Thousands peacefully gathered Saturday to protest the Trump administration as part of a nationwide 'No Kings' protest in nearly 2,000 locations.

Tens of thousands of Portlanders marched across the Willamette River this afternoon in a show of numbers aimed at opposing President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and mocking his birthday celebration.

The largest is expected to take place in Portland, where at least five separate demonstrations are planned in and outside of downtown. Two downtown events will happen on Naito Parkway. One will gather at the Salmon Street Springs and another will form at the Battleship Oregon Memorial in Tom McCall Waterfront Park.

Events held in big cities, small towns and everything in between served as counterpoint to military parade in Washington coinciding with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.

A nationwide protest is planned on President Donald Trump's birthday to counter a large military parade taking place the same day in Washington, D.C.

Organizers call the mass protests nationwide a "day of defiance" in opposition to Trump administration policies.

“The most threatening sound to an oligarch is laughter.”

Around 2,000 protests were planned on Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump. Large crowds turned out in cities like Portland, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles – and in smaller communities in traditionally conservative areas.