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An overview of Trump's increasing threats to deploy the National Guard in major cities

By Scott Simon,

Kat Lonsdorf

Published September 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM CDT

President Trump is ramping up threats to send the National Guard into several major cities despite a federal judge ruling that his deployment of troops to Los Angeles was illegal.

Scott Simon

Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.

Kat Lonsdorf