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THE TRUMP REGIME
No, Trump Did Not Issue an Emergency Proclamation to Send Troops to L.A.
I don’t know who did, but it wasn’t Trump
The media, including the anti-Trump media, consistently claims that Trump issued a memorandum sending the National Guard to L.A. to do whatever it is that TACO Con is afraid Angelenos might do that scares him.
I’m going to quote from The Bulwark, which is a prominent Never Trumper Substack publication that is so effective at Never Trumping (insert sarcasm font) that Trump won re-election somehow against an exciting female candidate who consistently drew enthusiastic crowds bigger than NBA championships.
This morning, The Bulwark, in attempting to explain the Trump regime’s latest chicanery, wrote this while describing the latest White House communications regarding the National Guard’s unwelcome visit to California (bold is mine):
On Saturday evening, June 7, 2025, the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, issued a presidential memorandum addressed to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, and the secretary of homeland security. One might call it the Usurpation Proclamation. And while this weekend’s mobilization of two thousand National Guard troops in Los Angeles has alarmed many observers, I suspect we…
