President Donald Trump signaled plans to expand domestic troop deployments to other Democrat-led cities, beginning with Chicago. The Department of Defence confirmed that National Guard troops patrolling Washington, DC, will carry service-issued weapons, a decision attributed to defence secretary Pete Hegseth. Trump mobilized the National Guard on August 11 citing crime concerns despite Metropolitan Police data showing violent crime at a 30-year low and a 35 percent drop since 2023. He has federalized the local police force for up to 30 days and renewed attacks on Washington leadership, threatening to remove Mayor Muriel Bowser from office.
President Donald Trump has hinted he plans to expand his domestic troop deployment to other Democrat-led cities in the United States, starting with the midwestern metropolis of Chicago, Illinois. Trump's warning arrived shortly after the Department of Defence confirmed to US media that the National Guard troops currently patrolling Washington, DC, will now be carrying weapons. In a statement on Friday, the Pentagon said the decision came directly from Trump's defence secretary, Pete Hegseth.
It was a crime-infested rat hole, and they do have a lot of rats, Trump said of Washington, DC, during a meeting with reporters and FIFA football federation president Gianni Infantino at the White House. He specifically called out Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, warning she could lose her democratically elected post. I'm tired of listening to these people say how safe it was before we got here, Trump said. It was unsafe. It was horrible. And Mayor Bowser had better get her
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