Saturday’s No Kings protests drew nearly 7 million people, according to organizers, with more than 2,700 events held in 50 states. So what was Donald Trump’s response to one of the biggest demonstrations against him and his administration? It’s likely that all anyone will remember is the poop-jet video. But there was much more to it. Rather than picking a single counterargument and sticking to it, Team Trump went with an “all of the above” approach. Over the weekend, responses from White House officials and Trump himself ranged from shrugging off the protests to sharing a barrage of AI-generated pro–American king memes to insisting that the president is no monarch to threatening new power grabs. Here’s a guide to Trump’s chaotic protest-response strategy.

In the lead-up to Saturday’s No Kings protests, multiple Republican officials warned that they were actually “hate America” rallies.

“I bet you you’ll see Hamas supporters. I bet you’ll see antifa types. I bet you’ll see the Marxists on full display. The people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson.

But on Saturday, the White House claimed that Trump didn’t even care about these bands of alleged radical leftists running amok across the nation, as the New York Times

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