In comments Friday, Donald Trump opposed the protest organizers’ characterization of him as a would-be monarch.
I’m not a king,” Trump said in a Fox News interview.
At a White House event on Wednesday, Trump tried to downplay the No Kings events.
“I hear very few people [are] going to be there, by the way, but they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun,” he said.
“The President is putting his ego over responsibility with this disregard for public safety,” the Democratic governor said in a statement.
“I encourage you to watch – we call it the ‘hate America’ rally – that will happen Saturday,” said the House speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
“Let’s see who shows up for that,” Johnson added, listing groups including “antifa types”, people who “hate capitalism” and “Marxists in full display”. »