Trump Admin to Investigate 'No Kings' Protests

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Oct 20, 2025 at 02:26 AM EDT updated Oct 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT


President Donald Trump said his administration is probing whether the billionaire philanthropist George Soros "and other radical left lunatics" helped to fund the "No Kings" protests on Saturday.

Through his foundations, Soros has heavily funded progressive causes across the world, including in the U.S., and become a bête noire of the conservative right. Trump has also recently designated the far-left Antifa movement as a terrorist organization. “I guess (the protest) was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One as he traveled back to Washington, D.C., from Florida on Sunday night. “It looks like it was, we're checking it out.”

Why It Matters

The “No Kings” protests are an illustration of how divided America is right now, with millions gathering across the United States on Saturday. Organizers said nearly 7 million people attended around 2,700 protests in every state across the U.S. on Saturday. International demonstrations were also seen in several European countries, including Germany, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.

Trump's claim that Soros may have funded the movement questions the legitimacy of the protests against him, implying that they may not be reflective of what people actually believe.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-investigate-no-kings-protests-soros-10903951

[sinkingfeeling]

1. OMG! The insanity continues in DC.

[Justice matters.]

37. Protected-by-the-gardians-of-pedophiles pedofelon wants a violent rebellion

so him and his sycophants can invoke the Insurrection Act to remain in power and keep serving putin's interests... they don't care about peaceful protests... it's just a big show for them... their real goal is to do everything they can think of to "spark" a violent rebellion J6-style (from the other side this time).

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Sadly, this is not satire.

[rurallib]

3. Funding? Whatever would Soros be funding?

There is probably a few expense, but for the most part it is people gathering in the same spot at the same time.

[ananda]

11. I know. This is classic projection.

Trump and his enablers have had to fund
all their rallies and functions.

[CurtEastPoint]

16. Posterboard and markers from Michael's? F'ing idiot Dump.

[redwitch]

38. I swear I paid for my 🐸 balloon myself!

I went to 3 rallies on Saturday and had a blast but I actually lost money since I took off work to go.

[NJCher]

71. bravo, you

I'd have done the same if I had to work. Had a blast, too!

We had frogs and bananas at ours! Plus a Scottish bagpipe player.

You can't beat these things for political entertainment.

[redwitch]

79. We had a bagpiper in our village rally!

And the Saratoga Springs rally coincided with the annual witches walk and it was great!

[tavernier]

64. Dollar Tree

Boards, markers, flags. 1.25 a piece. Out of my own pocket. Mr Soros hasn’t even volunteered to cover my exorbitant expenses.

[travelingthrulife]

48. I don't know but he owes me for parking.

[Bengus81]

51. What...you didn't get your $2500 check for marching?

[NJCher]

72. nah, I was busy writing

a post for which putin paid me $7000.

[ShazzieB]

70. Repubs claim that Soros is paying people to protest.

I don't know how many of them actually believe it, but every time there's a big protest, this trope gets trotted out. They just can't believe that huge numbers of people would take time out of our lives to do this just because we actually care about what's happening to this country. Among other things, that runs counter to one of their other favorite tropes - that anyone who opposes Trump "hates America." So they claim we must be getting paid!

It's pathetically childish and incredibly tiresome, but that's MAGA and the GOP for you!

[Rhiannon12866]

84. This falsehood has been around for a long time. At the "kids in cages" protest a handful of MAGAts showed up

With their full size flag and megaphone and caused problems for the well behaved crowd by disrupting traffic. I had a conversation with a lady who had spoken with them and she told me that they insisted that we were all bused in from New York City by George Soros. There were hundreds at this protest in our small city in Northeastern New York and we're a lot closer to Canada than New York City. Plus I saw numerous people that I knew.

[eppur_se_muova]

87. The Borowitz Report: GEORGE SOROS DECLARES BANKRUPTCY AFTER PAYING NO KINGS PROTESTORS

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016415851

[sleroy49]

74. Assuming he was funding it ...

and maybe even paid all the protesters, as claimed on Twitter, what is the crime being investigated?

[Old Testament Libera]

83. Soros buys and prints the signs,

And he sends us all a paycheck!

In Trump’s drug-addled dreams.

[mdbl]

4. Dump is too fucking stupid to realize people hate him because of himself

Pretty stupid to blame others for problems you created yourself.

[FakeNoose]

15. Exactly! Like the sign says ... "I'm not being paid to hate Chump"

[mdbl]

21. Same goes for politicians and judges allowing him to attain and remain in office.

They are completely complicit in the ruin of our society.

