The keynote speaker downtown was the former Trump associate Lev Parnas, who denounced the president's circle as a personality cult.

From the air and the ground thousands of people could be seen taking on their city streets to join the "No Kings Day" protest across the Bay Area.

Walton has urged the American public to engage in the political process in the ad, which defends democratic values.

“People are mad, and people are ready to speak out,” said Sharon Riggle, who leads Batavia-Aurora Area Indivisible, one of the groups that helped organize the protest in Geneva on Saturday. “This is bigger than anything we’ve had before.”

We want democracy,” Puck tells me, adding that the Pride March in Hollywood last weekend was “nothing but love and sunshine” despite protests and burning driverless cars making headlines in downtown.

Crowds of demonstrators gathered around the country on Saturday, protesting what they called President Trump’s overreach.

Protesters across the United States have brandished placards declaring “no kings!” in recent days, keen to send a message one-man rule is not acceptable. The defeat of the forces of King George III in the United States’ revolutionary war of 1775–83 saw the end of royal rule in the US.