Women's March on Washington brings thousands of protesters

As hundreds of thousands of Americans filled the streets of the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington, actress Ashley Judd read a poem that compared Donald Trump to Hitler.
Judd was reciting a poem written by a 19-year-old from Tennessee when she read the line: 'I feel Hitler in these streets, a mustache traded for a toupee.'
The poem was a celebration of 'nasty women', as Trump so famously called Hillary Clinton during a debate before the presidential election.


'I am a nasty women,' Judd began as she read the poem. 'I'm not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto dust.'
'I'm not as nasty as your own daughter being your favorite sex symbol, your wet dreams infused with your own genes,' she read later, clearly referencing Ivanka.

'I’m not as nasty as confederate flags being tattooed across my cities, maybe the south is actually going to rise, maybe for some it never really fell.'
Judd continued to proudly repeat the phrase 'I'm a nasty women' as the crowd of thousands continued to cheer.
'And our p***ies ain’t for grabbing, they’re for reminding you that our walls are stronger than America’s ever will be,' she concluded.
'Our p*****s are for our pleasure, for birthing new generations of filthy, vulgar, nasty, proud, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh, generations of nasty women.'
Judd was just one of the big names to speak at the march's rally at the National Mall for a sea of protesters in pink 'p***yhats', knitted beanies with car ears that have become the unofficial accessory of the march.
Officials said the crowd in Washington could be more than half a million people, more than double expectations.
So many people descended on DC for the Women's March on Washington that they actually won't be able to physically march in the streets.
The official march also had to be canceled in Chicago when more than 250,000 people arrived to demonstrate.
Organizers estimated three million people would march worldwide.
Madonna, like Judd, also took a defiant stand against Trump as she took to the podium, even telling the crowd she had thought a lot about 'blowing up the White House' but knew that it 'wouldn't change anything'.
The surprise guest, whose name was on the list of speakers for the event, asked the crowd: 'Are you ready to shake up the world? Welcome to the revolution of love.'
'To the rebellion, to our refusal as women to accept this new age of tyranny,' she continued. 'Where not just women are endangered but all marginalized people.'
‘Where being uniquely different right now might truly be considered a crime. 'It took this this moment of darkness to wake us the f***k up,' she exclaimed.

'It seemed as though we had all slipped into a fall sense of comfort, that justice would prevail and that good would win in the end. Well good did not win this election, but good will win in the end.'
'So what today means is that we are far from the end, today marks the beginning, the beginning of our story.'
'The revolution starts here, the fight for the right to be free, to be who we are, to be equal, lets march together through this darkness and with each step know that we are not afraid.'
'That we are not alone, that we will not back down, that there is power in our unity, and that no opposing force stands a chance in the face of true solidarity.'
'And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything, f*** you,' she proclaimed.
'F*** you,' Madonna screamed again as the crowd cheered and CNN quickly cut from the live feed, apologizing for airing the profanity.
Madonna then launched into two of her classic hits, Express Yourself and Human Nature, changing one of the lyrics in the latter song to 'Donald Trump suck a d***'.
Protesters chanted 'Thank you Obama!' before the rally kicked off at 10am with a speech from actress America Ferrera at what is believed to be the largest inauguration-related demonstration in US history.
‘The president is not America, his cabinet is not America,' Ferrera began. ‘We are America, and we are here to stay. We march for our families, for our neighbors, for our futures.’
‘We march today for the moral core of this nation, against which our president is waging a war.'
‘We are gathered here across the country and the world to say Mr Trump we refuse,' Ferrera continued.
'We reject the demonization of our Muslim brothers and sisters, we demand an end to the system murder and incarceration of our black brothers and sisters, we will not give our rights to safe and legal abortions, we will not ask our LGBTQ families to go backwards, we will not go from being a nation of immigrants to a nation of ignorance.’

'We won’t build walls and we won't see the worst in each other and we won’t turn our backs on the more than 750,000 young immigrants in this country.'