DC report from DC media Group (note this was one of a huge number of protests nationally):
Washington DC—Thousands of citizens from across the DC-Maryland-Virginia region rallied at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery, for the third No Kings protest (NK3), the site where Trump plans to build the world’s largest arch, in honor of himself. They performed a skit with paper-mâché caricatures lampooning Trump and six of his most notorious staff and cabinet members. They spent weeks building the caricatures which included Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pat Bondi, White House Chief Advisor Steve Miller, FBI Director Kash Patel,White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and Vice President JD Vance.
The skit called out each cabinet member for their most egregious actions over the past year. Several of the organizers spoke about how the power of people was the strongest column and still standing up to authoritarianism.
Then they walked across Memorial Bridge into DC in a challenge to the rising autocratic rule of President Trump, his cabinet, and corrupt influencer billionaires. The NK3 march carried giant banners heralding their approach, “No Kings,” “Join Us,” and “Arrest Them,” referring to those protected by a cover up of the Epstein files.
Just behind the banners came the seven cartoonish paper-mâché heads, posted high on wooden stakes: one of Trump, and six of his most discredited appointees and cabinet members. The life-like heads bobbed like drifters among the sea of protesters carrying them across Memorial Bridge.
A team of drummers set the pace as they walked across the Memorial Bridge into Washington DC. They walked past the Lincoln Memorial, in the spirit of many social justice rallies of the past, including Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil rights rally where he delivered his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. They sang and chanted until they reached their goal at the Washington Monument where several spoke. Susan Douglas, Press Liaison of Third Act, Northern Virginia, said, “We unite to say, we the people have the power. After months of increasing lies, corruption, alarming cruelty, and willful disregard for the rule of law, we march to reject the current regime. No ICE. No war. No Kings.”