Nearly 7 million people turned up for the "No Kings" protests against Donald Trump and his administration, marking the largest single-day demonstration against a sitting president in modern US history, organizers said.
The figure is higher than protests in June, which drew more than 5 million people, organizers added.
The numbers could not be independently verified, but Saturday's protests saw millions of people join marches in over 2,500 cities and towns in all 50 states.
“Authoritarians want us to believe resistance is futile, but every person who turned out today proved the opposite," said Ezra Levin, a co-founder of Indivisible, one of the organizers.
But several officials in the Trump administration have sought to downplay the size of the protests.
"Marked safe from kings in DC, since there aren’t any here," assistant attorney general Harmeet Dhillon posted to X.
Mass 'No Kings' anti-Trump protests against authoritarianism
Protesters at the rallies accuse the Trump administration of authoritarian policies — from immigration crackdowns and mass firings of federal workers to attacks on the media and judicial independence.
In Washington, Senator Bernie Sanders accused Republicans of serving the wealthiest one percent and warned against a slide toward authoritarianism, declaring that "we the people will rule."
Republicans have dismissed the protests as "hate America" rallies, while participants in states like Florida said they were defending democracy and the US Constitution.
