This past weekend, some 2,000 “No Kings” protests visited American cities in opposition of President Trump’s deportation efforts after violent riots engulfed Los Angeles the week prior.

In addition to signs reading, “Due process is for everyone,” and “Immigrants make America great,” there have been numerous violent encounters between rioters and law enforcement, bystander battery and harassment, and even a shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Meanwhile, Democrat politicians posted an almost verbatim script on social media, espousing America’s greatness in defiance of tyrants.

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis remarked to MSNBC: “People are very determined to get out there and be seen. This is the United States. We do not want a king.”

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer posted, “Millions of Americans are standing up today to say loud and clear: No kings in America.”

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington wrote, “There are no kings in America. We need to remind ourselves that our voices are important. … That’s how we change the direction of this country. That’s what democracy is.”

Illinois governor and Hyatt hotel billionaire JB Pritzker exclaimed: “Let me remind you: we don’t have kings in America – and I won’t bend the knee to one. … This is what democracy in action looks like.”

While it is a breath of fresh air to see Democrats adopting a new love for liberty, do these “No Kings” protests actually reflect a grassroots effort against “tyranny,” or are they something else entirely?

GRASSROOTS PROTESTS? THINK AGAIN

While the legacy media portrays the nationwide protests as the will of the common people, the numbers don’t lie, and it appears the so-called “voices” Democrats are celebrating are not those of regular Americans, but of billionaires and moguls who are diametrically opposed to Trump’s plan to reduce illegal migration and enforce our laws.

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revealed how the “No Kings” protests were being advertised by Walmart heiress Christy Walton, a billionaire and avid Democrat funder who has given hundreds of thousands to leftist organizations like the Lincoln Project, and has opposed Trump’s tariff and immigration policies.

Indivisible, a self-proclaimed progressive, grassroots organization, took pride in organizing “No Kings” months in advance, working with a coalition of Democrat and progressive organizations to plan the nationwide protests. While Indivisible may want to appear as a genuine, grassroots movement against tyrannical Republicans, records show that the organization received $3 million in 2023 alone, and over $7 million total since 2018, from the Open Society Foundation — the radical organization formed by George Soros to spread Marxist propaganda such as mass migration policy, and to destabilize America by funding terrorist sympathizers.

It is obvious just how influential some of these “No Kings” funders are. Data compiled from DataRepublican shows involvement by the ACLU, the Action Network Fund, the American Federation of Teachers, Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. and other entities, many of which receive millions of dollars in federal grants. Contributions are also tied to local branches of AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, which has reported receiving over $59 million in federal grants in 2022, and an additional $69 million in 2023.

DataRepublican warned that the AFL-CIO is one of America’s “soft-power” NGOs known for effecting global regime change: “That AFL-CIO is openly involved in sponsoring the No Kings rally should raise extreme concerns as to the rally’s true purpose.”

There is also a suspected Chinese Communist Party connection — the Chinese Progressive Association — which indirectly funds protests through its donations to leftist Black Voters Matter.

“No Kings” doesn’t sound like your average “mom-and-pop” grassroots protest — unless the moms and pops are billionaires and leftist NGOs looking to destabilize American communities.

CLINTON AND OBAMA DEPORTATIONS

The legacy media would have us believe that “No Kings” is an organic, democratic movement to take the country back from an orange-haired dictator — despite the fact that Trump uncontestably won the 2024 presidential election. The numbers don’t lie: “No Kings” is an artificial attempt by leftist billionaires to accuse Trump of what Democrats have been doing for decades.

While protesters oppose Trump’s deportations, they conveniently forget that President Bill Clinton deported more than 12 million illegals, and President Barack Obama, the aptly named “Deporter-in-Chief,” deported more than 5 million, with 3 million formally removed — the majority of whom were summarily deported without any due process —  something leftists only obsess over when Republicans are in power. In fact, Trump has deported fewer people than Obama did, yet protesters would have us believe Trump is “literally Hitler.” Ironic, considering these same people fanatically supported Democrats’ COVID policies which saw people detained, fined and arrested for refusing to comply with draconian “health mandates.”

The media wants you to believe that these protests are organic reactions to Trump’s mandate to uphold the law and secure America’s borders. To the contrary, the marches are nothing more than choreographed PR events, orchestrated by leftist elites who would rather be kings in their own right than help American citizens prosper.

(Connor Vasile is a political commentator and analyst. He is the author of “The State Knows Best” and “I’m Joe Biden: In His Own Words.”)