Trump thinks he's meeting Putin in Russia. That's concerning | Opinion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/11/trump-dc-crime-national-guard-putin-us/85614586007/"For starters, on two occasions Trump told reporters he will be meeting in days with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia. The meeting will be held in Alaska, which, unless Trump has given away one of America's states to Putin, is very much not in Russia.
A mistake like that from President Biden would have prompted Republicans to launch a congressional investigation into his competency and CNN's Jake Tapper to pen a book on the presidential competency scandal of a generation. Two mistakes like that from Biden would have effectively spun the U.S. news media into a months-long cyclone of speculation and hysteria……
Asked a specific question about whether other cities like Chicago and Los Angeles might expect similar action involving the use of the National Guard to combat crime, Trump said, in part, this:
"But when I look at Chicago and I look at LA, if we didn't go to LA three months ago, LA would be burning like the part that didn't burn. If you would've allowed the water to come down, which I told them about in my first term, I said, 'You're going to have problems, let it come down'. We actually sent in our military to have the water come down into LA. They still didn't want it to come down after the fires. But that was it, we have it coming down. But hopefully LA is watching. That mayor also, the city is burning, they lost like 25,000 homes. I went there the day after the fire, you were there, and I saw people standing in front of a burned-down home. Their homes were incinerated, they weren't like, even the steel, literally it was all warped, literally disintegrated because of the winds and the flames like a blow torch. They were standing on this beautiful day, maybe a couple of days after, we gave it a little time because of what they had suffered. Almost 25,000 homes. And you see what's happening now, they didn't give their permits. I went to a town hall meeting I said we're going to get you the federal permit, which are much harder."
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