National Guard on the ground in Los Angeles after Trump's deployment order

President Donald Trump said Sunday he was not prepared at this time to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to respond to protests in the Los Angeles area as he deployed 2,000 National Guard members to the region, a move the state’s governor condemned as “purposefully inflammatory.”

Trump described California Gov. Gavin Newsom as “incompetent” and weighed in on his Friday call with the Democrat, which lasted 40 minutes, according to Newsom’s office.

“I said, ‘Look, you gotta take care of this, otherwise I’m sending in the troops.’ That’s what we did,” Trump said of the call.

President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops despite the governor's objections to Los Angeles, where protests led to clashes between immigration authorities and demonstrators.

Confrontations broke out again for a second day on Saturday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom objected to the move and said in a post on X that the move from the Republican president was "purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions."