Nationwide Protests Against President Trump's Policies Across the US
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00:00The news from the international stage is that there is a lot of protest against Donald Trump's policies all over the US.
00:07People from Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities are on the streets.
00:12Bureau Chief Washington D.C. Jahanzeb Ali is with us. Let's talk to him.
00:16Jahanzeb, tell us, there was a lot of anger in the public regarding the executive orders from the first day.
00:22But now people are on the streets because of Trump tariff?
00:28Look, there is not a single issue on this.
00:33All the executive orders, people's jobs have been terminated, budget cuts have been made.
00:38And many such actions are being made which are openly against the US regime.
00:43And these demonstrations that took place all over the US this week,
00:47were in the name of 50 states, 50 protests.
00:51Approximately 20,000 people took to the streets in Washington, D.C.
00:57and took to the National Mall.
00:59And we saw posters against Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the demonstrations.
01:04In which it was said that these two people are making decisions against the US regime.
01:10They are terminating jobs.
01:12They are misbehaving with immigrants.
01:16And the special thing about these demonstrations was that there was not a single organization that arranged these demonstrations.
01:24This whole campaign was run on social media.
01:27And we saw that every generation, every nation, every color of people participated in these demonstrations.
01:32And people, along with their entire families, elders, children, women,
01:37were seen in large numbers in these demonstrations.
01:40And around the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., you could see people from all over.
01:45You could see them in Boston, LA, Houston.
01:50And there were a lot of people.
01:52Dr. Mubasher Chaudhary has joined us now.
01:55He is a journalist. Let's talk to him as well.
01:57Dr. Chaudhary, thank you so much for your time.
01:59Basically, as Mr. Jahanzaib said, this is not a politically motivated protest.
02:05The opponents did not call this a protest.
02:08People took to the streets through social media campaigns.
02:10Is it too early for Trump?
02:12This is such a big protest against him.
02:14And people are constantly upset with his policies.
02:16Are they losing their acceptance?
02:21Yes, look, in Atlanta, D.C., in Boston, in big metropolises,
02:32people have come out and expressed their opinions.
02:42Basically, this is a democratic process.
02:45People felt that I pressurized them a lot.
02:51But they came out.
02:53And they basically spoke.
02:56And they had the rallies.
02:58That's a democratic process.
03:01Eventually, it will happen in ballot boxes.
03:05When people will go to the elections,
03:10they will decide what will come out of the ballot boxes.
03:16The rallies matter a lot.
03:18But some people come and say something.
03:23If this wave continues, do you think the Democrats will win in the midterm elections?
03:33Look, absolutely.
03:35Every government loses in the midterm elections.
03:39This is a given.
03:41In the next year and a half, Republicans will absolutely lose the majority in the House.
03:50And there is no question in that.
03:53There will be such a majority that this question...
03:56Look, the two things that were in Florida, they were given.
04:02But the toss-up was for Wisconsin, for the judge.
04:09Democrats have won in that.
04:12This means that in the next midterm elections, the Democrats will have a landslide.
04:20So whatever Trump wants to do now, he has a year and a half.
04:26Whatever you want to do, you have the House, you have the Senate, you have the White House.
04:32Judiciary is questionable.
04:34There are very good decisions being made in the judiciary.
04:38I told you yesterday that they are making the right decisions.
04:42There are a couple of judges among them.
04:44They appointed them.
04:45But they are very fair-minded judges.
04:47They are making very good decisions.
04:49That doesn't mean that whatever Trump says, they will believe him.
04:52Although Trump had appointed them.
04:54But this whole process is going on.
04:57This all-democratic process.
04:59Look, no process is ever perfect.
05:05We are coming to that.
05:08Look, the tariffs that have been imposed.
05:12Go back to the United States.
05:15In the time of Herbert Hoover, tariffs were imposed.
05:18Which failed to give the United States any benefit.
05:27All economists are basically scratching their heads.
05:33PhDs, scholars, no one knows what is going to happen.
05:37The stock market is basically nervous.
05:42The stock market has lost 7 trillion.
05:49Because they don't know.
05:52Definitely, when there are tariffs and taxes, inflation will increase.
05:57Let's have a family discussion.
05:59Pakistan-India Democrat, Dr. Asif Qadhi has joined us.
06:01Dr. Qadhi, thank you so much for your time.
06:03Isn't it too soon for Trump that people came out on the streets?
06:06Although his election manifesto was very popular.
06:10And people were joining him.
06:12And he also stated it.
06:14But didn't the wave in the United States change very soon?
06:18Look, all this is happening because of Trump's policy.
06:22His policies and the way he has implemented them.
06:26The reaction came from him.
06:28And the Democratic Party got a chance.
06:31Therefore, protests are taking place in every city.
06:35I think if this continues, it can have a bad effect in the midterm elections.
06:43Basically, people were upset about the executive orders from day one.
06:50But people couldn't tolerate the tariff plan.
06:55And they came out on the streets because of inflation.
06:58Look, initially, tariff plans are successful.
07:02But in the long term, your incentives...
07:05In the United States, when manufacturing is reduced...
07:08In the long term, this is not a good thing.
07:11And the tariffs that are being implemented by the taxis...
07:14The weak countries will fall and compromise with them.
07:18But the strong countries won't do it.
07:21And this will affect the economy.
07:23And you already know that Wall Street has gone down.
07:27And a lot of people are understanding that these policies...
07:31The way they are going to implement them...
07:34There is no popular support for it.
07:36That's why people are protesting.
07:38Thank you Dr. Asif Qadhi and Dr. Mubasher Chaudhary.