The exchange of malignancy escalates when the administration of Donald Trump plans to expand the program of using military personnel on the streets of cities managed by Democrats, which he often describes as full of crime. In Washington, she has already arranged over 2,000 national guard soldiers. In turn, a few earlier Moore challenged Trump, formally inviting him to his state to take part in the public security march next month.
“Governor Wes Moore of Maryland asked, in a rather nasty and provocative tone, that I would” cross him on the streets of Maryland “” – wrote Trump on Truth Social, a social media platform, of which he owns. “Wes Moore's results in the field of crime are very bad, unless it falsifies his data on crime. […] I will send troops as it happens in nearby Washington“.
“I also gave Wesa Moore a lot of money to repair his demolished bridge. I will have to think about this decision” – Trump later added, referring to the collapse in March 2024. Francis Scott Key, in which six people were killed when a huge freight ship hit him.
Trump “likes to live in this blissful ignorance”
Moore defended his efforts to reduce crime from the time of taking office in 2023. He argued that The murder rate in a state dropped by more than 20 percent.adding: “The last time the murder indicator was so low in the Baltimore City, I was not in the world yet.” He referred to statistics that show that 68 killings in the city in the first half of the year are at least in 50 years.
– The reason I asked the president to come and join us is that He seems to like to live in this blissful ignorance,[…] These stereotypes and these tactics of scaring from the 1980s – said Moore in the Sunday program of CBS Face the Nation.
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Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland. Largo, December 17, 2024
When the leader of Margaret Brennan pointed to FBI statistics showing that Baltimore ranks fifth in terms of the number of brutal crimes per capita and the fourth highest murder indicator, Moore's answer was: “We have a job to do”. Moore blamed the president for cutting off funds for preventing violence and engaging only in a performance, not real policy. He also reminded about his own military service in Afghanistan, contrasting her with Trump, criticized for avoiding the consumption during the Vietnam war.
– from the perspective of someone who actually served my country abroad with a weapon in hand, Asking these men and women for work, to which they are not trained, is simply deeply disrespectful Moore said, repeating that he would not deploy the Maryland national guard, which he supervises.
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– members of our National Guard are trained, To deal with crisis situationssituations in which a lot of support is needed in the case of trauma and disasters that take place in individual jurisdictions. This is not the point and it is a direct abuse that the president allows – he concluded.
Mayor of Baltimore: We are not interested
Moore issued an invitation a few days after Trump promised to patrol the streets of the Colombia district with the metropolitan police and military staff. However, after his speech, while bringing hamburger and pizza staff, no patrol took place, and the president himself returned to the White House.
At the beginning of August, announcing “Washington's Liberation Day”, Trump mentioned Baltimore and other cities managed by black mayors from the Democratic Party – including Chicago, Oakland, Los Angeles and New York – as places that are “so far -reaching” and the crime imposed on crime Federal intervention should be considered. “Washington Post” announced on Sunday that Pentagon has been planning to arrange troops in Chicago for weeks.
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President Donald Trump during a press conference on the fight against crime in Washington, August 11, 2025.
The mayor of Baltimore Brandon Scott seemed to reject the idea of federal troops in his city, but on Friday he appealed for “additional resources” for the Municipal Field Branches of ATF [Biura do spraw Alkoholu, Tytoniu i Broni Palnej]DEA [Agencji do Walki z Narkotykami] and FBI As part of the list of “obligations”, which the city expects after Trump's administration.
“Otherwise, if Trump wants to enter Baltimore just to take a photo session and spit out racist narratives I talk about cities led by Czarnych on behalf of the vast majority of our residents: we are not interested – he said.
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