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The “No Kings” movement announced a nationwide event set for June 14, which is President Trump’s 80th birthday.
By Max Rego
May 30, 2026
The “No Kings” movement announced a nationwide event set for June 14, which is President Trump’s 80th birthday.
“The next 250 starts with us. As America approaches its anniversary about what story we tell. We can let strongman politics and corruption define the moment,” the movement’s website states. “Or we can make the story of America about people coming together — across race, background, identity, belief, and community — to defend our rights and build a future rooted in people’s power.”
“On June 14, we rise up, we sing out, and we keep organizing.”
A 90-minute concert in New York City has been planned to headline the event. The “Rise Up, Sing Out” concert is set to take place at The Town Hall in midtown Manhattan and is scheduled to feature performances and appearances by singers Sasha Allen, Bette Midler, Patti Smith and Rufus Wainwright, along with actor Jane Fonda and liberal commentator Joy Reid.
The Committee for the First Amendment, a Hollywood-based advocacy group that Fonda restarted in October, is sponsoring the concert. The “No Kings” movement is also holding 18 watch parties in 11 different states for the event.
“Rise Up, Sing Out is about reclaiming patriotism as something inclusive, participatory, and rooted in care for one another — not power, pageantry, or one person’s spotlight,” the movement’s website adds.
Since Trump returned to office, three sets of No Kings protests — which were different than what is planned on June 14 — have occurred.
The first set of demonstrations took place on June 14, 2025, coinciding with Trump’s 79th birthday as well as the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C.
The movement again held protests in October 2025 and March 2026. Two progressive organizations — 50501 and Indivisible — are involved in organizing the demonstrations along with other partners around the country.
In October, Trump rejected that he was a king.
“They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” he told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” referring to the protesters.
On the same day as the upcoming event, the UFC will hold several fights on the South Lawn of the White House. Construction of a temporary octagon on the grounds began this week.
