Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has weighed in on Donald Trump’s fixation with deploying the National Guard across the country—and he doesn’t have a sunny outlook.

Rove, who was dubbed “The Architect” by George W. Bush, appeared on the Journal Editorial Report Saturday. The Wall Street Journal columnist and Fox contributor said that the president was playing with fire with his current strategy.

Alongside forecasting tanking popularity for Trump, the GOP multi-hyphenate also admitted that he was struggling to see evidence that certain cities were as “war-torn” as Trump describes.

Opening with a clip of Trump enthusing how people in Memphis “are so happy” about the presence of the National Guard, Fox News host Paul Gigot countered that new polling does not suggest such

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