In the United States, states normally have control over the national guard. The National Guard is a military reserve unit and part of the US armed forces. Each state has its own national guard, which can be used in forest fires, hurricanes, floods or unrest inside. It is then under the command of the respective governor. If there is a war or national emergencies, the US President can take command. In total, the United States has more than 325,000 national guards.
One of the two California US senators, Adam Schiff, called the use of the National Guard against the will of the governor “unprecedented”. So that chaos should be donated and an escalation is brought about. He called for an end to violence – there was nothing “what President Trump would like more than violent clashes with demonstrators” in order to justify the use of the military or a form of war law, warned ship on X.
Immediately before the decision of the White House, Trump had already let go of a threat: If Governor Newsom and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, did not make her jobs properly, the government would intervene and solve the problem with “unrest and looting”. Instead of using the governor’s correct last name, Trump described him in his post on the Truth Social platform as “Newscum” – a pun with the English term “scum”, which means “scum” in German.
The disparagement of the democratic governor also points to the political dimension of the case: Newsom is not only one of the most prominent Democrats, he is also considered a possible prospect of the presidential candidacy of his party in the election 2028. And: Newsom rules an enormously economical state with almost 40 million inhabitants-this is more than a tenth of the US population.
Only on Friday had newsom challenged on the X Trump platform. According to reports that the government wanted to delete billions of funding for projects in democratic California, he wrote that Californians paid the Federal Government’s invoices. The citizens paid a good $ 80 billion more taxes on Washington than the country back. “Maybe it’s time to stop, @Raldonaldtrump” he wrote to Trump.
