NBC News' Jacob Soboroff reports from Los Angeles City Hall where thousands of protesters have gathered for a 'No Kings' protest against the Trump administration and ahead of the president's Washington D.

A 33-mile trip from one protest in Annapolis, Md., to the parade grandstand in front of the White House was like a journey between two different countries.

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

That’s part of why George Atkinson, a former high school government teacher, felt compelled to join a protest in downtown Houston on Saturday. The 89-year-old affixed a sign to his walker that read, “The clothes have no emperor! He’s all hat and no cattle!”

An article published June 15 incorrectly reported that all of the June 14 No Kings protests were put together by the organization Indivisible. Some of the protests, including the San Jose rally,

The"No Kings" protests are planned to oppose what they see as Trump's power grab. The number of planned events is nearly double that of the April 5 "Hands Off" protest that saw millions of Americans turn out in big and small cities nationwide.