Free Beacon reported.

One bystander in Washington, D.C., told National Review that he saw a crowd of keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters pack up their signs into a U-Haul van at the end of Saturday’s protest.

Democratic members of Congress expressed support for activists’ causes at the Washington, D.C., protest.

“No moral person wants an economy-crashing dictator who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) said, addressing the Trump administration’s latest round of sweeping tariffs, that went into place last week.

Demonstrators mainly spoke out against Trump’s effort to downsize federal programs and decrease the size of the federal workforce, enact tariffs, reform Social Security and Medicaid, and remove illegal aliens from the U.S.

“Congratulations to all those who took to the streets on this Hands off Day of Action,” Senator Bernie Sanders (D., Vt.) said. “Americans will stand tall against Oligarchy, Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy. We will not allow billionaires to get huge tax breaks while Medicaid and other programs are cut. And we will win.”

“We don’t want this America, y’all,” she continued. “We want the America we deserve, where dignity, safety, and freedom belong not to some of us, but to all of us.” According to the article by Hailey Strack on april 16, 2025.

Protesters gathered in cities across the US on Saturday to denounce President Trump and Elon Musk in the largest nationwide show of opposition since the

The "Hands Off" protest aimed to hold rallies in 1,200 locations, including in all 50 US states. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC, among other cities.

Anti- Trump Protesters demostrated against Trumps social reforms to economic issues.

Coming days after Trump's announcement that the US would impose import tariffs on most countries around the world, gatherings were also held outside the US, including in London, Paris and Berlin. (sourced: BBC news,)