{"id":14638,"date":"2025-10-20T04:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-no-kings-a-stunt-for-democrats-amid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:20:17","slug":"johnson-no-kings-a-stunt-for-democrats-amid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-no-kings-a-stunt-for-democrats-amid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: &#8216;No Kings&#8217; a &#8216;stunt&#8217; for Democrats amid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the &ldquo;No Kings&rdquo; protests against President Trump this weekend were a &ldquo;stunt&rdquo; created by Democrats because they needed &ldquo;cover&rdquo; amid the ongoing government shutdown. In an interview on ABC News&rsquo;s &ldquo;This Week,&rdquo; Johnson suggested there was no need for Trump&rsquo;s critics to join No Kings demonstrations this weekend&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5562926-johnson-no-kings-protest-trump-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said the &ldquo;No Kings&rdquo; protests against President Trump this weekend were a &ldquo;stunt&rdquo; created by Democrats because they needed &ldquo;cover&rdquo; amid the ongoing government shutdown. In an interview on ABC News&rsquo;s &ldquo;This Week,&rdquo; Johnson suggested there was no need for Trump&rsquo;s critics to join No Kings demonstrations this weekend&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}