{"id":1114,"date":"2025-05-02T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/thousands-protest-rally-marking-trumps-first-100-days-in-office\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:57:30","slug":"thousands-protest-rally-marking-trumps-first-100-days-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/thousands-protest-rally-marking-trumps-first-100-days-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest rally marking Trump\u2019s first 100 days in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over 2,000 protestors lined the streets surrounding Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan Tuesday evening while President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/government\/president-donald-trump-marks-his-100th-day-in-office-with-a-rally-in-michigan\/\">hosted <\/a>his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-michigan-100-days-26ae89a509ba7c6b58587f14e987368e\">100 days in office achievement rally<\/a>. Several local and national political groups organized the protest, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlcv.org\/\">Michigan League of Conservation Voters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/629024679621100\/\">50501 Michigan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/macombdefenders.com\/\">Macomb Defenders Rising<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/committee\/C00411330\/\">Friends of Bernie Sanders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wethepeopledissent.com\/\">We the People Dissent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/miunitedaction.org\/\">Michigan United Action<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/macombdems.com\/nmdc\/\">North Macomb Democratic Club<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/10thDistrictDems\/\">Michigan 10th District Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilize.us\/indivisible\/event\/780860\/\">\u201cI dissent\u201d<\/a> after the final words of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2024\/07\/01\/sonia-sotomayor-dissent-trump-immunity\/\">dissenting opinion<\/a> in the 2024 <em>Trump v. United States<\/em> decision that expanded presidential immunity to any \u2018official acts,\u2019 the protest included signs expressing fears of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiecouncil.org\/explore-engage\/key-terms\/democratic-backsliding\">democratic backsliding<\/a>, autocracy and fascism. Some compared Trump to a dictator and Elon Musk to an oligarch. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Robert Johnson, 50501 Michigan member and one of the protest\u2019s planners, said he sees parallels between the current U.S. government and <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/fascism-1#fascism-in-germany-2\">fascist Germany<\/a> during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a disaster happening and people have to stand up to it,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be part of history like in Germany, where people ask later on, \u2018Why didn\u2019t they stop it?\u2019 Well, here we are trying to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachael Rewitzer, League of Conservation Voters regional organizer, told The Daily she came to raise awareness on the effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org\/epafacts\/facts-state-impacts-of-potential-cuts-to-epa\/\">environmental federal actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThese past 100 days have been absolutely disastrous for the environment,\u201d Rewitzer said. \u201cAll of these federal cuts to the EPA, the NOAA, all of these job losses, it\u2019s just making it harder for us to protect our state specifically. It\u2019s bad for our air, our land, our water \u2026 We\u2019re out here to try and make it known that Trump is destroying our planet in more ways than just our democracy \u2014 but also our environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLCV regional organizer Keough Lemieux told The Daily he loved seeing people from all walks come together to protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe turnout has been absolutely spectacular,\u201d Lemieux said. \u201cThis is what coalition building looks like. You have us from the environmental movement, we have people from the immigration movement, people from the labor movement\u2026 People in Michigan (are) fighting back against fascism and making sure that they know that we\u2019re not going to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily, LSA junior Ian Moore, co-chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegedemsatum.com\/\">College Democrats at the University of Michigan<\/a>, said he hopes the support generated at protests like this one is channeled into political action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that protests do is keep things in the news, which is really important,\u201d Moore said. \u201cBut with that, we\u2019ve got to be able to kind of deploy the power that we build up at protests towards actual action and actual policy. In the protest, we need to be saying, \u2018Keep paying attention. Keep paying attention until next November, and get on campaigns, actually help them do the work to do this.\u2019 Because protests are great for building up support, but we actually have to do something with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><em>Summer Managing News Editor Lyra Wilder can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/news\/government\/thousands-protest-rally-marking-trumps-first-100-days-in-office\/mailto:lyrawild@umich.edu\"><em>lyrawild@umich.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,000 protestors lined the streets surrounding Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan Tuesday evening while President Donald Trump hosted his 100 days in office achievement rally. Several local and national political groups organized the protest, including the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, 50501 Michigan, Macomb Defenders Rising, Friends of Bernie Sanders, We the People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[117,1239,1241,868,1238,1237,1240],"class_list":{"0":"post-1114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-days","9":"tag-marking","10":"tag-office","11":"tag-protest","12":"tag-rally","13":"tag-thousands","14":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}