Fawning MAGA Lawmakers Beg Trump for More Military Takeovers

While the deployments to those largely Democratic-run cities have been met with protests, some Red State politicians, like Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, would welcome a military takeover on their own turf.

“We will take President Donald Trump’s help from New Orleans to Shreveport!” Landry wrote on X last week.

Another Louisiana Republican, House Speaker Mike Johnson, also welcomes a military presence in the Bayou State.

“New Orleans, like most Democrat-run cities, has a high crime rate, so it would be helpful,” Johnson said on Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.

Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy agreed, saying he’d be “delighted to bring in the National Guard.”

“We need all the help we can get,” he added.

Preliminary police data released on Aug. 30 shows the overall crime has dropped 20 percent in New Orleans since last August.

“Depending on what happens, when it happens, if it happens, we’ve looked at what kind of legal actions we could take,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said in an interview with WYPR last week, after a social media scuffle between Trump and Maryland’s Democratic Governor Wes Moore ended with the president threatening a military takeover of Baltimore. “We’ll just be prepared to do whatever we need to do in that moment,” said Scott.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker also called out Trump last week for his suggestion that politicians should be begging him for help.

“When did we become a country where it’s OK for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don’t want?” Pritzker told reporters last week.