If there was a doubt that the crisis unfolded in it was dismantled with his inflammatory speech last night at the Fort Brag military base.
Making use of his status as a senior leader of the Armed Forces, President Trump attempted to further involve the army on his political agenda while launching insults against political opponents and elected state nobles.
Addressing thousands of soldiers inside the US Special Forces, Trump unleashed his arguments, arguing that America is accepting “invasion” of foreign, criminals from around the world who act with his opponents, even with the blessings. Trump did not fail to tell the soldiers that in the riots of Los Angeles, some protesters blend foreign flag (Mexican), which caused the patriotic feeling of the Americans.
Trump: “Paid provocateurs the protesters”
President Trump warned that he would tackle those who resist law and class, described the demonstrators as “paid provocateurs”, his predecessor Joe Biden as a “subordinate” who signed what they put in front of him, the Governor of California and the Governor. Soldiers and members of their families strongly condemned the media representatives when Trump showed journalists and television workshops saying “you see what I’m pulling with them”.
It was expected that the massive arrests of irregular migrants that began last Friday by the Federal Ice of the Ice of the Los Angeles Ministry of Security (ICE) would trigger reactions as one -third of the city’s residents are immigrants, most of them. It is estimated that one in five inhabitants of the county is illegally in the US.
Escalation of tension in Los Angeles
The California National Guard stands in formation guarding the federal building in the center of Los Angeles on Tuesday 10 June 2025 (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Climbing the tension with the mobilization of 4,000 nationalists and a Marine Corps Battalion, Trump accused the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bas, and the Governor Newsom, who come from the Democratic Party, saying that he is only able to protect them. In California the proportion of democrats to Republican voters is 3: 1.
The courts will judge the constitutionality of Trump actions
California motorway officers clash with protesters on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
The constitutionality of the presidential actions will be judged in the courts following the appeals of local authorities, but Donald Trump holds the trump of the conservative majority in the Supreme Court (with judges’ appointments). The message is clear to the mayors and other local leaders of hundreds of cities and areas who have also been declared “shelters” of irregular migrants against federal migration services. The rulers and mayors should abolish any measures that protects people without “papers”, even if it concerns basic human rights.
The practice of cities – shelters is not new, dating back to the 1980s, has various forms of tolerance and protection, but has spread widely in the last 20 years. Cities of shelters have also been declared New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Denver and more.
Los Angeles is just the beginning
A demonstrator is captured by California Traffic near the federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday 10 June 2025 (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
For Trump and his staff, Los Angeles is just the beginning to fulfill the pre -election promise for the “biggest expulsion of immigrants in history”. They bet that in this political climate the Democratic Party will not be able to reconstruct the intermediate elections for Congress next year, that a possible reinforcement of the left wing of the Democrats will divide the party and scare voters. However, it is difficult to assess the long -term impact of Trump authoritarianism, both on the level of political life and on the level of everyday life.
Los Angeles banned traffic was imposed by the Mayor
A demonstrator is arrested by police in downtown Los Angeles, near the federal building, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
At dawn of Greece, the mayor of Los Angeles finally announced the imposition of a city downtown traffic. The mayor of BAS was not able to calculate the cost of vandalism, nor approximately, and assured that the measure was not intended to silence the citizens.
In the coming days it will be judged what course the divided America will take.
