Thousands of Durham residents filled CCB Plaza on Saturday morning, then marched down West Chapel Hill Street to Durham Central Park as part of the nationwide "No Kings" protests targeting the Trump administration and the ongoing U.S. war with Iran. The demonstration was one of hundreds held across the country the same day.
- Speakers from the Party of Socialism and Liberation, the Union of Southern Service Workers, the Triangle Amazon union CAUSE, and Veterans for Peace Triangle addressed the crowd after the march. Protesters chanted "no more war" and "lock him up" as drummers and tambourine players kept time through the streets.
- Dan Read, 72, a Durham Army veteran who served from 1974 to 1976, drew a line from Saturday's march to the Vietnam War protests he joined in the 1970s. "I'm sad that my grandchildren, especially, are gonna inherit this," he said.
- Durham lawyer Alex Charns, 69, had been arrested the day before inside the Pentagon alongside 27 other North Carolinians protesting the Iran war. His mother survived Nazi-occupied Poland by helping Jewish neighbors escape after her father was convicted of treason for smuggling Jews into Lithuania.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released around the same time put Trump's approval rating at 36 percent, with more than six in ten Americans telling Pew Research they disapprove of his handling of the war.