Saturday marked a nationwide day of protest as millions across the country gathered to take part in no King's rallies protesting President Donald Trump and his administration.

Rallies were held in nearly 2000 locations in Kentucky.

Protests were scheduled in more than a dozen cities, including Bowling Green, Somerset, Hopkinsville and Elizabethtown.

Protesters gathered in downtown Louisville to hear from speakers including U.S. Representative Morgan McGarvey.

The crowd then marched through downtown.

Lexington's rally also drew a large crowd among the speakers at the event.

Author and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House.

Today's event is to make our voices heard.

We want DC and the Trump administration and the rest of the world to see that we.

We don't want dictators here.

We.

We are done with it.

What do you want today?

It's really moving to see so many of you here today, because I know that you're here because you believe in democracy.

You are here because you love your country.

Because we know that this country was founded to reject oligarchy.

Yet in Washington, D.C., right now, the streets are being pummeled by tanks because of one man's fragile ego.

Who, perhaps even worse in D.C. today, members of Congress continue to lick the boots of a man who wants to take away not only the rights of women, not only the rights of LGBTQ people, not only the rights of people, of color, of immigrants.

He wants to take away everybody's rights.

Everybody's except for his and his boot lickers.

I know that you, like me, sometimes feel powerless and at your wit's end.

We have to keep going.

We have to do it for the ones who cannot be here.

I felt the need to come out here to show our politicians and to show other Americans that the actions of this administration are not, not appropriate and deeply immoral.

Deeply cruel.

You know, the cutting of Medicaid and social services, the tax breaks for the rich, the deep portation of, visa holding citizens, like, it's it's really just immoral and disturbing.

I'm here today because I'm a physician.

I've been a physician for over 30 years now, and I'm here because I believe in Medicaid.

Medicaid expansion has made a huge difference in our lives and in my patients lives.

I don't want to see that go away.

I came here because there's a long history of people not understanding that if they will come for your neighbor, they will come for you.

And that's the main reason why I'm here, is because I want people to understand that if you have an opinion about this but are too afraid to voice it, eventually you will have to voice it because they aren't sparing anybody.

It's silent.

I want my daughter to grow up in a better world.

We were talking earlier.

We kind of thought when we were younger that we were past a lot of the things we're protesting about today.

And I want my daughter to have a better world than the one we're looking at.

I hope they are ready to make a difference.

I hope they are even angrier than they were 24 hours ago.

They're ready to take that anger to the ballot box next year.

We have so many elections here in Kentucky up and down the ballot.

I, I hope folks see what's happening and they get out the vote next year.

We reached out to the Republican Party of Kentucky for comment about Saturday's rallies and have yet to hear back.

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King's protest came the same day as a military parade in Washington, D.C., with President Trump in attendance.

The parade was in observance of the U.S. Army's 250th birthday.

It was also President Trump 79th birthday.

He sat in the viewing stand south of the white House.

There were predictions of a crowd of 200,000 people, but the exact number is unverified, and there was a threat of thunderstorms in the Washington, DC area at the time.

Congressman Andy Barr, Republican from Kentucky's sixth district, said this about President Trump in a social media post this weekend.

Quote happy birthday, Mr. President.

A year ago, our country had an economic border and leadership crisis with President Donald Trump back in charge.

The golden age is upon us.

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