Several thousand people, mostly women, gathered in Washington on Saturday (Jan 18) to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with some wearing the pink hats that marked the much larger protest against his first inauguration in 2017.
In Franklin Park, one of three kickoff locations for the “People’s March” that will wind through downtown, protesters gathered in light rain to rally for gender justice and bodily autonomy.
Other protesters gathered at two other parks also near the White House, with one group focused on democracy and immigration and another on local Washington issues, before heading toward the march’s final gathering at the Lincoln Memorial.Protests against Trump’s inauguration are much smaller than in 2017, in part because the US women’s rights movement fractured after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
