Nantucket Current | Hundreds Protest Trump On Main Street During “No…

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday afternoon in downtown Nantucket to protest President Donald Trump’s administration during a so-called “No Kings” rally, one of the hundreds of similar demonstrations that took place around the country over the weekend.

With Main Street closed from Federal Street to the Pacific National Bank, protestors came together holding signs, singing songs, and decrying what they described as the authoritarian and fascist policies of President Trump.

The rally was organized by Indivisible Nantucket, the local chapter of the national organization Indivisible, which was founded by Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, two former Democratic congressional aides, in response to Trump’s election.

“Get your undertrained and overpaid ICE agents out of our cities and towns,” Willy LeMay said to the crowd. LeMay, a member of Indivisible Nantucket, was one of the organizers of the protest. “Their abusive and illegal tactics are un-American and amount to nothing more than kidnapping. They are no better than Hitler’s Gestapo! And the Gestapo didn’t wear masks. The only people who are benefiting from your racist immigration policies are the prison-industrial complex.”

In addition to LeMay, former Nantucket High School teacher and island historian Peter Panchy addressed the crowd with sharp criticisms of President Trump’s administration. Beyond those remarks, several speakers joined forces to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, including James Greider, Chuck Gifford, Pam Murphy, Scott Corry, Pete Sendelbach, and Joe Conason.

While Indivisible Nantucket organizers estimated the crowd at 850 to 1,000 people, aerial photos of the protest taken by Kit Noble showed roughly 325 people in attendance.

After the speeches and remarks at the top of Main Street, the protestors marched around downtown Nantucket, from Centre Street, to Broad Street, then South Water Street, and back up Main Street.

In response to the nationwide protests, which were attended by millions of people, President Trump posted the following AI-generated video of himself as “King Trump,” flying a jet over the protestors and dropping brown excrement on them: