By JONATHAN J. COOPER and LEAH ASKARINAM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to broaden his army deployments to extra Democratic-led cities, responding to a proposal by Maryland’s governor to affix him in a tour of Baltimore by saying he may as an alternative “ship within the ‘troops.’”
Final week, Trump mentioned he was contemplating Chicago and New York for troop deployments just like what he has unleashed on the nation’s capital, the place hundreds of Nationwide Guard and federal regulation enforcement officers are patrolling the streets.
Trump made the menace to Baltimore in a spat with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat who has criticized Trump’s unprecedented flex of federal energy aimed toward combatting crime and homelessness in Washington. Moore final week invited Trump to go to his state to debate public security and stroll the streets.
In a Fact Social publish on Sunday, Trump mentioned Moore requested “in a quite nasty and provocative tone,” after which raised the specter of repeating the Nationwide Guard deployment he made in Los Angeles over the objections of California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.
“Wes Moore’s document on Crime is a really dangerous one, until he fudges his figures on crime like lots of the different ‘Blue States’ are doing,” Trump wrote, as he cited a pejorative nickname he makes use of ceaselessly for the California governor. “But when Wes Moore wants assist, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I’ll ship within the ‘troops,’ which is being accomplished in close by DC, and shortly clear up the Crime.”
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Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) brokers patrol the Nationwide Mall, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana)
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Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) brokers patrol the Nationwide Mall, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana)
Moore mentioned he invited Trump to Maryland “as a result of he appears to take pleasure in residing on this blissful ignorance” about enhancing crime charges in Baltimore.
“The president is spending all of his time speaking about me,” Moore mentioned on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “I’m spending my time speaking concerning the folks I serve.”
After surging Nationwide Guard troops and federal regulation enforcement officers into Washington this month, Trump has mentioned Chicago and New York are almost certainly his subsequent targets, eliciting sturdy pushback from Democratic leaders in each states. The Washington Put up reported Saturday that the Pentagon has spent weeks getting ready for an operation in Chicago that would come with Nationwide Guard troops and probably lively responsibility forces.
Requested concerning the Put up report, the White Home pointed to Trump’s earlier feedback discussing his want to broaden his use of army forces to focus on native crime.
“I believe Chicago will probably be our subsequent,” Trump informed reporters on the White Home on Friday, including, “After which we’ll assist with New York.”
Trump has repeatedly described a number of the nation’s largest cities — run by Democrats, with Black mayors and majority-minority populations — as harmful and filthy. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is Black, as is Moore. The District of Columbia and New York even have Black mayors.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, talking throughout a non secular occasion Sunday at Howard College in Washington, mentioned the Guard’s presence within the nation’s capital was not about crime: “That is about profiling us.”
“That is laced with bigotry and racism,” he later elaborated to reporters. “Not one white mayor has been designated. And I believe it is a civil rights situation, a race situation, and a difficulty of D.C. statehood.”
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, mentioned there’s no emergency warranting the deployment of Nationwide Guard troops in Chicago.
“Donald Trump is making an attempt to fabricate a disaster, politicize People who serve in uniform, and proceed abusing his energy to distract from the ache he’s inflicting households,” Pritzker wrote on X. “We’ll proceed to observe the regulation, arise for the sovereignty of our state, and defend Illinoisans.”
Cooper reported from Phoenix.
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