Katie Francis
Sun 24 August 2025
DAILY BEAST
Donald Trump huffed and puffed online after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore challenged him to walk the streets of his state.
The 79-year-old president lashed out on Truth Social on Sunday at Moore’s “nasty and provocative” invitation three days earlier to join him for some light cardio in Baltimore, calling the city a “crime disaster” and threatening to deploy National Guard troops.
Donald Trump huffed and puffed online after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore challenged him to walk the streets of his state.
The 79-year-old president lashed out on Truth Social on Sunday at Moore’s “nasty and provocative” invitation three days earlier to join him for some light cardio in Baltimore, calling the city a “crime disaster” and threatening to deploy National Guard troops.
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images
“As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a ‘walk,’” Trump fumed. “Wes Moore’s record on Crime is a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other ‘Blue States’ are doing.”
“But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the ‘troops,’ which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime,” the president continued.
Trump was so angry about the public safety walk invitation that he suggested he may pull federal support for rebuilding the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last year.
In a follow-up post, Trump accused Moore of lying about receiving the Bronze Star, although he was honored with one in 2024.
Trump attacked Wes Moore and his 'crime disaster' city after being invited to visit. / Donald Trump/Truth Social
The 46-year-old responded with a pointed jab at the president’s health.
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking – even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland," Moore wrote of the older man.
He added, “Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know.”
The golf cart offer seemed targeted; back in 2017 during a G7 summit in Italy, The Times reported that while the other world leaders took a short walk together to reach the location of a photo op, Trump opted to wait for a golf cart and follow behind them.
The White House and Moore didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
There has been rising concern about Trump’s wellbeing in recent weeks, beyond his confirmed struggles with chronic venous insufficiency.
Trump was seen struggling to walk in a straight line during his summit with Putin on Aug. 15, and referred to it being held in Russia when its actual location was Alaska.
While Trump hasn’t yet responded to Moore’s latest invitation, the governor used an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation to ramp up his attacks against the White House and the GOP.
Not only did he describe the use of the National Guard in areas such as Los Angeles and Washington D.C. as “unconstitutional,” Moore confirmed that he was actively looking at redistricting in response to the gerrymandering wave that kicked off in Texas.
“When I say ‘all options are on the table,’ all options are on the table,” he said of his next move.
THIN SKINNED Trump Threatens to ‘Send in the Troops’ to Baltimore
Richard Hall
Sun 24 August 2025
TIME
President Donald Trump speaks to law enforcement officers during a patrol through Washington, DC, Aug 21. Credit - Anna Moneymaker - Getty Images
President Donald Trump threatened to “send in the ‘troops’” to Baltimore in a lengthy social media post on Sunday directed at Maryland’s Democrat governor, Wes Moore.
The threat came in response to an invitation from Moore for the President to take part in a safety walk in Baltimore following Trump’s repeated comments about the city's problems with crime.
“As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a ‘walk,’” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
“But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the ‘troops,’ which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime,” he added.
Moore responded soon after with his own jab at the president.
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking – even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” he wrote on X.
“Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know,” he added.
Read more: Trump Says Chicago Is Next in His Crackdown on Crime. Here Are the Facts About Crime in the City
Trump's threat comes nearly two weeks after he deployed the National Guard and took federal control over the police force in Washington, D.C., as part of what his administration has claimed is a crackdown on crime.
In June, the President deployed the California National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles, ostensibly to quell protests against his administration's immigration policies.
Trump's threat to deploy troops to Baltimore follows a series of similar threats aimed at Democratic-run cities across the country.
When announcing the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., Trump said: “This will go further.”
“We’re going to take back our capital … and then we’ll look at other cities also,” singling out Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Oakland.
The President said Friday that Chicago was next on his list, telling reporters: “After we do this, we’ll go to another location and we’ll make it safe also.”
“Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out, probably next.”
Trump has begun to use the potential deployment of National Guard troops as a cudgel to hit back at his Democratic critics. His spat with Moore appears to have been sparked by the governor's criticism of his takeover of Washington, D.C.
