Trump: I'm Going Out on Patrol With National Guard

President Trump isn't just deploying federal troops to the streets of DC—he is going out on patrol himself. "I'm going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course," Trump told conservative radio host Todd Starnes on Thursday, reports the Hill. "So we're going to do a job." The White House has not provided any details of what Trump might be doing when he goes out with the National Guard.

The surprise announcement comes a week after Trump ordered hundreds of members of the Guard to the district, as well as a temporary federal takeover of the Capitol police. (The latter move was tempered by a judge.) A number of Republican-led states also have sent members of their own Guards to DC.