The American president has already sent the National Guard to Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis, while judges have suspended mobilization in Chicago and Portland
The President of the United States, , threatened to send troops to San Francisco in an interview broadcast this Sunday (19), as he seeks to mobilize the American Army in more cities controlled by Democrats. The president has already sent the National Guard to Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis, while judges have suspended mobilization in Chicago and Portland. “Now we are going to San Francisco,” Trump declared on Fox News. “The difference is, I think they want us in San Francisco. San Francisco was really one of the great cities in the world. And 15 years ago, everything went wrong,” he added.
Trump repeatedly exaggerates the magnitude of crime in American cities to justify National Guard deployments, which local Democratic leaders have largely opposed. At the end of last month, he suggested that American cities would be used as “training grounds” for military forces.
The first deployment in Los Angeles in June followed protests over widespread migrant raids that critics said appeared to target people mainly because of their skin color or the language they spoke. This mobilization was harshly criticized by the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, a likely presidential candidate in 2027.
San Francisco occupies a special place in the Republican worldview. The city, with documented problems of destitution and drug addiction, frequently appears in right-wing media as an example of what they consider to be the decline of urban centers in the United States under the control of the Democratic Party.
*With information from AFP
Published by Fernando Dias
