By Michael Moore / Substack / April 8, 2025
This weekend, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE took to the streets of America to protest Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and what this administration of dangerous idiots, creepy billionaires and outright white supremacist fascists are doing to this country.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! There were 1,500 registered protests and hundreds more that just sprung up spontaneously in places where nothing had been planned but people said… “F*ck it! Let’s just go down to the courthouse!”
You would think this would be front page news. This would be blasting every 20 minutes of “Breaking News” and “This Just In!” and “Happening Now in the Situation Room!”
But, according to CNN, it was “scores of people” and USA Today said it was “tens of thousands” which was at least more than FOX News which said it was just “thousands of people.”
They refused to believe that MILLIONS of everyday Americans left their homes and packed tens of thousands of streets — even though they knew in advance there were over 600,000 people who had already RSVP’d to rallies nationwide weeks before the protests even started! And if you’ve ever met any Lefties and Independents and Traditional Non Voters… we don’t sign up for ANYTHING. For every 1 person who RSVP’d there were at least 8 who said, “Dude, I’ll just show up, why do I have to RSVP? This isn’t a bridal shower!”
From my vantage point, I can safely tell you that there were at least 2,000 planned protests on Saturday — and, my guess, thousands more unplanned, random, last minute gatherings, curbside cheerings and angry spontaneous blowouts, fists-in-the-air, middle-fingers waving and otherwise mild mannered citizens of America SCREAMING HOLY BLOODY MURDER!
The outcry is massive and unstoppable. A hundred thousand people or more in EACH of these cities: New York, Boston, Chicago, Philly, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Tens and tens of thousands of people came out in Seattle and Lansing and Madison and beyond. The list and the attendance numbers are breathtaking — from large metropolitan centers to all sorts of villages and small towns everywhere. And now… add in that there were well over 1,000 in Columbia, South Carolina and numbers just like this everywhere — from Mississippi (500 in Gulfport and 300 more in Jackson) to Traverse City, Michigan (4,000), to the 400 in nearby Benzonia. I know. What is a Benzonia?
The organizers of the nationwide event — the 50501 Movement — have an official tally of over 5,000,000 people — 5 Million!
Another group — the American Federation of Teachers — who know a little something about counting — say that there were at least 4 million people who took to the streets all across the country.
Millions and millions of people from all over the country, from all walks of life and all age groups, marching for Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, marching to defend the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services, marching to protect the funding of cancer research and efforts to stop the next global pandemic, marching against the greed of capitalism, and marching to oppose mass deportations and the rounding up of immigrants and college students and marching against the unending genocide in Palestine, a mass murder paid for with our tax dollars and carried out with our weapons of war.
You would think all of this would lead all the news channels to show these scenes and talk about it all day long. But this was not done. It was not a front page story in the New York Times. Instead it was on Page 18 — in a city where there were literally and obviously well over 100,000 people in the streets just down the block from their billion-dollar skyscraper.
So, my friends, next to us already knowing that we are a nonviolent army of millions, and next to us already knowing the fact that that there are more of us than there are of all of them, here is the most important thing I want all of you to take away from this historic protest:
The only ones more frightened about our record turnout than Trump and Musk are the corporate media, the Wall Streeters, the billionaires and the other Party they own — the weak, lame Party that had 49 years to make Roe the law of the land and did nothing. The party that oversaw the rise of the #1 cause of death of American children — GUNS — and did nothing to stop this slaughter because they were afraid of the NRA. The Party that embraced Netanyahu and fully funded and armed his ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people — these are the same politicians whose pundits and media have tried to bury how massive the turnout was on Saturday when MILLIONS of Americans said ENOUGH! They do not want you to know that you hold the power, and that you are going to do their job for them and bring Trump down. Because when Trump’s MAGA traitors lose in next year’s elections, they, the pathetic old school Dems, they fear they too will be swept away. We are coming after them for their incompetence, their malpractice in letting Trump and Musk take over. They hid Biden’s decline from the public and fixed it so that we wouldn’t have someone who could crush Trump. They instead crushed the working class and the youth who ended up in despair, many of them too devastated, too resigned to even vote.
Let me say this again:
The people in charge — and I’m not just talking about the Trump administration — do NOT want to encourage you to rise up, to fight back. Because when the people rise up… that is the moment when everyone says, “I’ve had it!” — Democratic voters and Republicans — “with all the shit that is happening!” There’s going to be such a reaction to all the destruction Musk and Trump have caused — and the fact that the “opposition” party has sat by and almost silently let it happen — that all of this madness, all of this OVERREACH and all of this MAGA attempt to OVERWHELM all of us into a mass depression — this will now boil over into a nonviolent OVERTHROW! The people are mad as hell, and they are not going to take it any more.
We will not be ignored.
Five million+ people in the streets organized by… each other! The media ignored it in the days and weeks leading up to this protest and tried to ignore it as soon as it was over — just like Fox News keeps removing the stock market ticker as Trump craters the American economy and plunders the 401(k)s of those lucky enough to have one. They ignored it all and we still showed up.
And we are not going to stop. The next mass nationwide rally is April 19. Go to www.FiftyFifty.one to find out about events near you. More events are being added each day. And if you don’t see one in your city or your town — they have tools to help you organize one.
ORGANIZE ONE!!
THE POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS!!
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I am in complete agreement with Mr. Moore’s outrage not only against the Repugnant Republican party, but also the DO NOTHING DEMOCRATS!
Unfortunately the U.S. Supreme Court has, through a series of rulings, established that corporations are considered “persons” for certain legal purposes, granting them rights similar to those of natural persons, particularly regarding the First Amendment and the ability to contribute vast amounts of money to political campaigns. In addition, they have granted POTUS near total immunity for his actions, resulting in him behaving more like a King than a President.
As a result, I’m afraid that Democracy is, in fact, technically brain dead in this post constitutional America. The only thing left to do is pull America’s plug.
For those of us who marched on Saturday, the energy was unmistakable. It was the proof we needed that we are not alone, that there are millions of us. And as Moore points out, that the mainstream media mostly failed to either accurately report this or report it at all is not just journalistic malfeasance but commercial suicide. (Note to the MSM: you can’t whine about being necessary when you make yourselves irrelevant.) But it does demonstrate more than ever that the only people who will save us are ourselves.
Here is an example of biased reporting: “In San Diego, a long stream of hundreds of protesters marched downtown and was joined by sideline counterprotesters, some of whom said they support Trump’s tariffs.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/global-hands-off-protests-donald-trump-elon-musk-rcna199847
I was there. It was huge. It was amazing! What sort of reporter for a national news organization can’t tell the difference between “hundreds” and “12,000” (SDPD estimate) people? Also, I walked for miles, reading everyone’s creative signs, and did not find any in support of the current administration.
Today’s news from the White House regarding the tariff policy reversal could have been lifted from “1984”. The official stance on this or any issue changes abruptly, the underlings are left scrambling to line up, and history is quietly rewritten to match the Leader’s TRUTH social.