In a scathing Oval Office address, President Donald Trump made explosive claims accusing California Governor Gavin Newsom of funding anti-ICE protesters to sow chaos across Los Angeles. Trump labeled the protests as a “paid insurrection,” accusing demonstrators of violent tactics and warning that enemies of the state will be crushed.
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00:00And these are paid insurrectionists. These are paid troublemakers. They're agitators. They're paid.
00:30If you want, we'll take a few questions.
00:34Mr. President, would you convoke the Insurrection Act to deal with the situation in California?
00:39If there's an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We'll see.
00:43But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible.
00:49We have, as you've seen, it was on most of your networks, people with big, heavy hammers pounding the concrete and pounding curbs, pounding and breaking up all...
00:59And handing these big chunks of concrete to people.
01:03And they were taking that concrete, going up on bridges and dropping it into the roof of a car.
01:07They were throwing it at our police. They were throwing it at our soldiers that are there.
01:12And we got it stopped. And we have them in custody right now.
01:17Look, if we didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would be burning, just like it was burning a number of months ago with all the houses that were lost.
01:27Los Angeles right now would be on fire. And we have it in great shape and not playing around.
01:33How will you determine whether or not there is an insurrection?
01:37Well, you'll take a look at what's happening. I mean, I could tell you there were certain areas of that, of Los Angeles, that you could have called it an insurrection.
01:45It was terrible. But these are paid insurrectionists. These are paid troublemakers.
01:50They get money. And when you take a look at what they do, where they show up and everyone's saying, what's he doing?
01:56He's pounding the curbs. This one guy's pounding the curb, breaking the curb and handing big pieces of granite.
02:02In some cases, it's granite, granite and concrete to other people.
02:07And they're running out with it. And then we watch the other people and they try and throw it into the face of the soldiers, throw it into the face of the police.
02:16And they hurt some people very badly. They go up on bridges. They drop it down on the cars as the cars are moving.
02:22They're not breaking the curb because they're doing a demolition service.
02:27They're breaking it to hand out to people as a weapon.
02:30That's bad. It's bad stuff. I've never seen that before.
02:33If we didn't get involved right now, Los Angeles would be burning just like it was burning a number of months ago with all the houses that were lost.
02:43Los Angeles right now would be on fire and we have it in great shape.
03:03I, in partnership with Governor Gavin Newsom, are suing President Trump and asking the court,
03:33to set aside the president's unlawful action, federalizing the California National Guard.
03:41With this order, Trump and Hegseth ignored law enforcement's expertise and guidance and trampled over our state's California's sovereignty.
