Gavin Newsom

The President, he did it on purpose. As the news spread throughout L.A., anxiety for family and friends ramped up and protests started again.

This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president enflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk.

Trump, without consulting California leaders, commandeered 2,000 of our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason.

$134 million should be going to LA’s fire recovery and is shameful.

[T]his is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.

$134 million that should be going to LA’s fire recovery. Shameful.

Trump chose theatrics over public safety

Democracy is under assault before our eyes

By the way, Trump, he’s not opposed to lawlessness and violence, as long as it serves him. What more evidence do we need than Jan. 6?

This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first – but it clearly won’t end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next.

If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant – based only on suspicion or skin color – then none of us are safe.

What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty. Your silence. To be complicit in this moment. Do not give into him.

Instead of rolling back the program — meaning cutting people off for basic care — we’re capping it.

The deployment was poorly planned, and claimed the soldiers were 'without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep.'

Democracy is under assault

Trump's actions put democracy 'under assault,'

At no point in the past three days has there been a rebellion or an insurrection.

They want a spectacle. They want the violence.

This is not the way a civilized country behaves. It is completely deranged behavior.

A fitting threat given the @GOP want[s] to bring our country back to the 18th Century.

Donald Trump is a stone cold liar.

Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.

This move was purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commander the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation.

This isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles.