"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

— Shawn "Smith" Peirce (@silversmith1.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T14:27:17.105Z

Link to tweet

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

That’s per a collective crowdsourcing effort led by Strength In Numbers, and involving many members of the independent data journalism community. We systematized reports from official sources, accounts from the media, and self-reported attendance from thousands of social media posts into a single spreadsheet. (Researchers, please take our data!)

As of midnight on Sunday, June 15, we have data from about 40% of No Kings Day events held yesterday, accounting for over 2.6m attendees. According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday. Organizers say 5m turned out, but don’t release public event-by-event numbers.

Of course, crowdsourcing data isn’t perfect; some local reports may be inflated, and others undercounted. And the formula we use to project attendance in places where we don’t have data assumes they are similar to the places where we do. That’s a necessary assumption, but an assumption nonetheless.

So this is by no means an official tally. But we do think it’s the most comprehensive tally currently available. Hundreds of data-gatherers have been compiling accounts of event attendance and checking them against available sources since Saturday morning. From a journalism perspective, this approach at least standardizes measurement and provides references to check our math, even if it doesn’t completely avoid the usual pitfalls of estimating crowd size (or the assumptions above). But in this case, we’re interested in speed and thoroughness, not perfection.

According to organizers, over 2,100 events were held under the No Kings Day banner on June 14. Some events appear to have had well over 250,000 people in attendance. Officials report 1m people in downtown Boston yesterday, but some of those were attending pride festivities. There are reports of nearly 100,000 attendees in both San Diego and Minneapolis-St. Paul, and multiple hundreds of thousands in New York.

[SheltieLover]

1. I've read 12.5 mill with numbers still being reported.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Please stop repeating this fake news. You read DU post of random substacker who showed no work & no references

Here is the bogus DU report that contains the link to the bogus substack blog: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220400310

You've made this claim in multiple posts and you have no basis in fact.

[ok_cpu]

3. Our 'No Kings' led straight into our Pride parade / festival and it was fantastic.

I think the attendance of the whole was greater than the sum of both parts would have been otherwise. It was a great day.

[SheltieLover]

4. It sure was a great day!

I've read Boston had over 1 mill & all the other huge gatherings.. no way was it 5 mill.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. There were no paid protesters