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Medan Trump firar sig själv kokar USA av motstånd och protester.
Knappt ett halvår efter att Donald Trump svors in som president, visar många amerikaner att de har fått nog. “No Kings”-protesterna som sker 14 juni väntas överstiga tidigare massprotester mot Trump och MAGA. På sajten nokings.org som organiserar demonstrationer på över 1800 platser i USA står att läsa:
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings. On June 14th, we rise up.
Detta sker samtidigt som Donald Trumps grandiosa försök att manifestera styrka och makt. Hans födelsedag infaller nämligen med Flag Day, som firar grundandet av den amerikanska armén. Militärparaden i Washington D.C. inleder dessutom det årslånga firandet av landets 250:e födelsedag. Med tanke på den stora mediabevakningen av protesterna under lördagen, är det mycket som talar för att Trumps stora dag inte blir som han hade tänkt sig.
‘No Kings’ protests underway ahead of Trump military parade for Army’s 250th birthday (Washington Post, 14/6)
Live Updates: Protests Against Trump Policies Kick Off Across the Country (New York Times, 14/6)
Two recent international polls, from Ipsos and Pew Research Center, show that many people in Western democracies understand what’s happening here, even if some Americans are slow to see it.
People in other countries see what America is becoming (Washington Post, 14/6)
‘It’s a damn shame A250 has to be blemished with Trump…It’s unfortunate that this egoistical maniac is the president when we are supposed to be showcasing our country in a bipartisan or nonpartisan way.’
How MAGA Took Over America’s 250th Birthday (Mother Jones, 14/6)
The army’s 250th anniversary was originally conceived as a modest affair: a year ago it filed a permit request for an event on the National Mall featuring 300 people, a concert by the army band and the firing of four cannon. Trump’s election, however, led to a radical change of plan.
Tanks, flypasts, missiles: what to expect at Trump’s ‘dictator chic’ military parade (The Guardian, 13/6)
Uppdatering med anledning av politikermordet och dåden i Minnesota.
A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker’s husband in ‘an act of targeted political violence,’ law enforcement officials said Saturday. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said.
Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ (New York Times, 14/6)