Correction, June 16, 2025 8:23 am: In an earlier version of this article, the given name of President Donald Trump was misspelled.
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After a day that saw thousands pass through Munn Park to attend Pride in The Park, hundreds began to gather there at the south end, along East Main Street, on Saturday just after 5 p.m. This time, they came to protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies.
The event was held in conjunction with a nationwide wave of No Kings protests.
In Lakeland, they came with a wide variety of signs, some supporting the rights of women, of minorities and of immigrants, and others denouncing authoritarianism, as well as American flags and a few Mexican flags.
The crowd grew over the next hour and a half, before the group was scheduled to march through downtown to the office of U.S. Rep. Scott Franklin, eventually numbering somewhere close to 300 people.
In the park they listened to several speakers who exhorted them to carry on resisting any effort to curtail their rights or freedoms.
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