Donald Trump threatened to deploy Nationwide Guard troops Sunday (August 24, 2025) to yet one more Democratic stronghold, the Maryland metropolis of Baltimore, because the U.S. President seeks to increase his crackdown on crime and immigration.
The Republicans’ newest on-line rant about an “uncontrolled, crime-ridden” metropolis comes as Democratic state leaders — together with Maryland Governor Wes Moore — line as much as berate Mr. Trump on a high-profile political stage.
Mr. Trump this month deployed the Nationwide Guard to the streets of Washington, in a broadly criticised present of pressure, the President mentioned quantities to a federal takeover of U.S. capital policing.
U.S. media on Sunday (August 23, 2025) reported the Guard will start carrying firearms in Washington, citing defence officers.
In June Mr. Trump controversially ordered practically 5,000 troops to Los Angeles — ostensibly to quell protests in opposition to immigration enforcement raids — triggering ferocious opposition from California Governor Gavin Newsom, broadly seen as a possible 2028 presidential hopeful.
And U.S. media is reporting that the Trump administration can be planning an unprecedented deployment of hundreds of Nationwide Guard personnel to Chicago, the nation’s third-largest metropolis, prompting vocal pushback from Democrats there.
As for Baltimore, “if Wes Moore wants assist, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I’ll ship within the ‘troops,’ which is being executed in close by DC, and shortly clear up the Crime,” Mr. Trump posted on his Reality Social platform, utilizing a derogatory nickname.
Mr. Trump’s feud with Mr. Moore appeared to escalate dramatically this week, with the governor assailing Mr. Trump’s provocative suggestion of deploying troops in Maryland and Mr. Trump calling Mr. Moore “nasty” and threatening to revoke federal funds to assist repair a collapsed bridge.
On Sunday (August 24, 2025), Mr. Moore advised CNN he had invited Mr. Trump to stroll the streets of Baltimore with him so the Governor might counter “this blissful ignorance, these tropes and these 1980 scare techniques” utilized by the president.
“Hey Donald, we are able to get you a golf cart if that makes issues simpler,” Mr. Moore needled the 79-year-old Mr. Trump on X.
Mr. Trump, for his par,t mentioned he would “a lot desire that he clear up this Crime catastrophe earlier than I am going there for a ‘stroll,’” as he cited Mr. Moore’s “very unhealthy” file on crime.
Mr. Moore mentioned Maryland’s murder charge has dropped greater than 20% since he grew to become Governor, “and the final time the murder charge was this low in Baltimore Metropolis, I used to be not born but.”
Mr. Moore, 46, is a US Military veteran, best-selling writer, and the third African-American individual elected governor of a US state.
Chicago ‘subsequent’
The Pentagon in the meantime refused to substantiate reviews that Chicago would quickly obtain troops.
Mr. Trump had mentioned Friday (August 22, 2025) that Chicago and New York — main Democratic-led cities — would obtain Nationwide Guard deployments just like Washington.
“We’re going to make our cities very, very protected,” Mr. Trump advised reporters on the White Home. “I believe Chicago will likely be our subsequent after which we’ll assist with New York.”
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, each Democrats, strongly rejected the concept.
“Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans try to color their occasion as considered one of ‘regulation and order,’” Mr. Pritzker posted on X. “That couldn’t be farther from the reality.”
Chicago recorded 573 homicides in 2024, based on metropolis police, eight p.c decrease than the yr earlier than.
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