United States - January 02, 2026 Shotlist FILE: Washington D.C., USA - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Various of White House FILE: Washington D.C., USA - Oct 2024 (CCTV Video News Agency - No access Chinese mainland) 2. White House FILE: Washington D.C., USA - Nov 5, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 3. Various of U.S. Supreme Court building; security guards FILE: Los Angeles, USA - June 2025 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 4. Various of protesters, National Guard members FILE: Los Angeles, California, USA - June 8, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 5. U.S. national flag 6. National Guard members on street Storyline U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration is pulling the National Guard from three cities run by Democratic mayors -- Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland -- a few days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the administration. "We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact. Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren't for the Federal Government stepping in," Trump said on Truth Social. "We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again," Trump said, calling Democrat mayors and governors of those areas "greatly incompetent." The announcement came just a few days after the Supreme Court blocked Trump's plan to send the National Guard to Chicago to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's agents. Trump has argued that it's necessary to deploy the National Guard to these Democrat-ruled places due to surging crime, while Democrats have questioned the political motivations behind such moves. Upon reassuming the U.S. presidency in January 2025, Donald Trump labeled these three Democratic-led cities as "problem cities." Starting in June of 2025, federal agencies including the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed a large number of officers to carry out operations targeting undocumented immigrants in areas including Los Angeles County, California. Following these actions, the Trump administration subsequently announced the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago to assist with immigration enforcement. Several state and local governments filed lawsuits seeking to block the Trump administration from sending National Guard personnel to their jurisdictions. On December 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a preliminary ruling stating that the Trump administration could not deploy the National Guard to Chicago.