(Washington) US President Donald Trump threatened Baltimore on Sunday, the eastern city of the United States, and his Maryland state led by a Democrat, to dispatch “troops” of the National Guard, as he did in Los Angeles and Washington.
The American president reacted to messages on X of the Governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, who offered him “a walk” in the streets of Baltimore, “even if that implies even more lies about the progress we make in terms of public security in Maryland”.
“Eh, Donald, we can provide you with a golf car if it makes things easier. Keep me posted! “Ironized the elected democrat of this state which adjoins Washington and whose port capital Baltimore, theater of the TV series” Listening “, was long considered a dangerous city.
Pique to the heart, Donald Trump retorted to his Truth Social account with “rather nasty and provocative tone” of Governor Moore.
“I imagine he is talking about Baltimore out of control and plagued by crime?” (…) If Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin (Newsom) in Los Angeles, I will send the “troops” there, as we are doing nearby, in Washington, in order to get rid of crime, ”hammered the conservative president.
“Unconstitutional”
Questioned by CNN and CBS televisions, Mr. Moore replied that he “would not allow
“It is unconstitutional,” recalled the governor, who, like his 49 colleagues in the American states, has the authority on this army reserve body.
According to a source of Washington Poston the night of Saturday to Sunday, the Department La Défense has been planning the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, the third city of the country, in order to combat crime and illegal immigration for weeks.
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Chicago recorded 573 homicides in 2024, according to city police, a drop of 8 % compared to 2023.
Asked, the Pentagon refused to “speculate”.
Donald Trump, who applies his anti-crime and immigration electoral program and against the immigration of undocumented migrants, expressed Friday in the oval office of his desire to hurry to Chicago and New York, mega-cities led by Democrats, Federal police, including the National Guard.
Washington has already been welcoming more than 1900 reservists from this army body since August 12, which should soon be armed, as well as federal agency police such as the FBI, ICE immigration police or the DEA antidrogue.
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Members of the National Guard are walking on the National Mall on August 23, 2025 in Washington.
“We are going to make our cities very, very safe,” promised the president.
His government had sent in Los Angeles 4000 national guards in California and 700 navies in June, despite the opposition of Governor Newsom, one of the first opponents of the Republican billionaire.
His Democratic counterpart of Illinois, JB Pritzker, where Chicago is, said on Saturday on X that his state “has long cooperated with the federal police, but that we will not let a dictator impose his will”.
