Trump threatens to send the National Guard to Baltimore to “Clean” Crime

US President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash the troops in Baltimore, escalating a collision with Maryland Wes Moore’s governor after the democrat invited him to join Safety in the city.

“If Wes Moore needs help, as Gavin Newscum has done to LA, I will send the” troops “, which is being done in a nearby DC and will quickly clean the crime,” Trump wrote in social media.

The comments note the latest Flashpoint in the President’s efforts to unleash the National Guard troops in the cities led by Democrats as part of what he calls crime repression.

The use of military officials for internal law enforcement agencies derived a fierce reaction from Democrats. A governor described him as “abuse of power”.

Trump has already deployed about 2,000 soldiers in Washington, a democratic fortress.

On Sunday, the guard began carrying a weapon in Washington, the military said. Previously, their weapons were available, if necessary, but stored in the weapons part.

A statement from the joint working group said that they should only be used as a last resort.

1700 troops are expected to mobilize in 19 states in the coming weeks, US media reported.

Governor Moore, a frequent critic of the president’s strategy, said Trump’s comments about the fight against crime “go out so that a tone deaf and so ignorant.”

“This is because they have not traveled our streets,” Moore said. “They were not in our communities and are more than happy to continue to make these multiple tropes for us.”

Trump’s social comments on Sunday of the truth seemed a direct answer to Moore’s invitation letter to Trump which the president described as “nasty” and “provocative”.

“As a president, I would rather clean up this crime disaster before I go there for a” walk, “Trump wrote.

The White House says hundreds of arrests have been made since the start of the Washington operation.

As he spoke at the White House Oval Office on Friday, Trump said the mission had brought “total safety” to Washington.

“DC was a hell of a hole,” he said. “But now it’s safe.”

According to Crime reports published by the City Police of Washington (MPDC), violent crimes fell after peak in 2023 and in 2024 reached their lowest level in 30 years.

They continue to fall, according to the preliminary data for 2025.

This year, violent crimes decreased by 26% compared to the same point in 2024, and robbery was 28%, according to MPDC.

Trump suggested that he would deploy troops in both New York and Chicago.

This escalation has led to the condemnation of the leaders of the Democrats of other countries and cities, including the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, who said Trump’s threats to unleash troops in Chicago were abuse of power.

The leader of the Democratic House Hakem Jeffrries has also weighed, claiming that Trump lacks the legal body to send troops to cities such as Baltimore and Chicago.

He said the president uses reduced crime levels – as “the fewer Baltimore murders in over 50 years” – for crisis production.

A poll conducted by Washington Post and Schar School, launched earlier this week, found that the deployment was deeply unpopular among the city’s residents, with almost 80% saying that they were against the deployment of federal officers and the National Guard, as well as the absorption of the Metropolitan Police Department.