In Moore's letter to Trump inviting him to Baltimore, he wrote that public safety was personally important to him because he “grew up in and around communities left behind by people in power, who sought to weaponize the pain of their constituents through hollow talking points that never changed the reality on the ground.”
“Homicides in Maryland are down statewide by 20% since my inauguration two and a half years ago. In the first six months of 2025, the Baltimore Police Department continued to see double-digit reductions in gun violence, including a 22% decrease in homicides and a 19% decrease in non-fatal shootings from the year before. We are currently on track to have the lowest number of homicides in Baltimore City since we began officially keeping crime statistics,” he added.
Trump responded in his post that “Wes Moore’s record on Crime is a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other 'Blue States' are doing,” without providing evidence for his claim
PETTY & PETULENT Trump slams Moore, says he might ‘have to rethink’ money given for Baltimore’s Key Bridge
Rachel Scully
Sun 24 August 2025
President Trump criticized Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Sunday for asking the president to “come walk the streets with us,” saying he needs to “rethink” his decision to give money for the bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after being struck by a cargo ship.
Trump suggested last week that he could bring his takeover efforts to other Democratic-led cities, including Baltimore, which he called in his Truth Social post on Sunday morning “out of control” and “crime ridden.”
“Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has asked, in a rather nasty and provocative tone, that I ‘walk the streets of Maryland’ with him,” Trump wrote. “I assume he is talking about out of control, crime ridden, Baltimore? As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a ‘walk.'”
He also accused Moore of having a “very bad” record in his handling of crime in the state and offered to send troops to the state if he “needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A.”
“After only one week, there is NO CRIME AND NO MURDER IN DC! When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly ‘walk the streets’ with the failing, because of Crime, Governor of Maryland,” he wrote.
“P.S. Baltimore is ranked the 4th WORST CITY IN THE NATION IN CRIME & MURDER,” he continued. “Stop talking and get to work, Wes. I’ll then see you on the streets!!!”
Trump’s fiery comments come after Moore invited the president to “come walk the streets with us” following Trump’s negative comments about Baltimore.
“I’d love for the president to take us up on our offer and actually come walk the streets with us,” Moore said on NewsNation’s “CUOMO.”
“If the president is going to make comments about Baltimore, then the president should actually make sure [they’re] informed comments, because the truth is, the comments that he is making from the Oval Office, the personal attacks that he’s made on me from the Oval Office, they are just inaccurate, they’re ignorant,” he added.
In his post, Trump also said he might need to “rethink” the funding he said he gave to Moore to fix the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed in March 2024.
“Also, I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision???” he wrote.
In another post, Trump also asked whether Moore, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, lied about receiving a Bronze Star.
“Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?” he wrote in another post.
In December, Moore received a Bronze Star for his military service in Afghanistan nearly two decades after he was deployed overseas following a New York Times report that Moore, in 2006, had written on an application that he received a Bronze Star for his service when, in fact, he never received it.
After the report, Moore said he made an “honest mistake,” but that his deputy brigade commander had recommended him for the Bronze Star — and told him to include the award on his application “after confirming with two other senior-level officers that they had also signed off on the commendation.”
Moore responded to Trump’s posts, calling him “President Bone Spurs.”
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” he wrote after Trump’s posts. “Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know.”
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
Trump threatens to cut off Key bridge repair money after Maryland governor tells him to keep National Guard out of Baltimore
John Bowden
Sun 24 August 2025
The post came in response to Moore’s invitation to the president to walk the city of Baltimore.
Moore attempted to extend an olive branch to the president with his invitation last week, which came amid Trump’s threats to extend his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. to other cities with Democratic leadership and large Black populations
“Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our communities, keep our name out of your mouth,” Moore said last week.
But Trump wasn’t having it.
In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, he claimed the governor’s record on “crime” is “a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other ‘Blue States’ are doing.”
He said he would send in “troops” like he did in Los Angeles to “quickly clean up the Crime.”
“When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly ‘walk the streets’ with the failing, because of Crime, Governor of Maryland,” he wrote.
