“I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud, nothing I can do,” President Donald Trump told a joint session of Congress on March 4.
Democrats recently proved Trump’s point through their contradictory responses to his handling of the National Guard—yesterday and today.
Democrats excoriated Trump for not dispatching the National Guard to neutralize the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
• Noting the National Guard’s absence, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York declared: “We’re like a Third World country here.”
• “The three-hour-and-19-minute delay in authorizing the deployment of the National Guard … left police, members of Congress, staff, and the public in danger and is without question completely unacceptable,” said Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan.
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California asked, “Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?”
• “After a series of delays, the National Guard did not arrive until 5:20 p.m., more than four hours after the Capitol perimeter was breached,” House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney of New York told CNN. “This is a shocking failure.”
• “Donald Trump sat on his hands … and refused to send out the National Guard,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins stated. “Despite desperate calls … Trump did nothing.”
Actually, Trump authorized up to 10,000 National Guard troops to “make sure it’s safe” on Jan. 6, 2021. Nonetheless, Trump internalized Democrats’ complaints: In case of civil unrest, mobilize the National Guard—chop chop.
Flash forward to June 6, 2025, when anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots exploded in Los Angeles. Masked thugs with hammers attacked sidewalks and the protective bollards around federal buildings. They harvested hunks of concrete and hurled them at law-enforcement vehicles. Domestic terrorists on an overpass chucked projectiles onto police cars on Highway 101. Others launched fireworks at cops.
One skateboard-wielding punk shattered the windows at Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. These nihilistic vermin summoned three driverless Waymo sedans, lined them up, and set them ablaze. Rioters waved large Mexican and Palestinian flags and repeatedly torched the Stars and Stripes.
(Parenthetically, why did these ICE-hating hoodlums attack Waymo? These adorable cars are not ICE property. Any illegal alien who stepped into an unchauffeured ICE vehicle deserves immediate deportation—not for invading America but for being terminally stupid.)
While Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered the LAPD to stand down, Trump quickly deployed the National Guard. Democrats, naturally, were thrilled to see Trump follow their advice.
Oh, wait. The exact opposite ensued.
Democrats were enraged that Trump did in Los Angeles on June 7, 2025, precisely what they demanded in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
• “This is an abuse of power by the President of the United States,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California thundered. “He is using the National Guard as a political pawn, trying to provoke further unrest.”
• “This is intentional chaos,” Bass said. “There was no need to federalize troops.”
• Trump’s National Guard deployment, without gubernatorial permission, is “unprecedented,” Sen. Adam Schiff of California lied. (In reality, Democrats Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson were among the 11 U.S. presidents who have sent federal troops and National Guardsmen to restore domestic tranquility, often stymieing governors and local officials.) “This action is designed to inflame tensions, sow chaos, and escalate the situation.”
• Rep. Maxine Waters told CNN: “There’s no reason to be here with the National Guard. The president of the United States is cruel.”
•“Federalizing and deploying the National Guard will only make matters much worse. It’s Un-American and reeks of fascism,” said California state Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire.
• Los Angeles-based TV host Jimmy Kimmel said: “When we had the wildfires that devastated big chunks of our city, [Trump] did absolutely nothing. Now that we’re in the middle of a non-emergency, ‘Send in the National Guard!’”
Kimmel is absolutely right. As Altadena and Pacific Palisades went up in smoke, Trump utterly failed to dispatch the National Guard.
Why?
These hellfires erupted last Jan. 7—13 days before Trump returned to the White House. As a then-private citizen, Trump could not send in the Girl Scouts, much less the National Guard.
Either Kimmel is too boneheaded to understand that Trump was powerless to deploy anyone anywhere last Jan. 7, or he regards his audience as too foolish to recognize when he hisses lies on his late-night “comedy show.”
Top Democrats slammed Trump for not deploying the National Guard during a riot and then bashed him for deploying the National Guard during a riot. This confirms that today’s Democrats are not powered by principle. Something else propels them: red-hot hatred of Donald Trump.
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