Protests continue in LA, and are expected to spread across the US, as demonstrators demand the end of ICE immigration raids. Donald Trump has defended sending in the National Guard in California. Follow live updates below.
Tuesday 10 June 2025 18:25, UK
Donald Trump is boarding Air Force One and will be heading to Fort Bragg in North Carolina in the next few moments.
The president's motorcade arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland following his comments to reporters in the Oval Office.
The US leader did not give any comments before he entered the plane.
We could see more protests on the streets of other American cities as Donald Trump's immigration policies continue to be acted out, our US correspondent Mark Stone reports.
Stone says there is no evidence at this stage that the LA protesters were paid to protest.
"The focus of the protests - to which maybe some hardliner leftists have joined - has been Trump's immigration policies," he says.
Looking at Trump's mention of the Insurrection Act, Stone explains this would allow him to deploy the military, which he appears already to have done, but in a more "forceful way" and probably through the courts.
"That's if he can prove that what we are seeing is an insurrection. He didn't clarify how he would prove that," Stone says.
"What he and his homeland security chief said, is that they will continue to deploy the National Guard and perhaps the Marines as well.
"And they will do it in other states if necessary.
"I think we could be in for perhaps a summer of seeing this sort of thing on the streets of other American cities as Trump's immigration reforms and policies continue to be acted out."
The US leader goes on to say that by taking the action that he did, he "stopped the violence in Los Angeles".
"We did a great job. We stopped a disaster," he says.
Trump notes that protesters were carrying weapons and "throwing iced water in glass bottles at officers and soldiers".
He calls the protesters "insurrectionists" and "paid agitators" and adds: "They are very bad and dangerous people."
Donald Trump says he waited for governors to send in the National Guard after the riots began and they wouldn't do it.
"They just wouldn't do it," he says.
"The radical left - and it's usually governors that are Democratic - they don't want to call them in.
"They don't want to save lives and they don't want to call them in."
He again repeats if the National Guard was not called in, "Los Angeles would be burning to the ground".
Asked if the National Guard will be in California indefinitely, Trump replies they will stay there "until there is no danger."
"When there is no danger, they will leave," he adds.
Donald Trump is speaking about the situation in Los Angeles and says "last night was terrible" and so was the night before that.
"People with big heavy hammers, pounding the concrete curbs," he says.
He says people were taking these "big chunks of concrete" and dropping it onto car roofs and on police.
"If we didn't get involved, Los Angeles would be burning. Los Angeles right now would be on fire and we have it in great shape," he says.
He says if the National Guard was not sent in "Los Angeles would be burning".
The US leader says they have in custody "some bad people".
He adds: "Los Angeles was under siege until we got there.
"The police were unable to handle it."
The US president is due to leave the White House soon.
But keeping us on our toes, he's started speaking in the Oval Office.
We were expecting him to depart for Fort Bragg (see previous post).
Watch live at the top of this page to see what he has to say.
Donald Trump plans to speak at Fort Bragg later today to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army.
His speech comes as he deploys the military in an attempt to quiet immigration protests in Los Angeles.
Fort Bragg, located near Fayetteville, North Carolina, is home to some 50,000 active-duty soldiers.
Trump's visit comes ahead of a major parade in Washington on Saturday to celebrate the US Army's 250th anniversary.
Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump defended his decision to deploy almost 5,000 military personnel to Los Angeles in an attempt to quell protests against his administration's immigration raids.
Writing on Truth Social, the president said that LA "would be burning to the ground right now" if he hadn't made the order.
He continued to mock California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass as "incompetent" and a "total mess".
The unrest in Los Angeles is expected to spread across the US today, with demonstrations against the Trump administration's immigration raids in other cities.
Our US partner network NBC News reports that protests are planned in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and elsewhere.
More rallies are planned for Saturday.
NBC News counted at least 25 rallies and demonstrations being planned, coast to coast.
Some of them involved only a few dozen participants, while others attracted thousands to make a stand against the detention and removal of suspected undocumented migrants.
Some 56 people were arrested in LA over the weekend after 700 Marines and more than 2,000 National Guard troops were deployed.
The eyes of the world are still on Los Angeles, where protests and violent clashes have been taking place in recent days.
It comes after Donald Trump authorised the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to help respond to the disorder, sparked last week in response to his administration's immigration raids.
The latest deployment means 4,000 National Guard troops have now been mobilised since the beginning of the protests, along with more than 700 Marines based in California.
Gavin Newsom, California's governor, has said he "will sue" against the deployment of troops, and called Trump's activation of Marines in LA a "deranged fantasy".
Stay with us as we bring you the latest.
