NO KINGS DAY, AMERICAN VOICES, ANNAPOLIS

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Jim Acosta

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday you saw the stories of millions of Americans joining the No Kings Day protests in cities and towns across America. Our 3-hour live program with Don Lemon Joy-Ann Reid and Jim Acosta broadcast live on Substack and YouTube, drew hundreds of thousands of viewers and countless comments from people who attended huge events and hundreds of smaller ones around the country.

Today we want to zoom in and focus our spotlight on just one of those events. In our ongoing American Voices series, we dispatched our photojournalist colleague Bethany Swain, Swain Domain to one of those smaller events to give you an idea of what your fellow Americans believe and are saying about the role of the president, the future of American democracy, and most importantly, the history of the US Army. Today's American Voices piece focuses on Annapolis, Maryland.

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0:00.0	Show me what democracy looks like.
0:02.0	This is what democracy looks like.
0:05.0	Having now finished the work assigned me.
0:08.0	This was really cool to be here today.
0:10.0	It was very symbolic and I think very powerful.
0:13.0	I retire from the great theater of action.
0:16.0	And I thought, what's the point of owning a crab mascot costume if I'm not going to wear it? And bidding an affectionate farewell.
0:23.6	This is where the birth of democracy happened.
0:26.6	To this august body under whose orders I have so long acted.
0:30.6	The people who lived in America said, you're going to be our next king,
0:33.6	because that's the way it happened all throughout history.
0:35.6	The commanding general of the army who defeated the enemy took over as the king. When George Washington addressed Congress,
0:43.4	here at Annapolis, this is where they were meeting at this time during the war.
0:46.3	Ladies are allowed today. And said, no, I don't want to be king.
0:55.0	I hereby offer my commission.
0:58.0	And that was so radical.
1:01.0	And leave all the employments of public life.
1:05.0	Because it was the peaceful transfer of power.
1:09.0	I figured that I have to do something transfer of power.
1:14.6	I figured that I have to do something, and this was one of the sort of creative ideas I sort of had.
1:18.6	To relinquish his office as commander in chief.
1:23.6	This started the whole no King's legacy in America.
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