The White House announced earlier in August that it was federalizing Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploying the National Guard and agents from multiple federal law enforcement agencies on the streets of the nation’s capital. The purpose was ostensibly to combat a crime wave, though the administration’s explanation has shifted between fighting crime and beautification measures. After a few days, control of the police was returned to city leaders.
National Guard troops remain across D.C., however, and federal agents continue to patrol city streets. The president said on Friday that he was looking to expand his efforts to other cities led by Democrats, though legal restrictions over the deployment of the Guard will likely hinder that plan.
Moore, like other Democratic governors, has said that he will refuse to authorize the deployment of Maryland’s National Guard troops for crimefighting efforts in Baltimore.
But Sunday’s post from the president is an indication he could attempt to use Department of Transportation and FEMA disaster relief funding as a means of enticing Democratic governors to do his bidding.
“It's interesting the president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people, and that's why I'm asking him to keep his focus,” Moore told CBS Face the Nation when asked about Trump’s remarks about the governor’s possible presidential ambitions.
“Focus on the things that actually matter right now, which is the fact that his economic policies are driving up prices on everything from electronics, to the clothes that we wear, to the food that we eat,” Moore said. “Talk about the fact that he has immigration policies that are knocking out tens of thousands of jobs in the state of Maryland. Talk about the fact that you are about to kick veterans and seniors off of health care. Don't worry about my future. Worry about theirs.”
After his appearance on the show on Sunday, Moore fired back at Trump’s
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” Moore wrote, referencing the president’s medical deferment that exempted him from being drafted into military service during the Vietnam War.
“Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier,” Moore wrote. “Just let my team know.”
A cargo ship, now removed, pictured under the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after causing its destruction in 2024 (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, named after the poet who penned “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was a Baltimore landmark for decades. Its destruction in 2024, the result of a cargo ship losing power and steering into a support column, also caused the deaths of a work crew who were performing maintenance on the bridge in the late evening hours when the incident took place.
The closure of that stretch of Maryland’s I-695 beltway continues to disrupt transit around Baltimore and had immediate and significant effects on the state economy. The destruction shuttered the Port of Baltimore for 11 weeks, at a staggering economic impact estimated around $15 million per day.
In a separate post on Truth Social the president questioned whether Moore, who served in the Army, lied about being awarded a Bronze Star.
Moore was awarded a Bronze Star last year for meritorious service; Army officials acknowledged that the mixup was a result of paperwork not being properly processed, not deception on Moore’s part.
Richard Hall
Sun 24 August 2025
TIME
President Donald Trump speaks to law enforcement officers during a patrol through Washington, DC, Aug 21. Credit - Anna Moneymaker - Getty Images
President Donald Trump threatened to “send in the ‘troops’” to Baltimore in a lengthy social media post on Sunday directed at Maryland’s Democrat governor, Wes Moore.
The threat came in response to an invitation from Moore for the President to take part in a safety walk in Baltimore following Trump’s repeated comments about the city's problems with crime.
“As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a ‘walk,’” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
“But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the ‘troops,’ which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime,” he added.
Moore responded soon after with his own jab at the president.
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking – even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” he wrote on X.
“Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know,” he added.
Read more: Trump Says Chicago Is Next in His Crackdown on Crime. Here Are the Facts About Crime in the City
Trump's threat comes nearly two weeks after he deployed the National Guard and took federal control over the police force in Washington, D.C., as part of what his administration has claimed is a crackdown on crime.
In June, the President deployed the California National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles, ostensibly to quell protests against his administration's immigration policies.
Trump's threat to deploy troops to Baltimore follows a series of similar threats aimed at Democratic-run cities across the country.
When announcing the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., Trump said: “This will go further.”
“We’re going to take back our capital … and then we’ll look at other cities also,” singling out Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Oakland.
The President said Friday that Chicago was next on his list, telling reporters: “After we do this, we’ll go to another location and we’ll make it safe also.”
“Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out, probably next.”
Trump has begun to use the potential deployment of National Guard troops as a cudgel to hit back at his Democratic critics. His spat with Moore appears to have been sparked by the governor's criticism of his takeover of Washington, D.C.
In Moore's letter to Trump inviting him to Baltimore, he wrote that public safety was personally important to him because he “grew up in and around communities left behind by people in power, who sought to weaponize the pain of their constituents through hollow talking points that never changed the reality on the ground.”
“Homicides in Maryland are down statewide by 20% since my inauguration two and a half years ago. In the first six months of 2025, the Baltimore Police Department continued to see double-digit reductions in gun violence, including a 22% decrease in homicides and a 19% decrease in non-fatal shootings from the year before. We are currently on track to have the lowest number of homicides in Baltimore City since we began officially keeping crime statistics,” he added.
Trump responded in his post that “Wes Moore’s record on Crime is a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other 'Blue States' are doing,” without providing evidence for his claim
PETTY & PETULENT Trump slams Moore, says he might ‘have to rethink’ money given for Baltimore’s Key Bridge
Rachel Scully
Sun 24 August 2025
THE HILL
President Trump criticized Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Sunday for asking the president to “come walk the streets with us,” saying he needs to “rethink” his decision to give money for the bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after being struck by a cargo ship.
Trump suggested last week that he could bring his takeover efforts to other Democratic-led cities, including Baltimore, which he called in his Truth Social post on Sunday morning “out of control” and “crime ridden.”
“Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has asked, in a rather nasty and provocative tone, that I ‘walk the streets of Maryland’ with him,” Trump wrote. “I assume he is talking about out of control, crime ridden, Baltimore? As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a ‘walk.'”
He also accused Moore of having a “very bad” record in his handling of crime in the state and offered to send troops to the state if he “needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A.”
“After only one week, there is NO CRIME AND NO MURDER IN DC! When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly ‘walk the streets’ with the failing, because of Crime, Governor of Maryland,” he wrote.
“P.S. Baltimore is ranked the 4th WORST CITY IN THE NATION IN CRIME & MURDER,” he continued. “Stop talking and get to work, Wes. I’ll then see you on the streets!!!”
Trump’s fiery comments come after Moore invited the president to “come walk the streets with us” following Trump’s negative comments about Baltimore.
“I’d love for the president to take us up on our offer and actually come walk the streets with us,” Moore said on NewsNation’s “CUOMO.”
“If the president is going to make comments about Baltimore, then the president should actually make sure [they’re] informed comments, because the truth is, the comments that he is making from the Oval Office, the personal attacks that he’s made on me from the Oval Office, they are just inaccurate, they’re ignorant,” he added.
In his post, Trump also said he might need to “rethink” the funding he said he gave to Moore to fix the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed in March 2024.
“Also, I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision???” he wrote.
In another post, Trump also asked whether Moore, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, lied about receiving a Bronze Star.
“Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?” he wrote in another post.
In December, Moore received a Bronze Star for his military service in Afghanistan nearly two decades after he was deployed overseas following a New York Times report that Moore, in 2006, had written on an application that he received a Bronze Star for his service when, in fact, he never received it.
After the report, Moore said he made an “honest mistake,” but that his deputy brigade commander had recommended him for the Bronze Star — and told him to include the award on his application “after confirming with two other senior-level officers that they had also signed off on the commendation.”
Moore responded to Trump’s posts, calling him “President Bone Spurs.”
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” he wrote after Trump’s posts. “Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know.”
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
Trump threatens to cut off Key bridge repair money after Maryland governor tells him to keep National Guard out of Baltimore
John Bowden
Sun 24 August 2025
THE INDEPENDENT
Trump threatens to cut off Key bridge repair money after Maryland governor tells him to keep National Guard out of Baltimore
Donald Trump deepened his feud with Maryland’s Democratic governor on Sunday and threatened to cancel funding for the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was destroyed by a ship strike last year.
The Republican president made no attempt to offer a reason for his threat other than his own political differences with Wes Moore, Maryland’s governor and the only Black leader of a U.S. state.
Instead, the president made clear in a Truth Social post that disaster relief funding would be wielded as a political weapon against any state or local leaders who dared challenge him.
“I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge,” Trump said on Sunday, which isn’t true. He wasn’t president in 2024, when full federal funding for the project was allocated during government funding negotiations.
