In protest to President Donald Trump and his administration, Grand Valley residents gathered at Canyon View Park Saturday for a "No Kings" protest, being one of the nearly 2,000 protests that took place across the country.

Across the country, an estimated 5 million protesters took part in more than 2,000 protests, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, a co-sponsor of the nationwide protest. In the Bay Area, more than 50 protests were planned stretching south from Gilroy north to Santa Rosa.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor’s “No Kings” protest on Saturday largely took aim at President Donald Trump, but two of the event’s speakers went off script with a different message.

Between activism, election results and protest turnout, the prevailing political winds suggest the backlash to the president is real.

Kevin Krebs, arrested near a "No Kings" protest in West Chester, was allegedly armed with a variety of weapons and ammunition.

A man was arrested after DPS identified a “credible threat” toward legislators attending Saturday’s “No Kings” protest at the Texas State Capitol.

The ‘No Kings’ protest rally in Elgin Saturday drew a huge crowd to Kimball Street armed with signs bearing messages like, “Rejecting Kings since 1776,” and chanting in opposition to

"In America, we don't do kings," the No Kings website reads. "They've defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. [cq] No thrones. No crowns. No kings."