Trump Calls the Second-Largest City in Country He Governs a ‘Trash Heap’

President Donald Trump held a political rally at Fort Bragg on Tuesday, where he re-upped his verbal attacks on Los Angeles after deploying National Guardsmen and Marines.

The area has seen several protests since Friday in response to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents looking to arrest undocumented immigrants.

Trump has federalized 4,000 National Guardsmen and deployed  700 Marines to the Los Angeles area, which has prompted state officials to sue the administration in federal court.

“Donald Trump is behaving like a tyrant, not a President,” Newsom said. “We ask the court to immediately block these unlawful actions.”

During his speech at Fort Bragg, Trump slammed Newsom while once again calling him “Newscum.” For good measure, the president dumped on Los Angeles:

Within the span of a few decades, Los Angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safest, and most beautiful cities on Earth to being a trash heap with entire neighborhoods under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks. It’s horrible, what’s happened so quickly. As the entire world can now see, uncontrolled migration leads to chaos, dysfunction, and disorder.

He then declared, “Very simply, we will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean, and safe again. It’s happening very quickly.”

Trump officials have echoed their boss’s rhetoric. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News that Los Angeles is “a city of criminals.”

The president’s federalization of a state National Guard over the objections of its governor has not happened since Lyndon Johnson did so to protect Civil Rights marchers in Alabama in 1965. In that case, Johnson invoked the Insurrection Act. The statute Trump used to federalize the Guard, meanwhile, had only been invoked once before, when Richard Nixon used Guardsmen to deliver mail during a postal workers’ strike in 1970.

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