Two thousand more National Guard troops, as well as 700 Marines, are on their way to Los Angeles under orders from Donald Trump.

That's on top of the 2,000 troops already in the city, following protests against Trump's hardcore deportation programme.

California Governor Gavin Newsom doesn't want them. The city's police chief says they'll create problems with public safety. And California's attorney general says their presence is unlawful and has filed a lawsuit to send them packing.

But Donald Trump does want them there, claiming the city would have been "completely obliterated" if he hadn't deployed the guard.

He's the first president in about 60 years to call in the Guard without a request from the Governor.

But LA Mayor Karen Bass says the reality on the ground in LA - a city not unfamiliar with policing protests on its streets, even violent ones - is nowhere near as apocalyptic as Trump is making out.

She says the deployment is a "deliberate attempt" by the White House to "create disorder and chaos in our city."

Here's more on that, and all the other wild and unhinged things that happened in Trump world last night. Buckle up.

California Governor Gavin Newsom last night claimed the first 2,000 National Guardsmen sent to LA had been given no food or water and forced to sleep on the floor in federal buildings.

He also said only about 300 had been deployed.

"This is reckless," he tweeted. "Pointless. And disrespectful to our troops."

In lowkey one of the most chilling moments of his second presidency so far, Donald Trump called for a sitting Governor to be arrested, for no reason.

"I would do it if I were Tom [Holman, Trump's border czar," he told reporters outside the White House.

Newsom responded in a post on X: "The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America."

Asked later what crime Newsom had committed, Trump - a convicted felon himself - said: "The crime he committed? Well, the primary crime is running for Governor, because he's done such a bad job. What he's done to that state is what Biden did to this country. And that's pretty bad. It's the wrong philosophy."

In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump appeared to suggest the "insurrectionists" protesting against a wave of deportations in California had taken to spitting at National Guardsmen (who had barely been deployed at that point).

"If they spit, we will hit," he said in the post. "These Patriots are told to accept this, it's just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration. IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!"

Despite repeatedly referring to protesters who disagree with his immigration policy as "insurrectionists", Trump seems curiously reticent to describe the protests as an "insurrection."

"I wouldn't call it quite an insurrection, but it could have led to an insurrection," he said yesterday.

There's a couple of reasons Trump could be reluctant to use the "I" word.

The first is that if he tried to invoke the Insurrection Act, he'd find out pretty quickly that even the violence in LA doesn't meet the legal definition. It's not about the level of violence - it's about the target, which would have to be a "revolt or rebellion against the government".

And the other reason he might want to step lightly around the definition of insurrection, is that January 6th absolutely was one - and about 140 days ago he pardoned all the people behind it.

Cast your mind back to the dog days of Trump v1, when Trump was grilled on having failed to restore law and order.

"I have," Trump insisted. "Except in Democrat run cities.

"Look, we have laws. We have to go by the laws. We can't move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there's no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case."

Asked what had changed yesterday, Trump said: "The biggest change from that statement is we have an incompetent governor, so I talked about governors but I didn't talk about... he's an incompetent governor. Look at the job he's been doing in California."

For the record, Gavin Newsom has been governor of California since January 2019, months before Trump made the above statement.

Riffing, for some reason, on the subject of World War II, Trump repeated one of his weirdest false statements.

"France was celebrating," he said of VE-Day commemorations. "And as you know Hitler made a speech at the Eiffel Tower.

"But when I spoke to President Macron he said 'Oh we are celebrating the great victory of World War II, and I think that's great that he was doing that.

"But we're the one that won it, and we weren't celebrating. And I said to myself, isn't that crazy? And I think it's time for us to celebrate a bit."

Adolf Hitler never gave a speech at the Eiffel Tower. He wasn't even able to go up the Eiffel Tower after Germany invaded France, because the French severed the lift cables just before they took Paris.

Hitler visited occupied Paris in June 1940, and was photographed on the Trocadero with the Tower in the background, but he never made a speech from the landmark.

If you're not familiar with Twitter/X's "menswear guy", Derek Guy is one of the last remaining delights of the increasingly apocalyptic platform. From time to time he does slightly sardonic, but always kindhearted teardowns of (usually famous) men's wardrobes - using them as examples to help people look better in their clothes.

For example, he was not a fan of Rishi Sunak's notoriously short trousers. "Lots of conspiracy theories on why Sunak wears such short trousers … but my theory is simple … Sunak is a vaguely trend-aware guy, but just a little behind the times," he wrote.

"I don't think he has a grand theory for how short sleeves and pants make him look taller".

He's also previously taken aim at JD Vance for wearing trousers that are "too slim" and jackets that "don't hug him very well". He's also branded his ties a "distraction".

So, in recent days he's taken a bit of heat from some on the left for suggesting that while he disagrees with ICE raids and arbitrary deportations, he also disagrees with violence against law enforcement officials.

During the conversation, he admitted he'd been brought into the country as a baby over the Canadian border.

"Since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else," he wrote.

"The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud."

Obviously this has been seized upon by MAGA, who brought it to the attention of JD Vance - who posted this in response...

True to form, Menswear Guy had a response of his own...

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Asked, given reports Elon Musk was "blurring the lines" between medicinal and recreational drug use, he knew if the erratic tech billionaire had ever had drugs on him in the White House, Trump said this: "I really don't know. I don't think so. I hope not."

He added: "I wish him well. Very well, actually."

Trump's big Pyongyang tank parade is this Saturday night, and we're all very excited about it.

The White House has said it'll cost somewhere between $25 and 45 million - including potentially tens of millions of dollars to repair the roads after a massive column of tanks rolls down the city's streets.

Not unreasonably, Trump was asked yesterday who is going to pay for it. Trump says he is.

"A lot of that money is being paid for by me and people that make donations," he claimed. "I don't know if you know that. A lot of it won't even come out of the military...we have people putting up money to do it. Not that I think it's necessary because I think it's a great expenditure."

He went on: "We have many tanks. We have all sorts of new ones and old ones. Old from World War I and World War II. It's really a celebration of the army."

Perhaps protesting too much, he added: "And it's not my birthday. It is my birthday. But I'm not celebrating my birthday. I'm celebrating flag day. It happens to be the same day."

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