FOX News Channel’s Greg Gutfeld on Monday’s edition of “The Five” gave his take on the nationwide No Kings protests over the weekend.

GREG GUTFELD, FOX NEWS: Well, the reason why I interrupted Jessica, because I keep hearing the number 7 million, and nobody ever supplies the backup sentence that says, from X, because there is no X. There is no official accounting. When you go and you look for it, they say they get these numbers and they estimate it from the organizers. This, I mean, imagine, this is like believing Jesse when you ask him how many girlfriends he had in college. Divide by four, okay? So maybe- 7 million. Yes, yes, yes. I will give credit where credit’s due. It was largely nonviolent and non-confrontational. There were idiots that said terrible things. If you went and you asked them, they would say, I hope Charlie Kirk dies. That was happening a lot. And you can call them old. They called Trump rallies old. Speaking of Charlie Kirk, he was the one who single-handedly destroyed that narrative with Turning Point. But again, I’ve said this before, this is an imaginary solution to an imaginary problem. If you look at their list of grievances, their concepts, they cannot be measured. This is why Republicans are so popular now. Crime, drugs, immigration are real things that generate statistics you can measure. I don’t think you can measure, I know CNN will come up with it, measure a stat for authoritarianism. It’s gone up 137% since 2023, but right now you can’t. If you could measure authoritarianism, as Jesse points out, shutting down schools, parks, and speech would make Joe Biden the king of kings, but you’re not going to measure that. So why do they believe in it? And you hit on this. Democrats are not used to seeing action. When Trump would say it doesn’t always have to be this way, they didn’t know what that meant. It’s like, wait a second, you mean you can deport illegals? You can lock up recidivist criminals? Why didn’t we think of that? Action, what is action? We have a conversation, that’s our action. Let’s have a conversation, let’s figure out a committee, but they never did a damn thing. And now you’re seeing Democrats going, especially in San Francisco, that city’s on the mend, it’s because they’re actually doing stuff. They’re arresting recidivists, they’re hiring more cops. So I think it’s like, when Trump said, I work my ass off, that’s exactly what it is. And they are not used to seeing it, they’re in a shock. Last, I think about the interviews that we were seeing of black people in D.C. and Memphis and Chicago talking about the crime crackdown. They weren’t talking about monarchy, they were talking about safety in their streets. That was important to them. You compare that to the interviews of the people on Saturday, largely white, older, soft academic bodies who can afford to march for conceptual fears that don’t exist. Not real fears like mugging or carjacking or looting of their small businesses. They, however, God, they’re so lucky. Imagine how lucky you are on a Saturday that this is your problem. I bet if you walked out there to that group and you said, have any of you ever been mugged? Has any of your businesses been looted? Have you ever been carjacked? Or do you know somebody that has been a victim of that? They wouldn’t raise their hand. How lucky are they that they get to spend their afternoon not worrying about the things that everybody who lives in a city does? I think that’s the story. Generally, imaginary concerns are harmless until they become harmful. When they become the narrative, suddenly you will see Charlie Kirk, again, get shot and killed. Why? Because an amplified, phony narrative made him Hitler. Why was Trump shot at? Same reason. So this is harmless for now.

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