Gavin Newsom- It's important for you to know that Trump sent the National Guard here without fuel, water, food or even any kind of clarity of mission. Many of them are just sitting around, or forced to sleep on the floor piled on top of one another.

Donald Trump in 2020 on using the National Guard

CBS News - President Trump on Tuesday said he last spoke with California Gov. Newsom a day ago on the phone to tell him “he’s done a bad job” handling the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. The California governor posted that there was no call and “not even a voicemail.”

Republicans against Trump - Q: "In 2020, you said, 'We have to go by the laws. We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.' What changed now?" ... Trump: "The biggest change from that statement is we have an incompetent governor”

Trump’s travel ban could cement racism as his most dangerous legacy

Washington Post - Young Donald Trump was anything but happy to be sent to military school. His father, Fred, had had it up to here with his son’s disobedience. Trump was 13 and being shipped to New York Military Academy, a boarding school about an hour north of the city, near the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

From the moment Trump arrived in 1959, a stocky teen suddenly stripped of the conveniences of wealth, he was looking for a lifeline, scrambling for something he could master.

Trump was never going to be a stellar student. He played on sports teams and did well, but he found his true home by mastering military rituals and discipline. He had no interest in going to actual war — he managed to win four deferments and a medical waiver to avoid service during the Vietnam conflict — but he was drawn to the school’s strict rules and instant accountability. He liked setting the pace for other cadets, he liked putting on white gloves and full-dress uniform, and he loved the pageantry — especially the parades.

And so, six decades later, on Saturday, we will all get a hefty dose of Trump’s boyhood fantasy of military showmanship. This combined 79th birthday party and wild ego trip — a wayward president’s version of an aging dad buying the red sports car — could cost taxpayers up to $45 million and threatens to rip the District’s streets to smithereens.

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