President Donald Trump threatened military deployments to Democratic-led cities after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore invited him to tour Baltimore. Trump said he might send troops to Baltimore and suggested considering Chicago and New York, citing forces used in Washington. He criticized Moore's crime record and used a pejorative nickname for California Gov. Gavin Newsom while referencing a Los Angeles deployment. Moore said he invited Trump to challenge Trump's misunderstanding of Baltimore's improving crime rates. City data show Baltimore homicides fell to 200 last year, down 24% from the prior year and 42% since 2021, with overall violent crime down nearly 8% and property crime down 20%.
President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland's governor to join him in a tour of Baltimore by saying he might instead send in the troops.' Last week, Trump said he was considering Chicago and New York for troop deployments similar to what he has unleashed on the nation's capital, where thousands of National Guard and federal law enforcement officers are patrolling the streets.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said Moore asked in a rather nasty and provocative tone, and then raised the specter of repeating the National Guard deployment he made in Los Angeles over the objections of California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. Wes Moore's record on Crime is a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other Blue States' are doing, Trump wrote, as he cited a pejorative nickname he uses frequently for the California governor.
Moore said he invited Trump to Maryland because he seems to enjoy living in this blissful ignorance about improving crime rates in Baltimore. After a spike during the pandemic that matched nationwide trends, Baltimore's violent crime rate has fallen. The 200 homicides reported last year were down 24% from the prior year and 42% since 2021, according to city data. Between 2023 and 2024, overall violent crime was down nearly 8% and property crimes down 20%.
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