Trump threatens to send the National Guard to Baltimore to “clean” the crime

US President Donald Trump threatened to deploy forces in Baltimore, and escalated from a clash with the governor of Maryland Wes Moore after he invited him to join him to “walk safety” in the city.

Trump wrote on social media: “If Wes Moore needs help, as Gavin did in Los Angeles, he will be sent in the” forces “, which are being done in the nearby capital, and quickly clean the crime,” Trump wrote on social media.

The comments are the latest flash point in the president’s efforts to deploy the National Guard forces to democracy -led cities as part of what he calls a crime campaign.

The use of military personnel to enforce local law has extracted a violent reaction from Democrats. A conservative described it as a “abuse of power.”

Trump has already deployed about 2000 soldiers in Washington, DC, a democratic stronghold.

On Sunday, the guard began carrying weapons in Washington, the army said. Previously, their weapons were available if necessary, but they were kept in weapons.

A statement from the joint business squad said it would have only been used as a last resort.

It is expected that up to 1700 soldiers in 19 states in the coming weeks, according to the American media report.

The ruler Moore, the repeated critic of the president’s strategy, said that Trump’s comments on crime combating “are based on that, so deaf and very ignorant.”

“This is because they did not walk our streets,” Moore said. “They were not in our societies, and they are more happy to continue making these repeated tracks for us.”

It seems that the social comments of the Trump formula are a direct response to Moore invitation message to Trump Which the president described as “bad” and “provocative”.

“As a president, I prefer to clean this crime disaster before I go there for” walking, “Trump wrote.

The White House says hundreds of arrests have been made since the operation began in Washington, DC.

Speaking at the White Casablanca office on Friday, Trump said the mission brought “full safety” to Washington.

“The capital was hell,” he said. “But it is now safe.”

According to the crime figures published by the capital police in Washington, DC (MPDC), violent crimes decreased after its peak in 2023 and in 2024 its lowest level in 30 years.

They are continuing to decline, according to the initial data of 2025.

Violent crime generally decreased by 26 % this year compared to the same point in 2024, and the theft decreased by 28 %, according to MPDC.

Trump has suggested that he would deploy forces in New York and Chicago as well.

This escalation led to a condemnation of the leaders of Democrats in the states and other cities, including the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, who said that Trump’s threats to deploy forces in Chicago are abuse of power.

The leader of the minority in the Democratic Parliament of Jeffrez, confirming that Trump lacked the legal authority to send forces to cities such as Baltimore and Chicago.

He said that the president was using low crime levels – such as “the lowest Baltimore murder in more than 50 years” – to manufacture a crisis.

A poll conducted by the Washington Post and the SAR School, which was issued earlier this week, found that publishing is not very popular among the city’s residents, where approximately 80 % said that they oppose both the spread of federal officials and the National Guard, in addition to the acquisition of the city police administration.