“Fueled By Billionaires”: No Kings Prepares Color-Revolution-Style Mobilization Against Trump

by Tyler Durden

Friday, Oct 17, 2025 – 04:00 PM

The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, is reportedly preparing to activate a coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization across the U.S. this weekend – a replay of failed agitation attempts seen earlier this year targeting President Trump and Elon Musk. The operation, marketed under the “No Kings” banner and portrayed publicly as a grassroots movement, in reality functions as a professionalized protest-industrial complex. Its composition includes a blend of paid activists, white boomers suffering from Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome, and a smaller contingent of organic, unhinged leftists who recite MSNBC talking points by heart. 

A grown man with severe Trump Detanglement Syndrome beats a Trump doll at the Beverly Hills, California ‘No Kings’ protest.
pic.twitter.com/IeVjQ9O9dh— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) June 15, 2025

Little do these white boomers know, the “No Kings” movement, supposedly against “kings and billionaires”, is, in reality, funded by leftist billionaire kings themselves. In truth, No Kings is bankrolled by far-left foundations backed by the same billionaire class that has been waging a political war against President Trump since his first term. Essentially, one faction of billionaires hates another, so their woke non-profit soldiers create a front group, brand it “No Kings,” and bankroll an army of paid protesters and unhinged left-wing activists. This is America in 2025: the permanent protest-industrial complex of hate and chaos, financed by the left.

Drilling down into the dark-money network funding No Kings are investigative researchers Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute. Their new bombshell report exposes how the protest-industrial complex, dubbed “Riot, Inc.,” is, in their words, “FUELED BY BILLIONAIRES.”

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: This Saturday, Oct 18 — “No Kings 2.0” goes GLOBAL. Organizers claim to stand against “kings and billionaires.” But new @peterschweizer team research into ‘Riot, Inc.’ shows the unrest is FUELED BY BILLIONAIRES. 🔥 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/13HdjFPVKe— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

“We traced $294,487,641 to the official No Kings 2.0 partners & organizers…all funneled through the same “Riot Inc.” dark-money networks: Arabella network $79.7M+ Soros network $72.1M+ Ford network $51.7M+, Tides $45.5M+, Rockefeller $28.6M+, and Buffett $16.6M+,” Bruner wrote on X. 

📊We traced $294,487,641 to the official No Kings 2.0 partners & organizers…all funneled through the same “Riot Inc.” dark-money networks:
💰 Arabella network $79.7M+
💰 Soros network $72.1M+
💰 Ford network $51.7M+
💰Tides $45.5M+
💰 Rockefeller $28.6M+
💰 Buffett $16.6M+ pic.twitter.com/b6zFla79UP— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

George Soros

💸 Billionaire #1: GEORGE SOROS

Soros’s Open Society network directly contributed $72 million+ to official No Kings 2.0 organizers & partners. Soros is a primary architect of the “Riot Inc.” political protest model and a master of “color revolutions.” pic.twitter.com/nOLLmeHNZm— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg

💸 Billionaire #2: MARK ZUCKERBERG

Zuck orgs funneled $50 million+ into the Riot Inc. dark-money network through Arabella- and Tides-linked foundations. His money helps underwrite the same protest infrastructure now powering “No Kings 2.0.” pic.twitter.com/iPNT6irpHo— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

Hansjorg Wyss

💸 Billionaire #3: HANSJÖRG WYSS
The Swiss-born mega-donor is the largest foreign financier of the U.S. protest complex. GAI traced $245 million+ from Wyss to the Arabella network — the operational hub behind “No Kings 2.0.” pic.twitter.com/OPUemwyjZo— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

Bill Gates 

💸 Billionaire #4: BILL GATES
Gates Foundation pumped $100 million+ into the same Arabella–Tides–Ford infrastructure funding this weekend’s global protests. pic.twitter.com/36F8OwUehQ— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

Marc Benioff 

💸 Billionaire #5: MARC BENIOFF

Salesforce billionaire funds added $20 million+ to the mix. Together: $294.4 million from billionaire-backed networks fueling the “No Billionaires” protests. 🔥💰 pic.twitter.com/pDA2BzR66f— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

Bruner concluded, “OBVIOUSLY “No Kings 2.0” isn’t grassroots. This level of coordination requires serious funds. 👇🏻 The protestors should just own it! Instead they hold up anti-billionaire signs funded by…billionaires. Are they being dishonest or ignorant?” 

🚨🪧OBVIOUSLY “No Kings 2.0” isn’t grassroots. This level of coordination requires serious funds. 👇🏻 The protestors should just own it! Instead they hold up anti-billionaire signs funded by…billionaires. Are they being dishonest or ignorant? 🥀 pic.twitter.com/z5q1KWyHeH— Seamus Bruner (@seamusbruner) October 16, 2025

Recall that Bruner and Schweizer penned a note (read here) in mid-June that revealed more than $100 million was plowed into No Kings and partners via the Arabella dark money network. 

Dark-Money Network Funneled Millions Into ‘No Kings’ Nationwide Color Revolution Operation https://t.co/VDDFccxAN5— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 13, 2025

By late summer, the Gates Foundation abruptly severed ties with the Arabella network due to political pressure regarding funding for color revolution-style operations on city streets. 

Last week, during the Antifa roundtable at the White House, Bruner briefed President Trump (read here): “We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc investors.” In fact, tackling Antifa is not the proper strategy, as Bruner told Trump, start with dark-money NGOs. 

White House releases names funding Antifa, protests and violence in America

We paid for our own protests with over $100 million laundered by Democrats

“We found a network of NGOs”

– George Soros, the Open Society Network
– Arabella Funding Network
– The Tides FIShing Network
-… pic.twitter.com/93FZsh9qnv— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 8, 2025

Back to No Kings.

Your “No Kings” Rally is literally sponsored by the Communist Party https://t.co/3LqLkGvjVZ pic.twitter.com/iNllVBRaQ8— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) October 16, 2025

Via Oversight Project.

We’ve been studying “No Kings” for months and have written a detailed report based on the social media activity of its organizers – the group 50501.

The linked thread covers key findings 👇

The report is here: https://t.co/CX9lkNZuPBhttps://t.co/SwDHJHEaIT pic.twitter.com/JBriY2cc8g— Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) October 9, 2025

Perhaps No Kings can give ‘Free Palestine’ protesters a job…

Right.