Protesters took to the streets across the country on Monday to vocalize why they believe President Trump is not their president.
The #NotMyPresidentsDay protests were meant to send a message that Trump “doesn’t represent” the values of the American people. According to the Facebook event for the Washington, D.C. #NotMyPresidentsDay protest, people of “all backgrounds and identities” protested in solidarity against Trump’s “radical agenda.”
MRCTV attended the #NotMyPresidentsDay rally and march in Washington, D.C. At the event, speakers and attendees told MRCTV Trump’s presidency makes them feel like America is no longer their idea of America.
One of the speakers, a proud illegal immigrant, told the crowd, “This is not the country we want to be. This is not who we are and we cannot let the current administration continue to divide us and separate us due to our immigration status, or race, or gender, or sexual orientation. We will not stand for this.”
Another speaker added, “When I look at this country that we have now, and this is not a country that I want my kids to grow up in. This is not a country that we will welcome immigrants into or want to raise our kids in, where we want to be able to say this is the United States of America.”
One woman told MRCTV, “This is not my country. This is not America. This is not what we were founded on.”
Another protester, dressed in a mask of Trump as a clown, told MRCTV, “I think [Trump’s] riled up a lot of people who felt a certain way about a certain group of people, whoever they are, and they feel that they don’t have to hide anymore, so the hate crimes are up, everything’s up, and I just feel like that’s not what America should represent to anybody.”