Never Trump Homecoming took place Saturday all over the country, and instead of dressing up like high school kids do for the big dance, they showed up in fits and starts in most of the remaining blue pockets of the country, and made absolute fools of themselves in the process.
On my X feed, I’ve been compiling all of the lowlights with the intention of giving you a quick rundown of what you missed, because Hot Air readers are normal people with normal lives, and most of them rightly will not waste a second of precious weekend time.
One lady, a nomadic artist who really doesn’t like Donald Trump, offered this as analysis for why the No Kings/DooDah Parade was such a success.
The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) October 19, 2025
I couldn’t help myself. I replied that there was a counterprotest. It took place on the first Tuesday in November of last year, and 77 million-plus Americans participated. I’m sorry she missed it.
Were there crowds? Of course. In the cities where you would expect them – Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, there were sizeable numbers of people, if not a smidgeon smaller than similar protests in June.
I had no intention of writing this column when the festivities began on Saturday, but when I saw George Conway show up looking like a character out of Ramallah Rustler’s Rhapsody, I knew there was going to be too much material to leave behind.
🚨Never-Trumper George Conway spotted wearing an “I am Antifa” shirt at DMV “No Kings” protest. pic.twitter.com/0PFYZxD9nd
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 18, 2025
I’m not normally a huge fan of divorce, but whatever Kellyanne Conway got out of the deal leaving that relationship, she’s ahead tons. George now has a service dog that identifies as a giraffe. The dog attempted to flee but failed to get away when some idiot handed George a bullhorn.
🚨 BREAKING: Deranged never-Trumper George Conway EMBARRASSES himself at the manufactured “No Kings” rally
“Hey hey, Donald J, how many kids did you starve today?? Hey, hey!!”
Crowd: 😶😶
Conway: “Okay, that’s—hahaha”
The level of cringe is off the charts 😭 pic.twitter.com/McFEAysroI
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 18, 2025
Peter Schweizer and his team have begun to post the dark money groups that bankrolled a lot of this nationwide Astroturfing, and roughly how much was spent.
.@peterschweizer‘s team exposing the funders of the manufactured No Kings protests.
They’re paid to be there.
So phony. pic.twitter.com/lSi4h3lfOl
— 🇺🇲Salty Texan (@texan_maga) October 18, 2025
And yet ‘No Kings’ is completely bought and paid for.
Absolutely 100% Fake and INORGANIC. pic.twitter.com/FdhL5Fhas2
— Priceless Debates 🇺🇸 (@YourRightPrice) October 18, 2025
There were leaflets printed and passed out to demonstrators with lyrics to protest songs they wanted the media to pick up.
Sheets of paper handed out with the songs of the protest pic.twitter.com/YHKzI2HXxp
— Brecca Stoll (@StollBrecca) October 18, 2025
There were fleets of buses bringing in protesters.
Busses are seen bringing in protesters for the No Kings Day Protest yesterday in Texas
“Wow, look at all these buses. Look at this. And there’s buses behind us all coming up here, all paid for by the radical left. Amazing” pic.twitter.com/YKAVayiV9h
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 19, 2025
A lot of them were just going through the motions, marching until they were no longer on the clock, playing on their phones.
Notice how low energy the Hate America Rally participants are. They’re also mostly old and white.
Many are paid to be there. They have no passion because they don’t care and these rallies do nothing.
No Kings is no enthusiasm, diversity nor results.pic.twitter.com/abW4SiNTcu
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 18, 2025
In Chicago, someone organically paid and printed out a “We the people” banner for protesters to sign that was half a block long. Totally not paid for and brought in by outside groups.
Is this not absolutely insane
For the No Kings Day Protest in Chicago they had this massive US Constitution “We The People” prop
No normal American could ever afford to have something like this made. This is the CLEAREST example of the massive funding behind the paid protest pic.twitter.com/M4Glu31q3v
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 20, 2025
Paid Protester supervisors holding a quick sidebar meeting before the totally organic protest rally took place.
