Mark Ruffalo is invoking Marvel superheroes throughout demonstrations towards Donald Trump.

At a protest in Bryant Park in New York Metropolis on Saturday — one in every of 1000’s of countrywide “No Kings” protests opposing Donald Trump’s insurance policies — the Hulk actor referred to as on his fellow Individuals to face up for his or her beliefs. 

“We’ll need to be courageous if we need to be free,” Ruffalo mentioned throughout a speech at the protest. “Being courageous for what we maintain expensive — our freedoms, our democracy, and one another — it is on us, guys. Actually, collectively, we’re the Avengers now. Nobody’s gonna come and save us, man. Individuals unite.”

Earlier in his remarks at the protest — which was held June 14 to coincide with President Trump’s army parade celebrating his 79th birthday in Washington, D.C. — Ruffalo made an impassioned plea for peace and mutual respect. 

“We’re holding on for expensive life and what’s expensive to us about being alive,” the 13 Happening 30 star mentioned. “What’s expensive to me is the feeling of calm and peace and security. What’s expensive to me is my well being and my household and my buddies and my work and my neighbors and my group and all the totally different stunning folks of this nation.”

Ruffalo added that he believes the United States was based on the precept “that we did not need to be dominated by a king, or a monarch, or a dictator, or a supreme chief, or some crappy-ass CEO,” seemingly in reference to Trump’s Wall Road profession and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s latest affect on the federal authorities. “That sucked,” Ruffalo mentioned. “We hated that.”

The Highlight actor additionally referred to as for Individuals to uphold “the easy notion which you could’t be arrested and tossed right into a dungeon, or a detention heart, or a focus camp, or some damp basement with out a honest trial,” alluding to the escalated ICE raids and deportations underneath Trump’s second administration. “We do not f— with that,” he added.

“Sadly, at the moment Donald Trump and the administration of billionaires, crackpots, and ICE brigades have taken over,” Ruffalo mentioned. “We now have a king and his court docket and his beige henchmen, and so they’re trampling on our rights and our legal guidelines and our freedoms, making themselves richer with taxpayer {dollars} and making us much less secure with their love of different kings and dictators and the likes of [Vladimir] Putin and [Benjamin] Netanyahu and Kim Jong Un of the world.”

The actor defined the inspiration for the protests’ timing. “Whereas Trump at the moment is blowing $45 million of our tax cash on his kingly dictator army birthday bash in our nation’s capital, we’re gathering right here by the lots of of 1000’s in areas of 1000’s round the USA and the world in the spirit of our founding fathers and our brothers and sisters of the Boston Tea Celebration,” he mentioned. “We’re patriots, and we’re lovers of democracy.”

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Round 2,000 demonstrations underneath the “No Kings” banner unfolded on Saturday, lots of which had turnouts in the thousands. The demonstrations comply with every week of anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that prompted Trump’s controversial deployment of the Nationwide Guard and a curfew instatement by Mayor Karen Bass.

Different entertainers who attended protests on Saturday included Ilana Glazer (who spoke instantly earlier than Ruffalo), Susan Sarandon, Kerry Washington, Glenn Shut, Ayo Edebiri, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, AnnaSophia Robb, and Emily Osment.

Watch Ruffalo’s full speech at the “No Kings” protest in New York above.