Kiyoko Merolli could have chosen to spend her seventh birthday as most kids do, at home with friends and family. But instead of a party, she asked for a protest.

On Saturday, the first-grader from Takoma Park, Maryland, took her celebration to the White House, where dozens of activists of all ages gathered to speak out against President Donald Trump s administration with messages of positivity.

The young demonstrators, some no more than four feet tall, held up picket signs reading kid power, love trumps hate, and Black lives matter.

Even the pink-frosted birthday cupcakes featured phrases like protect kids, not guns and families belong together, a clear rebuke of Trumps policy of separating migrant children from their parents.