Trump: No federal police help in Democratic cities

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US President Donald Trump, here in a picture from the Oval Office on Friday. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/TT

Federal police should only protect federal buildings and nothing else in Democratic-run cities, unless they ask for help, Donald Trump says.

On Truth Social, the US president writes that federal forces will not "under any circumstances" help "several poorly run Democratic-run cities" with law enforcement and protests until the cities specifically ask for help.

Immigration police ICE and federal border police, led by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), have been instructed to "vigorously" protect federal buildings that are "attacked by paid madmen," Trump writes.

"They will not be spat on in their faces," he writes. If that happens, “these people will suffer the same or worse consequences.”

Local and state property, however, is now the sole responsibility of local governments to protect, Trump writes.

If local governments cannot handle “anarchists,” DHS forces will immediately take action if asked to do so, he writes, continuing:

“To all the local governments, governors, and mayors who complain, let us know when you are ready and we will come – but before we do, you must use the word ‘please.'”