Trump to deploy Marines in Los Angeles? POTUS says 'send in the troops' amid anti-ICE riots
President Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to say that the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles are 'looking really bad.' He wrote, 'Looking really bad in L.A. BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!'
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