Aug. 24 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Sunday offered to send "troops" to clean up crime in Baltimore after he and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore traded jabs at each other on social media.
The suggestion to send troops to Baltimore, about 40 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., came weeks after Trump deployed the National Guard to the capital to increase patrols and crack down on crime.
While speaking about the Washington deployment on Aug. 11, Trump also called attention to crime in Baltimore and other cities.
"We have other cities also that are bad, very bad," the president said during a news briefing at the White House. "You look at Chicago, how bad it is, you look at Los Angeles, how bad it is, other cities that are very bad, New York is a problem, and then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland -- you don't even mention that anymore, they're so far gone."
On Friday, Trump said he'll next target crime in Chicago and New York City.
