Sunshine Patriots: Protesting Trump in Port Angeles

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By Doug MacDonald
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Regrettably I missed any of the big and bigger “No Kings” demonstrations everywhere in Seattle on Saturday, owing to a conflicting family event in Port Angeles. But I was utterly astonished in downtown Port Angeles Saturday at noon to find and join three blocks of South Lincoln Street jammed with hundreds and hundreds of “No Kings” protesters, three and four deep in places on the sidewalks and crowding the lawn of the old Clallam County Courthouse.

In Washington, D.C., on Saturday it rained, or at least drizzled, on Donald Trump’s big birthday militarist hoopla. Haunted by small crowd humiliation, he surely will be blaming the rain on his parade for keeping his faithful at home. It would be a smarter recognition for him that on Saturday millions of fellow Americans went into the streets, parks, and plazas all across the country, in all kinds of weather. These protesters were giving their boisterous and collective thumbs down to six disastrous months of Trump’s authoritarian un-American presidency.

Donald Trump has probably never heard of Port Angeles. He likely couldn’t find it on a map. He is surely ignorant and uninterested in its hardscrabble hard-working history and character. He would not grasp that it is a world apart from Los Angeles, to which at first hearing he might conflate it. If someone told him it’s somewhere out there close by crazy-town Seattle, they could not more egregiously mislead him about what he would find if he actually learned about Port Angeles, a former timber town.

His courtiers (Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, JD Vance, Russell Vought, and Kristi Noem) would probably try to assuage his own personal dud of a Saturday by assuring him that the big protest turnout in little far-off Port Angeles only reflected a beautiful sunny day, nothing like his dank and dreary Saturday in Washington, D.C.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/06/17/sunshine-patriots-protesting-trump-in-port-angeles/