Trump and Wes Moore trade barbs about Baltimore crime and National Guard deployment

Published August 25, 2025 8:34am ET



President Donald Trump and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), a rising star within the Democratic Party, traded verbal blows over the weekend.

Moore began the recent feud with pointed criticism of the president for deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., calling it “deeply dangerous.”

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