President Donald Trump's national tour of performative authoritarianism will roll into Baltimore and Chicago at some point later this year, the president announced Tuesday.
"We're going in," Trump said from the Oval Office.
Trump called Chicago and Baltimore "a hellhole" and said his decision to send federal troops—likely a mix of immigration enforcement police and National Guard troops, as was done previously in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.—was not "a political thing." The White House is framing the effort as an attempt to stop the high levels of gun violence that have plagued parts of those cities for years.
