Cities large and small across the U.S. saw crowds gather Saturday for planned "No Kings" protests against President Trump.

Thousands of "No Kings Day" protests are set to be held throughout the country on Saturday to protest the Trump administration.

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!”

More than 1,500 events were announced throughout the U.S. to send a loud message to President Donald Trump: “In America, we don’t do kings.”

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.

Demonstrators unfurled banners that read, “No Crown for a Clown” and “Trumpster Fire,” as they screamed, “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Donald Trump has got to go!”

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

The largely peaceful protests during the "No Kings Day" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles took an intense turn in the afternoon. Police ordered the crowd to disperse at about 4:15 p.m. PDT near Alameda Street and Temple Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division.