Calif. Governor Gavin Newsom , who recently trolled Donald Trump with a TikTok set to Taylor Swift’s “Actually Romantic,” will fight in court against the president’s deployment of his state’s National Guard to Oregon.
“After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now,” Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “We are taking this fight back to court. The public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.”
The news came a day after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deploying Oregon’s own National Guard troops to Portland — over the governor’s objections — in