'Rage Against the Regime' protests planned against Trump [View all]

Source: USA Today

Updated Aug. 1, 2025, 7:23 a.m. ET


Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather nationwide on Saturday, Aug. 2 to ‒ as organizers have dubbed it ‒ “Rage Against the Regime” of President Donald Trump.

Organizers say the demonstrations, the latest in a series of peaceful summertime protests in hundreds of locations across the country, are meant to mobilize masses of people against the administration's actions.

They are particularly concerned about aggressive immigration enforcement, dismantling of government programs and agencies from Medicaid to the National Weather Service, and attacks on democratic institutions, according to a news release. They also want to draw attention to the Trump administration's refusal to release more information about deceased child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The name of this day of protest is both a play on the name of the American rock band Rage Against the Machine, and an expression of public frustration. “People don’t know what to do with their rage,” Hunter Dunn, a national spokesperson for the 50501 protest group, which is organizing the rally, told USA TODAY. “Let’s give them something productive.”

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