🚨I crashed a No Kings paid protestor meeting and then exposed 3 of them in 4 minutes. WATCH 👇 pic.twitter.com/E5EiP4SO2V
— Nate Friedman (@NateFriedman97) October 19, 2025
And in New York, when they were no longer on the clock, the rally didn’t just end, it disappeared.
🚨 NOW: It’s only 2PM and the No Kings rally in densely-populated New York City is SPARSE and CLEARING OUT
The morning shift is over! They’re clocking out!
Foreign flags being flown and tons of old, white retirees.
Bummer🤣 pic.twitter.com/bUZmPLOtNJ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 18, 2025
A few minutes later…
Aaaaaand just like that, they’re gone.
“No Kings”….🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/v5GL3zg8Wo
— Isaiah L. Carter 🇺🇸 (@IsaiahLCarter) October 18, 2025
Donald Trump on Air Force One returning from a weekend in Florida knows what every sentient person knows – This was a paid stunt that fizzled.
President Trump on the No Kings protest: “It’s a joke. 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 Soros and other radical left lunatics.”
“We’re checking it out. The demonstrations were… pic.twitter.com/2ZBT9n2WBq
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) October 20, 2025
How much did it fizzle? MSNBC ran video of a huge protest rally…from 2017 and tried to pass it off instead of Saturday’s underwhelming response in Boston.
How do you know the No Kings protest was a bust?
The Left is showing videos from 2017 trying to convince Americans they were from today.
It was that bad.pic.twitter.com/ZIJ4QGlBZI
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 18, 2025
When NBC News covered the actual event, and notice the smaller crowd than the Astroturfed video from 8 years ago, the anchors couldn’t help but notice something that was a common thread at many of the protests. Most of the participants were white, most were elderly, and most didn’t have a clue in the world why they were there.
🚨 LMAO! Democrats can’t STAND that even NBC Boston had to call it like it is regarding the “No Kings” crowd…
“An OLDER crowd! A LOT of white hair! You see Q-tips…not a lot of young people!” 😂💀
It PAINS them to hear it! pic.twitter.com/smeJLGpWsp
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 19, 2025
Q-tips, we call them, says NBC News.
In Washington, D.C., at a sparse crowd in front of Lafayette Park to protest at the White House, a city that sports around 50% of their population being Black or Latino, you see a sea of white.
It was the same deal in Atlanta, which also has a huge Black population.
No Kings…
Almost 50% of the population in Atlanta is black.
Almost 100% of the protestors in Atlanta are white.
Another protest run by smelly old nutty hippies and paid protesters getting the last of the USAID cash.
Nothing the Left does is real…pic.twitter.com/Yp3P2LDVln
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 19, 2025
When seniors get involved, this kind of stuff breaks out.
AARP Presents: The “No Kings” Protest! pic.twitter.com/GSMdf95YwB
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) October 18, 2025
And in the Pacific Northwest, the geriatric protesters were out in force.
This is footage from the No Kings Day Protest in Bainbridge Island, Washington
– They’re all white
– They’re all old, many likely in their 70s
– They’re all definitely glued to the mainstream media at homeThe media is radicalizing and brainwashing people. It must be stopped pic.twitter.com/9BHjICbtyN
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 19, 2025
Even the Los Angeles Times reported that the numbers in Downtown L.A. were not that wildly impressive.
The new @DrPatSoonShiong @LATimes isn’t hyping the local “No Kings” crowds: “Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across Southern California …,” which seems about right. LA is the focal point of much ICE enforcement, and yet didn’t muster a big reaction. https://t.co/qMlDtVxAKT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 19, 2025
Remember, this is a No Kings protest. This was specifically to object to Donald Trump acting like an authoritarian, allegedly. Yet the seething hate for Charlie Kirk and other Republicans was palpable and on full public display.
Right after a Seattle No Kings protester told me he wanted to kill @StephenM, an average looking middle-aged dude chimed in to say it would be “justifiable.” These people live among us. https://t.co/aFtG31xhHd pic.twitter.com/r6p8Nfzb3E
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) October 19, 2025
Killing Stephen Moore would be justifiable.
