Donald Trump is smart. He picks the fights that he knows he can win. You fight with me, you fight with New York, that's going to be ugly. He'll probably win because he's the president, but he's going to know that he was in a fight.
President Donald Trump has mentioned both Oakland and San Francisco among potential target cities with crime problems where he would send troops, having already ordered the National Guard in recent months to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., while making formal threats to Chicago and Portland, Oregon. The president has not yet announced any official plans to send the guard to the Bay Area.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday expanded his controversial deployment of National Guard troops to cities where he claims "domestic terrorists" are operating and where crime is rampant. The latest city will be Portland, Oregon, known across the US for its progressive politics. All of the other cities to which Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Washington DC, Memphis and Los Angeles have Democratic mayors.