Wes Moore

It’s unconstitutional.

Trump was living in 'blissful ignorance' and invoking '1980s scare tactics.'

Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our communities, keep our name out of your mouth.

Something that is just purely performative, without actually focusing on these communities and these neighborhoods who believe that progress is possible.

I refuse to continue doing this and not putting the proper resources in place, and not being able to put a real focus on making our communities safer.

There is a multitude of reasons that I am against this, and I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this.

If one person does not feel safe in their neighborhood, that's one too many. But we also know what tactics actually work, and what tactics is just theatrics.

The reason that I asked the president to come and join us is because he seems to enjoy living in this blissful ignorance, these tropes and these 1980s scare tactics.

I believe in the Constitution, and I believe that that's what we should follow for this case.

I want due process. I just simply want a court and a judge to decide, what is going to be the future fate of this case and all cases like this, and not simply the president of the United States or the secretary of homeland security.

The year before I became the governor, in 2022, Baltimore was averaging almost a homicide a day. And I came in and I said, I refuse to be a governor who just offers thoughts and prayers to this situation.

Well, there's – there's plenty of reasons. You know, one, it is not sustainable. You cannot continue this type of pace of operations, particularly when you're – when it's costing over a million dollars a day in order to do this.

I see this as performative and nothing more.

And so I do not need and will not accept any type of lecture from someone who the only uniform they have worn is a Brooks Brother suit.

Unlike the president of the United States, I’ve actually worn the uniform of this country.

President Trump’s decision to mobilize the National Guard to conduct municipal policing in D.C. lacks seriousness and is deeply dangerous.

This is not a game for people. This is not game theory. This is not checkers. They’re real life. These are real lives.

And then we get upset, and then we’re like, what happened with this group? What happened with that group? And they’re saying like, ‘Yo, what happened to the party?’

We just stopped competing. We stopped making the case. We came up with this philosophy where, listen, it all comes down to three states.

I don’t know…. It’s always challenging if such a large percentage of the country, rightly or wrongly, feel the country is going in the wrong direction.

The promise that I made to the people of Maryland when the Trump administration came on board was that I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one.

And this isn't about politics, this is about standing with our people.

It's an insult to Maryland and the community still suffering in the aftermath of the storm.

After a thorough assessment of the damage, it's clear that additional support is necessary.

These communities demonstrated a clear need through FEMA's own process, and Maryland will appeal the decision to seek all available resources to support the recovery efforts.