Operation Midway Blitz is underway — whether states like it or not. President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest stunt extends the National Guard nationwide to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement, targeting Democratic-led states, like California, Illinois and Oregon.
The so-called “war ravaged” city of Portland has received 200 members of the Oregon National Guard at its doorstep, as Trump claims ICE facilities are “under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.”
The protests, however, are “largely sedate,” as confirmed by Trump-appointed Oregon District Judge Karin Immergut, who issued a temporary restraining order against the administration’s invasion — writing that protests with fewer than 30 people, known for their absurd and comical costumes or performances, do not merit a military response. With time to waste and enemies to invent, the Trump administration appealed anyway.
Trump’s favorite talking points continue to be cities like Seattle and Portland — which he claims are crumbling under liberal leadership. Yet, facts — as inconvenient as they are for the president — tell a different story. A senior research specialist for the Nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice notes that violent crime in Seattle is actually decreasing. While both cities rank higher than the national crime average, they remain incomparable to Republican-led cities like Memphis and Alexandria, proving that crime does not correlate with a state’s political party.
What truly drives chaos in these communities is not progressive governance — it is federal interference. Chicago’s DHS agents have detained U.S. citizens without cause, arrested non-criminals, fatally shot a Mexican immigrant and even injured a CBS News Reporter with a pepper ball unprovoked. Outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE detention center — another target of Trump’s deployments — protests have taken place to send a message of plea, desperately demonstrating the citizens’ justified right to refuse the deployment of the national guard.
On Oct. 4, despite objections from Illinois’ governor and the mayor of Chicago, 200 members of the Texas National Guard were deployed alongside 300 Illinois National Guard troops to “protect” ICE facilities and personnel in Chicago.
A Chicago Federal Judge temporarily blocked further deployments, but the damage was already done — an armed presence within city limits, justified by little more than see-through “crime” statistics and political spite. On Truth Social, Trump suggested Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Johnson “should be in jail” for failing to protect ICE agents after their joint lawsuit against the administration.
The person truly failing is the president himself. His duty is to protect and serve all constituents, not just those who look, think and speak like him. Operation Midway Blitz is not about security — it is about spectacle and how far Trump can push before Americans push back.
These blunders serve as proof of a disgraceful administration — one that disrespects both the citizens it governs and the Constitution that grants it authority. Operation Midway Blitz is no act of patriotism. It is a performance of power — a president waging war not on crime, but his own country.
