A woman wearing handcuffs takes part in the Women's March to protest Donald Trump's inauguration as the 45th president of the United States close to the White House in Washington, January 21, 2017. [Photo/Agencies]

NEW YORK - Over one million people Saturday took to the streets and staged rallies across the United States to protest against President Donald Trump's first full day as the 45th US President.

In New York City, at least 200,000 crowd gathered near Trump Tower in Manhattan for the Women's March on New York City.

Carrying signs that said "Dear Trump Don't be the person we think" and "I wish your inauguration was fake news!." More and more people lined the streets on the 42nd Street and 58 Street, waiting for taking part in the Women's March on NYC. Police have already blacked the roads.

At the New York march, Bridget Mills, 41, told Xinhua "I hope it sends a message (to Trump) that we're listening, we are paying attention to if he cares morally about people's civil rights and America's standing in the world."

Gengil, in her 20s, lives in Halem, black, marching with five of her sisters, said "our diverse America is inclusive, resilient, brave, and it is for white, black, latino, Asian etc., this is the message we want to send to President Trump."

Cynthia Stern, middle aged woman, said "I'm not accepting the things I cannot change, I'm changing the things I cannot accept. Protest has changed many many things (in US history), including women's rights to vote by the civil rights movement in the 60s."

Demonstrators had planned to take their rally cries to the doors of Trump Tower, but police stopped them south of the building on East 55th Street.

Organizers said the Women's March on NYC was for anyone unable to participate in the Women's March on Washington.

In Washington, D.C., about half a million people showed up for Women's March in the country's capital to challenge the new U.S. president. "We march today for the moral core of this nation, against which our new president is waging a war," actress America Ferrera told the Washington crowd.

"Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America.

Marchers took to the streets near the National Mall in Washington, D.C., calling for women's rights and voicing their opposition to the newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump.