Is Trump’s troop buildup in U.S. cities a declaration of war — or something else?

At the weekend, President Trump, a crazy cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnamese War film “Apocalypse Now”, Lieutenant Col. Bill Kilgore crouched on a black Stetson hat in front of the Black Helicopters and Flama Chicago Skyline Abuzzed.

“I love the smell of deportation in the morning,” Trump wrote Trump Trump Real social. “Chicago is about to learn why it is called the war department.”

Trump has long promised to place the national guards in the major urban centers of America. However, this summer, Los Angeles and Washington, an unprecedented pressure to distribute military convoys to DC, and from Baltimore to San Francisco more cities, threats to drum more cities to drum-management to protect or fight for people in democratic controlled cities.

When Trump first sent unit to Los Angeles in June, he argued that federal migratory agents should be protected from the natives trying to prevent them from fulfilling their duties. In August, the national guards deployed to Washington DC and seized the crime of violence to demand an emergency situation.

And now he matched Chicago, he matched the problems of crime and migration, and used militarist images and rhetoric that broke the long -standing American norms.

As Trump Goads, the democratic -led cities, as they call them “Hell, are struggling with a fundamental problem of American democracy: Trump defends the accusation of war crime, or does it begin in a new era of American authority?

Trump’s critics warn that he exaggerated the crime to get political points in American cities. While deploying troops to Los Angeles and DC, they argue that Trump has established a military police state aimed at political opponents, violating the necessary process, establishing loyalty to institutionalists, and exceeding the long -term distinctions between military and internal law enforcement officers.

“The authorities behave like this, the leader of a free democracy does not behave like this.” Elizabeth Goitein, Senior Director of the Freedom and National Security Program at Brennan Justice Center, said. “It takes a page from authoritarian rulers around the world as an excuse to strengthen the crime and suppress rights.”

Conservatives tend to put aside such concerns, arguing that Trump’s deployment of troops only gives a campaign promise. They say that they are running on the platform of mass deportation and crime in big cities.

“There is a problem to be handled there,” he said, James E. Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Buffalo. “To employ the national guards, it has constitutional authority to employ, and this is part of the author’s powers in Article II. Some cities that are strange here do not want help – or at least the leaders of cities.”

Although the courts will ultimately solve legal questions about what Trump can do, it seems to be able to put democratic leaders in defense position at a time when the majority of the Americans show that the majority of Americans are worried about the crime.

When Illinois’s democratic government JB Pritzker returned to Trump’s Chicago plans this weekend, he accused the President of “threatening to fight an American city, and insisted that Trump was not broken.

“We won’t war, Tr Trump said to journalists at the White House. “We will clean our cities.”

The Democrats said that Trump is scary in the American cities to get points against political enemies, and that murders and other violence crimes have fallen in the last five years.

Lately analysis By the Council of Criminal Justice Council, a policy thinking tank is lower than the 2020-21 pandemic summit in most cities. However, the report said that most of the decline in the national murder rate was directed by major decreases in cities with high murder rates such as Baltimore and St Louis. More than half of the sample cities continue to have murder levels above the pre -20120 rates.

For many Americans, the crime continues to be a strong political issue.

According to a recent survey, approximately 81% of Americans and 68% of the democrats Related Press-Norc Public Relations Research CenterSee. As the “main problem ında in big cities.

However, it is seen whether the Americans will heat up to Trump’s challenging tactics: approximately 55% of Americans in the EP survey are acceptable for US military and national guards to help local police in big cities, but support less than a third federal union that seized the control of the city police departments.

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During the 2024 election, Trump threatened the national guards to fight crime.

“In cities where the fundamental rights of our citizens are violated in an intolerant way, the law and order are completely deteriorated” Agenda47 Campaign Platform. “I will not hesitate to send federal beings, including the National Guard until the security is recovered.”

Nevertheless, Trump was a bit shocked when a conflict exploded in Paramount in the city of heavy Latino, while the Migratory agents were a little shocked when he deployed to La in June.

The conflict was inadequate than the law and the order of the order. Hundreds of protesters gathered, some of them jumped into federal vehicles, and the agents burned tear gas and flash bangs in the crowd. Trump, 2,000 national guard soldiers within a few hours, California Gov. He ordered Federal Agents and Professional Protection against Gavin Newsom’s will.

It was a very unusual step to send national guards without the consent of the governor. The last time it happened, Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965, when he federalized the national guards of Alabama to protect the marches of civil rights marching from Selma to Montgomery.

But it wasn’t a one -time for La Trump. In August, Trump announced that DC would take the federal control of the police department Washington and activate national guard troops to help “re -establish the law and order. The city said, “Severe gangs and blood -thirsty criminals, wick gangs of wild youths, drugs and homeless people,” he said.

Dist. Atty. Columbia region elected Chief Public Prosecutor Brian Schwalb, controversial Schwalb, “DC DC violence crime reached 30 -year low levels,” he said.

However, Trump put a handful of violent cases in the country’s capital, defending the democrats: Two Israeli Embassy personnel were hit in a fatal way In May, Congress Trainee was killed In June and Management personnel attacked In August, Carjacking attempt.

And a violent workers’ festival, in which he threatened to send troops to Chicago and that nine people were killed and more than 50 people were injured throughout the city, emphasized a similar strategy, as he emphasized at the weekend.

Chicago has long been struggling with violent crimes, but the city officials say that murders and shots have been reduced and the city has led to the lowest murder rate in the half -century.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said that the murders fell 30% in Chicago last year and that the police department had received 24,000 weapons from the streets from most Republican states since he took office in May 2023.

“This stunt is not real. Johnson said, Johnson said last month to release the 800 million dollars of violence prevention funds in Trump, Johnson said last month.

Trump has already declared incredibly fast results in preventing the crime on Washington DC.

The president said, “DC was a hell crazy and now safe,” he said. “We will have no crime in Chicago in a week.”

When Trump’s strategy was asked, Adam Gelb, the President of the Council of Council of Justice Council and General Manager, said that the solutions of the Trump administration of the obvious challenge were “short -term dopamine hit and sustainable long -term solutions”.

“This is what history tells us: We may have a short -term effect on the system with shocks, but they tend to be temporary.”

Gelb was asked what would happen if the shock in the system was permanent.

“Not tested, Gel Gelb said,” Not about a large number of troops in this country. “

Ultimately, Gelb said that Trump’s attack on cities was to testing the Americans’ tolerance to crime and militarization ”.

“If these tactics are perceived that they are responsible for the dramatic decreases in the crime,” he asked, “Will people be more tolerant of them?”

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Trump suggested that the Americans would allow unlimited powers if they were perceived as stopping the crime.

In a cabinet meeting held on television last month, Trump said, “Most people say, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops the crime, it can be anything he wants.

“I am the President of the United States,” he added. “If I think that our country is in danger – and in these cities – I can do it.”

Daniel Treisman, a professor of political science in UCLA, said Trump’s “destroying all the restrictions on his gücü, who came to power in a deep-rooted democracy and wants to behave like an authoritarian, and intimidate his enemies.”

The most worrying, the Trump administration, such as the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office, such as the federal agencies in favor of the loyalists, he said.

Tre Treisman, the columnist of the “Spin dictators: the changing face of the challenge in the 21st century ,, said Trump’s aims to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.

“I want to believe that he will face more obstacles than these leaders,” Treisman said.

Even if the majority of Americans think that Trump is a problem, or that the elimination of the uncertain professions or the necessary process of American cities is an important number – some claim that it does not democratize it.

“There is nothing like choosing a president to take back democracy and violate the superiority of the law, Ged said Goitein. “’Well, the American people have chosen me to break down the constitution’.”