Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said Monday that the recent "No Kings" rallies reveal how American politics remains centered around President Donald Trump.
Saturday's string of anti-Trump "No Kings" protests united left-wing groups that have defended authoritarian regimes while accusing Trump of acting like one. During an appearance on Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier," Hume noted that while the demonstrations highlighted a deeper reality about modern political identity.
"If you looked at it, you might have thought it was a cross between the faculty lounge and the retirement home. But nonetheless, they're all voters. They count. And the fact that they turned out tells you something. And what I think it tells you is just how our politics has turned out over the last eight or nine years," Hume told host Bret Baier. "It is all about Trump. It is about resistance to Trump. And it is about support for Trump. Support prevailed in 2016. Resistance prevailed in 2020. And his support prevailed again in 2024. And it's still going on."
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Hume said that this ongoing clash defines the nation's political reality.
"Same battle. Same guy. You know, I've called in the political classes of our time. But he is the issue. Everything else is secondary. Everything. And that's what these rallies suggest," Hume added.
When asked about the rallies' branding, Hume dismissed the "No Kings" label as "kind of ridiculous" and "absurd."
"We don't have a king, as the president said, and if we did, it's not clear that protests like the No Kings rally would be permitted," Hume noted.
Hume pointed out that Trump, like any other U.S. president, came to power through elections and governed under the constraints of the Constitution.
"This president, remember, came to power by running for election three times. His major program was put into place by a vote of democratically elected members of Congress. Kings don't have to worry about things like that, nor do they have to worry about the courts restraining them. So, it's an absurd name," Hume explained.
Dozens of protests erupted nationwide Saturday targeting Trump and his administration's policies. Throughout the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential race, Democrats repeatedly portrayed Trump and other Republicans as fascists or threats to democracy.
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Organizers of the "No Kings" protests claimed that 7 million Americans joined 2,700 demonstrations across major U.S. cities to reject what they called "authoritarianism" and to affirm that the nation "does not belong to a king," according to the movement's website. The group declared that the United States "will not be ruled by fear, force, or one man's power grab."
Some demonstrators used violent rhetoric during the rallies. In Seattle, a protester said he wanted to kill White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, calling him a Nazi.
In Portland, Maine, a woman told a reporter that reading Trump's obituary would make for a "wonderful birthday present." In Chicago, another protester appeared to make a "neck shot" gesture toward counter-protesters displaying a flag honoring Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot in the neck on Sept. 10.
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