US senator joined by AOC, who slams Trump’s ‘corrupt and disastrous tariff scheme’ as ploy to counterpoint company cronies.
Tens of hundreds of individuals have gathered in the US metropolis of Los Angeles to listen to Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who’ve been organising rallies in opposition to the rising affect of billionaires and companies in politics below President Donald Trump’s administration.
Sanders took to the stage on the Gloria Molina Grand Park on Saturday, the newest cease on his ongoing “combating oligarchy” tour of the nation, telling the group that Trump was shifting the nation in the direction of “an authoritarian type of society”.
“Mr Trump, we ain’t going there!” he stated, drawing applause from 36,000 individuals who reportedly attended the occasion, which featured a lineup of politicians and musicians, together with people legends Neil Younger and Joan Baez.
Ocasio-Cortez, who’s popularly often called AOC, hit out at Trump’s “corrupt and disastrous tariff scheme”, saying it was not about boosting home manufacturing however relatively about market manipulation.
“It was about hurting retirees and on a regular basis folks within the [stock] selloff, so Trump may quietly enrich his associates who he nudged to purchase [in] the dip earlier than reversing all of it the subsequent morning,” she informed the fired-up crowd.
AOC: Donald Trump is a legal. A legal discovered responsible of 34 felony counts of fraud. In fact he’s mendacity and manipulating the inventory market too. He’s making himself, the billionaires who again him and the members of Congress who commerce with him wealthy, not you, not me, not the… pic.twitter.com/Pk2oxZqyuo
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 12, 2025
Reporting from the rally, Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds stated Sanders’ tour, which has been occurring for 2 months, was “a part of a rising motion of resistance” to the Trump administration and its insurance policies, notably its makes an attempt to roll again the social security internet and supply tax breaks to rich People.
David Rasmussen, who attended Saturday’s occasion, informed Al Jazeera: “We’ve all obtained to stand up collectively, combat it, push it again, make one thing else occur as a result of this can’t go on.”
The progressive, leftist rhetoric on the occasion has resonated with folks against Trump’s insurance policies and with these disillusioned in established Democrats’ lack of political resistance to Trump.
Reynolds identified that the tour would even be reaching out to voters in states like Idaho, Utah and Montana who voted for Trump in November’s election within the hope of connecting with these experiencing “purchaser’s remorse”.
“We live in a second the place a handful of billionaires management the financial and political lifetime of our nation,” Sanders stated, telling supporters that their presence on the occasion would make Trump and his tech billionaire ally Elon Musk “very nervous”.
