Trump Admin Still Using National Guard to Do ‘Performance Art,’ Punish Dems in LA
About half of the 4,000 troops in the National Guard that President Trump deployed last month in Los Angeles to repress the demonstrators demonstrating against ice raids in the sanctuary city led by the Democrats still remain in the city, said the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, in an interview with ABC which was broadcast on Sunday. The Pentagon plans to remove 700 additional active navies this week, according to the New York Times.
But the remaining military troops still occupy the city, despite the fact that protests against masked ice raids and street kidnappings have been mainly extinguished in recent weeks. Bass, like California Governor Gavin Newsom, said they had never been necessary first.
While the mayor of Los Angeles did not go as far as we describe the occupation in Los Angeles as a system of reprisals of Trump – acting on his regret for not having deployed the national army to repress the demonstrators following the murder of George Floyd during his first mandate, and to seize the opportunity to punish the national democratic presence which has implemented policies.
“This did not justify the Marines who enter our city without any real mission but just a demonstration of force. Los Angeles is 500 square miles. The disturbances took place in perhaps two square miles,” said Bass. “I hope the army leaves because they were never necessary here to start.
Cruelty in exaggerated and excessive art is a key pillar of Trump’s second term. Just like the performance at the memet which takes place in Florida with the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” – which turns out to be killing two co -owner birds with a single stone, threatening the ecosystem of the Everglades while helping Trump to show how much he has made elected democratic aggressiveness). Aware of the political risks of carrying out raids in rural communities where farmers are counting on migrant workers to plant and harvest crops, the Trump’s internal security department has largely fixed cities and sanctuary states, or university campuses which he does not like, as targets of ice raids in recent months.
It is a question of taking revenge on the areas where states and local officials do not dare to cooperate fully with the mass expulsion program of Trump.
And New York is the next
It seems that the Trump administration is only looking for reasons to repress New York, which has held the status of sanctuary for a while. The New York Municipal Council has repeatedly fought the attempts by Mayor Eric Adams to allow the DHS to open an ice office in Rikers Island, including the continuation of Adams earlier this spring to prevent it from doing so. Last month, a judge of the Supreme Court of the State reassured himself with the Municipal Council, preventing Adams indefinitely from reopening an ice office in the notorious prison.
The border of the Trump administration, Tsar Tom Homan, is in warning today that in reprisal, the Trump administration intends to “flood” the city with ice agents carrying out raids. According to the president of the Manhattan district and a democratic candidate for the controller Mark Levine:
To be clear: ice can and details people on rikers, they just need a judicial mandate.
Want Homan talks about sending masked agents and unidentified in our streets to tear families and make a raid.
It is not about security. It’s about instilling fear. https://t.co/un7hfeckw3
– Mark D. Levine (@marklevinenyc) July 21, 2025
The remuneration against journalists continues
The White House blocked a journalist from the Wall Street Journal to travel with the press pool that heads for Scotland for a trip with Trump to visit its golf courses this weekend. This occurs when the Trump administration continues the WSJ for defamation after having published a report last week by saying that Trump attracted Jeffrey Epstein a raw birthday card and wrote a poem on “Secrets” in 2003. The journalist who was to travel with the press basin was not the author of the article last week. By politico:
Tarini gone, a White House journalist for the Wall Street Journal, was to serve as a swimming pool printed for the last two days of Trump’s four -day trip to his golf courses in Turnberry and Aberdeen, Scotland.
But the White House, which earlier this year has taken control of the pool rotations From the Association of White House correspondents, withdrawn it from the manifesto of the trip, said Leavitt.
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