About one and a half hours later, when the march fully surrounded the White House, some of the protestors sat down for 100 seconds to symbolize the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
Then, they rose and resumed their march to the Washington Monument for music and art.
Ellen Connolly, a software company manager, was one of the marchers under stifling heat as the temperature rose to as high as 32 degrees Celsius.
"I have a seven-month-old granddaughter and I would like to see she has a decent place to live as she grows up," Connolly told Xinhua.
"He (Trump) doesn't really have climate polices as if climate change does not exist. He doesn't care about environment."
Gale Harvey, 78, a physicist who retired from the U.S. space agency NASA's Langley Research Center, echoed similar sentiments, accusing the Trump administration of promoting "a lot of lies" such as downplaying the certainty of climate change science.
"Much of his points he said is outright lies, if not outright lies, (they are) very bad, and destructive distortions of actual truths," Harvey said.
"I'm very, very concerned about the devastating decrease in funding for science agencies and even more concerned about the gag orders that seems to be quietly going out so that the scientists can not publicize their results."
Organizers said the march in the U.S. capital topped 200,000 people at its peak, far outpacing the National Park Service's permitted space for 100,000 people. Meanwhile, there are tens of thousands more taking part at over 370 sister marches across the country.
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