[NJCher]

73. and they will pay

because I'M going to investigate them.

Two can play this game, you know.

[popsdenver]

47. Any other criminal

as delusional as he is, would be in an institution for the criminally insane......

He is the Psychopathic Textbook case for defining DELUSIONAL


And without the Republican House and Senate, as well as the Republican U.S.S.C. justices, he wouldn't have survived his first day in office......and THEY, more than Trump, have brought forth where we are today.......Trump is merely like Reagan & WBush....front men and pawns for the people and groups, hiding in the shadows, behind smoke and mirrors, directing the whole mess.

Where did all the "old guard" Republican Party go????????? Taken over by the Fascist Corporations...........

[agingdem]

5. George Soros..Trump's ultimate Jewish boogeyman....

and as per usual Trump's verbal vomit is the ravings of a revenge-fueled psychopath..

[JT45242]

6. and is an anti-semitic dog whistle for his base...never forget that all Soros attacks are meant for the neoNazis

Soros is the Jewish boogeyman who works with other Jews to control the world.

Antisemitic rhetoric has just replaced the generic "jewish bankers and shylocks" with Soros.

Straight out of the Nazi playbook

[Grins]

7. ...and right on time!

And expected from the vile barrel-bottom shitweasel fuck-up for whom revenge and cruelty are his raison d'etre.

Have to admit I didn't see this one coming. But it should be easier to find the rally organizers than the 'organizers' for Antifa.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Time and resources spent not releasing the Epstein files and not spent hunting pedophiles. . . . . nt

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Yet Soros paid Scott Bessent

when the latter worked for the former.

[GopherGal]

10. So what, Donnie?

One team of moronic billionaires wants to blow their heirs' prospects by pissing their money away buying you the presidency.

If other billionaires want to subsidize inflatable reptile and amphibian costumes and a few cardboard signs (oh, and maybe a live polka band or two), so what? I admit this sudden blossoming of intellectual curiosity is long overdue, but getting bent out of shape because people want to mock your characterization of their cities as "war zones" or "hell-scapes' is just being oversensitive, you snowflake.

[WmChris]

12. Unfortunately

I'm still waiting for my check from the first No Kings rally.

[Ritabert]

13. Sorry Donny we did it for free

[calimary]

45. Yes we DID!

The event my friend and I attended on Saturday was big, lively, very colorfully appointed, and lots of fun, with a whole lot of every kind of humanity in joyful attendance.

No trace or mention of George Soros ANYWHERE you looked or read on any of the hundreds of protest signs. Not a single expression of credit or gratitude toward George Soros to be found, heard, or overheard.

[NJCher]

76. my organization is asking for funds

There's a Zoom meeting tonight and I'm pretty sure that's one thing that will be discussed.

If Soros was coming through with funds, I doubt they'd be asking.

[sop]

14. I haven't received my check for attending the local No Kings protest, and my Antifa membership card hasn't

arrived yet. Soros promised they'd be here in two weeks.

[Hope22]

29. Those and we are still hanging out

For our Iraq War and Anti Surge trips to DC. When we get are checks things are really start looking up!😂🤣

[LudwigPastorius]

17. "the far-left Antifa movement"

"far-left"?

You know what, Newsweek?

Go fuck yourself.

[sop]

26. Corporate media is helping Trump turn Antifa into the new Red Menace.

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Antifa party?"

[LudwigPastorius]

36. When you are an actual goddamned Nazi,...

everybody who isn't looks like a Bolshevik.

[Dr. T]

69. Anyone who resists is "radical left".

MAGAts will swear they are an innocent, peace loving oppressed minority. A MAGAt neighbor told me that with a straight face. I'll believe MAGAts are an oppressed minority when I read about them being dragged out of their houses in the middle of the night for no other reason than the color of their skin.

[Lonestarblue]

18. Trump and Republicans paid people to attend his rallies so they assume someone pays for the No Kings protests.

For the most part, there are no costs. People gather in local public spaces, bring homemade signs, and chant their protests. No one is paid to do that. It’s voluntary resistance to a corrupt fascist administration.

[usonian]

19. "we're checking it out." ... translation:

[in2herbs]

20. Question that f45 should be ask is how is his regime going to get enough LEOs to arrest the 8+ million No Kings

partiers and where is his regime going to incarcerate the 8+ million partiers who attended No Kings?

[Torchlight]

22. "I wanna investigate who's enabling Americans to engage in and use their own rights! So unfair!!!"

The plaque build-up on his brain may be teetering on its event-horizon.

[James48]

23. He's just mad because

George Soros got much better deal.

Trump paid millions to get those 2500 hired hands to attack the Capitol Building back in Jan 6, 2021, - And now he thinks Soros only paid $100K for a much bigger event, and got 7 million volunteer laborers for a penny a piece.


Trump is just had that Soros got a better deal.

[democrank]

24. Let's give a round of applause to the stunningly brilliant guy in the Oval Office.

Soros-funded No King rallies? Alrighty then. I spent about $3.00 on gas and found free parking. Bottom-Up folks don’t need funding from George Soros. We make our own signs and find our own way.

Trump should stick to his new all-gold decorator skills….or maybe spend some time trying to find out the names of the fishermen in those boats he’s blowing up. His brain just doesn’t seem to be able to handle the thought of millions of people using their own initiative to stand up and fight back.

[Ray Bruns]

25. Hey dipshit. No one has to pay anyone to protest you. We do it for free.

[Ocelot II]

27. He didn't (I never even got my check from the first one), but even if he did, so what?

It would have been perfectly legal for him, or anyone, to provide financial support for people who want to exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and petitioning for redress of grievances. Maybe he could have given away free cardboard and markers. So what? Trump's gang is infamous for advertising on Craigslist for people to hold signs at Trump rallies; why can't Soros do the same thing - except he doesn't have to because we're perfectly happy to do it all for free.

[FalloutShelter]

28. Your tax dollars at work.

[flashman13]

31. How so? Do you mean spending to shuttle Donald from golf course to golf course?

[FalloutShelter]

46. Wasting money on bullshit "investigations".

[hadEnuf]

30. Investigate this, Donny.

n/t

[BattleRow]

32. And when may we expect an investigation into who instigated and funded the January 6 insurrection?

[MIButterfly]

33. Oh, for Pete's sake.

That cretin is stupid times a thousand or maybe a million, but that's the way he thinks. Why would anybody do anything if there isn't any money to be made from it?

[riversedge]

34. I wish we had patriotic Republicans in Congress who could put a stop to this fleecing of tax payers!!

[Champp]

35. Bearing False Witness again and again, and claiming to be "Christian"

Is exactly the freaking Republican Fascist Party Anti-Christ


Americans can't be anti-fascist,
but Republicans are free to be deliberately anti-Christian in their words and deeds.

That's the damn Anti-Christ in action right there,

[R Merm]

39. And if he did fund it, so what.

Must spent how much backing trump during the election. And, how much free X messaging on top of the money.

[piddyprints]

40. Can I just say

How fucking sick and tired I am of having to read language from an American president describing ANYONE as “radical left lunatics?” This level of discourse is below anything we’re seen, even from the worst presidents in our lifetimes (except for Trump 1.0).

Oh, and I happened upon the FDA website this morning and saw a banner about the “Democrat-led government shutdown.” The propaganda, immaturity, and lack of any dignity from this regime is just too much to take.

[Dr. T]

75. Projection on their part.

Exchange "radical left lunatics" with "radical right lunatics" and you get an accurate description. We need to pound them with the word "radical" every chance we get. Radical MAGAts, worse than flesh-eating bacteria.

[Marie Marie]

41. STFU Donny.

[Warpy]

42. Let them alol be like old drunks throwing roundhouse puynches itto the air

while they look for the monolithic "Antfa" organization that is giving their Lard and Savior such a sad. Never mind it's Anti-Fa and they're pronouncing it wrong and it's not an organization but is a mindset that rejects totalitarianism and the rule of a man over the rule of law, it just has to be a vast organization and it must be destroyed!

If you've ever watched an old drunk throwing roundhouse punches into the air, you know eventually he'll land a solid one on himself and knock himself out (lots of experience in Boston) and all we have to do is wait and laugh.

Unfortunately, he'll probably try to arrest some people. No one will indict them on "evidence" from right wing bloggers with grudges.

[Vinca]

43. Wait. I thought he just said they amounted to nothing since so few people attended.

Guess it didn't cost George Soros much. LOL.

[hibbing]

44. Good dictation newsweak n/t

[Grim Chieftain]

49. Oh god, he's so pathetic

Grasping at straws. He's making himself look more desperate and pathetic every day, if that's possible.

Hey you fat orange felon. Shut up. Sit down. We the people have this.

[BadgerMom]

50. They'll run out of investigators soon.

He wants to investigate all opposition. There are too many who oppose him to investigate all of us.

[Deminpenn]

54. Not to mention Vought and company are busy firing and laying off career

FBI agents and DOJ attorneys and the rest of them are busy investigating "illegals".

