California Gov. Gavin Newsom fired off Thursday at President Donald Trump for his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. — and suggested the president look instead to cities represented by leaders of his own party.

“I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, in Speaker [Mike] Johnson’s district that has six-plus times the per-capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco,” Newsom said, speaking with MSNBC contributor and YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen.

“What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport?" Newsom added. "Why aren’t you protecting the folks there? Eight of the top 10 murder states in this country are red states. What bulls—, and everyone knows it, everybody knows it.”

Shreveport is among the most dangerous cities in the United States, ranking 18th on 24/7 Wall Street’s “America’s 25 Murder Capitals” list for its murder rate of 21.4 per 100,000 residents and a violent crime rate of 949 per 100,000. Of the states with the highest murder rates, four of the top five are Republican-controlled: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Missouri, respectively.

Having launched on Monday, Trump’s federal takeover in the nation’s capital has seen more than 1,600 federal officers deployed to the city, making a total of 111 arrests as of Thursday, arrest numbers that critics promptly ridiculed considering the millions of dollars in spending the operation is likely to cost taxpayers.

Despite Trump proudly lauding the operation as a “historic action to rescue (the) nation’s capitol from crime,” Newsom argued it was more akin to an act of desperation.

“It’s acts of authoritarianism, it’s acts of power [from] a person that is trying to use his formal authority; it’s depleting, it’s increasingly weak, and it’s increasingly desperate,” Newsom said. “That’s why it’s important for us at this moment to meet him head on; not just rhetorically, but through substantive counter actions, and that’s what we’re doing in California.”

Watch the video below or use this link.