DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Retaliates Against Donald Trump While Addressing Record Breaking Crowd At BLM Plaza

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser retaliated against President Donald Trump while addressing the protesters gathered in her city over the weekend, continuing their ongoing feud.

Bowser and Trump have been at odds over security in the city that they both call home, with Trump saying extra security was needed to fend off protesters that became violent just days ago, setting fire to an area just outside the presidential residence.

The mayor, however, has stood firm in her position that the bulk of the protesters are not a threat and that extra law enforcement will only exacerbate the situation and put the troops in a bad position. Bowser relayed this message to tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered to protest police brutality and the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody.

According to The Hill, Bowser called out Trump for bringing federal troops to D.C., following a sharp escalation in violent protests. The mayor said that using federal troops on a domestic front was something that she hoped she would never see in the United States.

“Our soldiers should not be treated this way. They should not be asked to move on American citizens.”

Bowser told the crowd on Saturday that they needed to be “loud” in demanding “more justice and more peace,” echoing her actions from just a day before the Saturday gathering; Bowser sent a letter to Trump asking to immediately “withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence” from the city, according to The Hill.

According to the city’s mayor, the curfew — which will soon be lifted — and the substantial decrease in arrests, are proof enough that the federal forces need not remain in the city.

Trump previously said he believes that the National Guard “saved her from great embarrassment” this week and called Bowser “incompetent,” in his tweet about security in Washington D.C. as The Inquisitr reported.

Bowser had previously shamed Trump for his increased security measures around the White House in preparation for the Saturday protest, which was expected to be the largest Black Lives Matter rally to date.

Despite Bowser’s objection to increased security, she denied Trump the use of metropolitan police to assist White House security when throngs of demonstrators came close to breaching the presidential residence. Bowser said that it wasn’t the metropolitan police’s job to help protect the White House; Trump called in the National Guard the next day.