WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland's governor to join him in a tour of Baltimore by saying he might instead “send in the ‘troops.’”

His latest pledge to ramp up the military's presence in left-leaning cities came as at least some National Guard units in the nation's capital began carrying weapons over the weekend, making good on a directive issued Friday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth . An Associated Press photographer on Sunday saw members of the South Carolina National Guard outside Union Station with holstered handguns.

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