Mayors of Democratic cities respond to Trump's threats they could be next after D.C.

Rachel Treisman

August 14, 2025 / 7:37 am

When President Trump announced his plans to mobilize Washington, D.C.'s National Guard and take control of its local police force, he suggested that other liberal-leaning cities could be next.

"You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is," Trump said Monday . "We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don't even mention that anymore, they're so far gone. … We're not going to lose our cities over this, and this will go further."

The mayors of those cities — all of whom are Black and Democrats — have pushed back against Trump in recent days, pointing

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