He continued: “I will now have to rethink that decision???”
Trump threatens to cut off Key bridge repair money after Maryland governor tells him to keep National Guard out of Baltimore
Donald Trump deepened his feud with Maryland’s Democratic governor on Sunday and threatened to cancel funding for the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was destroyed by a ship strike last year.
The Republican president made no attempt to offer a reason for his threat other than his own political differences with Wes Moore, Maryland’s governor and the only Black leader of a U.S. state.
Instead, the president made clear in a Truth Social post that disaster relief funding would be wielded as a political weapon against any state or local leaders who dared challenge him.
“I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge,” Trump said on Sunday, which isn’t true. He wasn’t president in 2024, when full federal funding for the project was allocated during government funding negotiations.
He continued: “I will now have to rethink that decision???”
The post came in response to Moore’s invitation to the president to walk the city of Baltimore.
Moore attempted to extend an olive branch to the president with his invitation last week, which came amid Trump’s threats to extend his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. to other cities with Democratic leadership and large Black populations
“Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our communities, keep our name out of your mouth,” Moore said last week.
But Trump wasn’t having it.
In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, he claimed the governor’s record on “crime” is “a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other ‘Blue States’ are doing.”
More in Politics Trump, 79, Melts Down at Being Challenged to a Walk by Dem, 46
He said he would send in “troops” like he did in Los Angeles to “quickly clean up the Crime.”
“When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly ‘walk the streets’ with the failing, because of Crime, Governor of Maryland,” he wrote.
The White House announced earlier in August that it was federalizing Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploying the National Guard and agents from multiple federal law enforcement agencies on the streets of the nation’s capital. The purpose was ostensibly to combat a crime wave, though the administration’s explanation has shifted between fighting crime and beautification measures. After a few days, control of the police was returned to city leaders.
National Guard troops remain across D.C., however, and federal agents continue to patrol city streets. The president said on Friday that he was looking to expand his efforts to other cities led by Democrats, though legal restrictions over the deployment of the Guard will likely hinder that plan.
Moore, like other Democratic governors, has said that he will refuse to authorize the deployment of Maryland’s National Guard troops for crimefighting efforts in Baltimore.
But Sunday’s post from the president is an indication he could attempt to use Department of Transportation and FEMA disaster relief funding as a means of enticing Democratic governors to do his bidding.
“It's interesting the president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people, and that's why I'm asking him to keep his focus,” Moore told CBS Face the Nation when asked about Trump’s remarks about the governor’s possible presidential ambitions.
“Focus on the things that actually matter right now, which is the fact that his economic policies are driving up prices on everything from electronics, to the clothes that we wear, to the food that we eat,” Moore said. “Talk about the fact that he has immigration policies that are knocking out tens of thousands of jobs in the state of Maryland. Talk about the fact that you are about to kick veterans and seniors off of health care. Don't worry about my future. Worry about theirs.”
After his appearance on the show on Sunday, Moore fired back at Trump’s
“President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland,” Moore wrote, referencing the president’s medical deferment that exempted him from being drafted into military service during the Vietnam War.
“Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier,” Moore wrote. “Just let my team know.”
A cargo ship, now removed, pictured under the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after causing its destruction in 2024 (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, named after the poet who penned “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was a Baltimore landmark for decades. Its destruction in 2024, the result of a cargo ship losing power and steering into a support column, also caused the deaths of a work crew who were performing maintenance on the bridge in the late evening hours when the incident took place.
The closure of that stretch of Maryland’s I-695 beltway continues to disrupt transit around Baltimore and had immediate and significant effects on the state economy. The destruction shuttered the Port of Baltimore for 11 weeks, at a staggering economic impact estimated around $15 million per day.
In a separate post on Truth Social the president questioned whether Moore, who served in the Army, lied about being awarded a Bronze Star.
Moore was awarded a Bronze Star last year for meritorious service; Army officials acknowledged that the mixup was a result of paperwork not being properly processed, not deception on Moore’s part.
No comments:
Post a Comment