MSNBC boomers have gone insane pic.twitter.com/bjYY6GO0qI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 20, 2025
Seems like patriotic love to me. Just a guy in a jacket holding a sign asking for better snipers with Trump’s face in the crosshairs.
A guy wears a T-shirt that says, “For Charlie”. The reaction he got from a protester barely makes the podium for craziest meltdowns.
🚨 NATHAN HUGHES: Wears shirt that says “FOR CHARLIE” at No Kings
WOMAN: He was a RACIST! He was a misogynist! And that means you are too, because YOU support HIM! GET OUT!! GET OUT OF HERE!! 😡
HUGHES: 😂😂
This is the Left. Total mental instability.pic.twitter.com/Yumt4PFKZ6
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 18, 2025
Then there’s this nice lady. How do I know she’s nice? She says so…right up to the point where she becomes a homicidal maniac.
Jeezus.
This is who Democrats are …
They want us dead. pic.twitter.com/4xoWk6yMdn
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) October 19, 2025
There’s this woman, who’s a school teacher in Chicago, after spotting a man wearing a Charlie Kirk Freedom shirt and going right for the jugular, as it were.
NEW: Nathan Hale Elementary in Chicago has taken down its website after one of its teachers was accused of mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Teacher Lucy Martinez is accused of making the gesture at a West Beverly protest in Chicago yesterday.
Nathan Hale Elementary is… pic.twitter.com/vPFVaXJGcK
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 19, 2025
This woman wants Donald Trump to die as her birthday present.
No kings protester says her birthday wish is for Trump to die
The Democratic Party is the party of violence and death
They want us all dead and they’re not even hiding it pic.twitter.com/EfPBlAcEhq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 19, 2025
Whereas this gentleman wants to arm up and shoot ICE agents on sight.
This guy at the “No Kings” rally called for people to take arms and murder ICE agents. The FBI & DOJ need to find him and charge him FAST.
“You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. The same… pic.twitter.com/YLATRLKkbZ
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 19, 2025
This doctor was at least a little more subtle. His sign is begging cholesterol to get on with it already.
Connecticut State Senator Saud Anwar (D) who is also a doctor and is from Pakistan, held up this sign at the no kings protest appearing to suggest he hopes Trump gets sick and dies
Absolutely disgusting post for a sitting government official and doctor no less!
Any comment… pic.twitter.com/aQZRzjiTSY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 19, 2025
And this deranged cutie’s chest may say empathy, but her hat says hot girls hate trump. I know I’m supposed to keep my eyes up here, but I’m getting mixed messages.
For his own part, Donald Trump stirred up the pot on Saturday, proving once again what an amazing age in which we’re living. Peace deal in the Middle East one weekend, and this in the next.
JUST IN: President Trump shares an AI video of him with a crown on dropping poop from a fighter jet on Harry Sisson at a protest.
What a wild time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/0XSDaw0A4D
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 19, 2025
JUST IN: ‘TeamTrump’ trolls the ‘No Kings’ protests on Instagram by sharing an AI video of President Trump dressed like a king in front of the White House with Andrea Bocelli music playing.
The video amassed 34,000 likes in just 30 minutes. pic.twitter.com/tBIuwCfARd
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 18, 2025
Going back to Trump on Air Force One, despite the trolling he does online, he does work his tail off. That is actually undeniable if you look at the schedule the President has kept for almost ten months.
In closing, I’ll give you two more clips of other people working their hindquarters off.
NEW: Grown adult protesters dressed up as ‘LICE’ agents roll around on the U.S. Constitution at Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ protest.
“ICE lice have invaded the Constitution at Seattle Center’s No Kings protest,” the Stranger Seattle posted.
Clown show. pic.twitter.com/nIRRc292MA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 19, 2025
No Crown. #NoKings! pic.twitter.com/5NWMAVLLzh
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) October 18, 2025
I just love the fact that a 5-second video had to had a jump cut in the middle of it before Nancy could finally make short work of the cardboard crown.
I can’t wait for the No Kings rally in 2029, objecting to President J.D. Vance. That’s going to be absolutely lit.