(VIDEO) Trump Goes Off on Democrats, Says He Will Send National Guard to Assist TSA and ICE at Airports

President Trump announced on Monday that he plans to send National Guard troops to assist with airport security amid the ongoing Democratic “extortion” scheme that is causing massive delays at airports across the country.

Trump on Monday surged ICE agents to airports to assist TSA with screening passengers after at least 400 TSA agents quit their jobs due to missing paychecks.

Now, if necessary, Trump says he will send in National Guard troops to provide additional assistance.

Trump ripped the Democrats as “the most destructive, sick people” for refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security, revealing that he’ll “bring in the National Guard” if ICE agents aren’t enough as he departed from West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday morning.

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Trump: Yeah, I’d love it. I think it’s great. Let him do that. And I want to thank ICE because they stepped in so, so strongly. They’ll do great. And if that’s not enough, I’ll bring in the National Guard. We’re not going to have the Democrats destroy our country. These people are the most destructive, sick people, the Democrats.

They want— and they’re fighting for this. They’re fighting for men and women’s sports. They’re fighting for transgender for everybody. Everybody go out, get your kid a nice operation, and change the sex of your kid. They’re fighting for— no think of it. They don’t want you to do voter ID.

You walk into a booth in California, if a person who’s doing voting, an official, asks you for identification, they’re subject to being arrested. What’s wrong with this country? So, we’re fighting it hard, and I think they should because the Democrats are being blamed for the shutdown, and it’s their fault, and they’re getting killed. That’s why when I announced yesterday about ICE, the Democrats called, “We want to settle. We want to settle.” And I told the people, don’t settle. Don’t settle because we have something bigger. Only settle if you get the SAVE AMERICA Act, voter ID, and so important proof of citizenship, etc. Thank you very much.

Trump later went off on the Democrats again, doubling down on his plan to potentially call in the Guard to manage airport traffic while speaking at a Memphis Safe Task Force Roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee.

“We’re not going to let this happen. It’s extortion by the Democrats,” he said, accusing the Democrats of acting on behalf of “a criminal element.”

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Trump: The Democrats are fully to blame with the struggle the great American public is going through at the airports. They’re going through a big struggle right now, and we just put ICE in charge, and they’re helping TSA, the agents, and they’re working together, so far, very well. I actually suggested that in the airports they take off their masks, and they did that in the airport.

I’m a big believer in the mask, because we have, you know, Biden allowed hundreds of thousands of killers into our country. We’re rapidly getting them out, by the way, but they would, they would go after these people if they knew exactly who they were. But in the airports is different. I didn’t like, I didn’t love to look in the airport as you get off the plane, so I made a request, and they agreed to it. So, they’re not going to be doing that.

We will also bring out— if we don’t have enough, we will bring out the National Guard, and you know where we need it, to help out at the airports. But we’re not going to let this happen. It’s extortion by the Democrats. They’re holding up money that’s already been approved, and now they’re willing to go $5 billion reduction in ICE in order to get the approval on a deal that they approved, the great Big Beautiful deal, which is the biggest tax cut in history, the biggest regulation cut in history. They want to basically renegotiate a deal that they already approved, and they’re doing it for, largely, for a criminal element.

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