The city is now Ground Zero, not just for Trump’s determination to pursue his mass deportation of immigrants. It is also where his Republican party’s nascent campaign strategy is emerging for the midterm elections in November 2026.
Whether the protests in Los Angeles fizzle out – as seemed possible after Monday’s relatively quiet night in the city – or intensify, the US President is already proclaiming victory. “If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles…that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now”, he exclaimed via social media on Tuesday.
Several cars were set on fire, sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky in Los Angeles as crowds protested immigration raids (Photo: Ringo Chiu/AFP)
But Trump is playing to polling that shows the majority of voters approve of his determination to remove illegal immigrants from communities all over the country. His base adores the US President’s activities, with a whopping 93 per cent of Republicans telling a CBS News poll last weekend that they back his campaign. Those numbers may be helped by the fake images and conspiracy theories about events in Los Angeles that are flooding X and other social media platforms, eagerly distributed and shared by Trump’s “Make America Great Again” faithful.
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That the protests are taking place only in small pockets of Los Angeles is irrelevant to Trump’s narrative. The images of cars being set alight, police vehicles being pelted with cinderblocks, and lawlessness even on a handful of streets are fueling the US President’s argument that he was forced to take action while Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass sat on their hands.
“He knows where to find me…Come after me”, Newsom raged on MSNBC. “Arrest me. Let’s just get this over with”, he said, sarcastically describing Homan as a “tough guy”. Hours later, Trump doubled down on the threat to arrest the Governor, telling reporters that “I’d do it…he’s done a terrible job”.
Whether he turns to the Act now or keeps it in his arsenal for later will depend in large measure on the protestors’ direction of travel over the next few days. In a worst-case scenario for American democracy, he could go even further and declare a state of emergency that might upend the prospects of the mid-terms taking place on schedule next year.
Less than a week after the country was bingeing on the social media slanging match between the US President and his former protégé Elon Musk, suddenly the White House believes everything is coming up Trump. “We couldn’t script this any better”, one White House official told the website Politico on Tuesday. The script’s plot is still being written, but Trump currently likes the way his new storyline is moving.
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