[rampartd]

52. where cid soros bus us from?

we were pretesting there already.

and do the math. there are not that many busses in this hemisphere.

[Bengus81]

53. Just shows how successful it was that Donnie "pant load" Trump want to investigate

Oh yeah.....EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN!

[slightlv]

55. This isn't a joke to him... his mind sees it as a betrayal, and everyone else in the

government, including the republicans, are backing him on those thoughts... just embedding them further into his mind. He REALLY wants to outlaw the democratic party as a terrorist organization... but someone knows if he does that, the knock on effects when the repubs lose the government again (which they will) are too terrible for them to contemplate.

This is also the main reason I won't be on Social Media. DU is as far as I'll take it.... I truly feel at home here... which is probably a shame because the easiest fruit to pick is to do a "google" on liberal forums and go through them all. Maybe serve papers... I'm probably being overly paranoid, but in trump's world is there any such thing?!

[bmichaelh]

56. DOJ during Obama's terms did not do that

DOJ during Obama's terms did not investigate Tea Party or the Koch brothers when they protested.

MSM, stop normalizing Trump.

[Raven123]

57. That's one way to incentivize more protests

[Bristlecone]

58. This just tells me that the protests are eating him up inside

[mwb970]

59. What IS it with right-wing fools and George Soros?

I mean, this has been going on for decades.

[ificandream]

60. More taxpayer money wasted.

And just another fable to give his flock something to chew on.

[2na fisherman]

61. Money is Free Speech

So he wants the Supreme Court to interfere with the political activities of Soros and his money but not his own donors and grifting front groups?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

62. "I am Spartacus". NT

[GreenWave]

63. We get one billionaire on our side and he has thousands, then goes ape shit.

[Diraven]

65. Even if someone funded protests

It's not even against the law. The Koch brothers openly funded Tea Party protests for decades and no one ever considered going after them legally.

[JoseBalow]

66. Sounds like something a king would do

I can't think of anything more un-American than that.

[AllyCat]

67. He literally doesn't understand how much people despise him.

He can’t fathom that we do this of our own free will and without compensation because we want our democracy back and him in prison where he belongs.

[patphil]

68. We don't need George Soros to fund the cause of freedom in America.

This is our cause, and our purpose. We use our own resources to make it happen.
We are the true patriots. We stand for the Constitution and the rule of law.
We do what we do because we love America, and are determined to defend our beloved country from this domestic enemy that threatens to end 250 years of freedom.

We serve No King. We worship No Ruler.
We choose who will lead us, and expect that person to be worthy of our trust.

[Grammy23]

77. We decided to attend the No Kings Rally

kind of at the last minute on Saturday morning. I took a quick shower, dried my hair, dressed and then ransacked my craft room looking for materials to make a sign. I had a small piece of left-over foam board, a black marker and a red Sharpie, some red, blue and white ribbons and a small American flag on a thin dowel stick that was stuck in a can with pens and pencils. I quickly penciled NO KINGS on the foam board, traced over that with my markers, stapled ribbons on two corners and duct taped the flag on another corner. Badda Boom, badda bang…..Ready to show our support for the cause.

Total amount spent …..practically nothing. Zero dollars invested.

Return on investment……ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS! What a day!! What a fabulous day to be an American! It helped restore our sense of pride in showing up to express our dissatisfaction with Donald J. tRump. He just needs to get over himself. We the people have spoken loud and clear. We do not like you, tRumpolini, and are even less enchanted with your policies and actions. Watch out because we are looking forward to the next election. Your days as a wannabe bee dictator are coming to an end. Your crown is looking tarnished and tattered. Kind of fitting for a guy like you.

[Sogo]

78. "....they may not be reflective of what people actually believe."

You bet they don't, bucko....If we said what we actually believed, many of us would have a visit from the SS.....

[utahdog]

80. they would have been there

If a billionaire was handing out money to protest trump would have been there with his own sign.

[Deep State Witch]

81. Welcome to DU!

I think you'll fit right in here.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

82. Good one! Welcome to DU. At DU we call a zinger like that a "DUzie". . . . . nt

[Rhiannon12866]

85. Great first post, we need all the humor we can get these days!

[eppur_se_muova]

86. I'd love to be the one to report the conclusions of that report: "By all the best evidence, they really do hate you. "

".... and they do it for free."

[CBHagman]

88. "...implying that they may not be reflective of what people actually believe."

Oh, he knows what people believe. He got booed at a World Series game during his first administration.