WASHINGTON — Protesting the direction of the country under , people will gather Saturday in the nation’s capital and communities across the U.S. for demonstrations.

This is the since Trump's return to the White House and it is expected to be the largest. It comes against the backdrop of a that not only has closed federal but is testing the core balance of power as an aggressive executive confronts in ways that organizers warn is a slide toward American authoritarianism.

More than 2,600 rallies are planned in cities large and small, organized by hundreds of coalition partners.

Trump himself is away from Washington at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

“They say they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” Trump said in a Fox News interview airing early Friday, before he departed for

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