Trump to remove National Guard members from Chicago, LA, Portland

(The Center Square) – National Guard members deployed in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Ore., will head home after President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is removing them from the cities.

In the president’s social media post via his Truth Social account, the announcement’s tone appeared reluctant, crediting a drop in crime in the cities following the presence of the National Guard members.

Trump claims the cities “were gone” before the federal government stepped in to cull crime, while warning he may send the National Guard back in.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” the president wrote. “It’s hard to believe that these Democrat Mayors and Governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made???”

The removal comes on the heels of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, ruling that Trump can’t use the National ...