LA riots live: Trump unleashes on ‘incompetent’ Gavin Newsom after video message fail as ICE protests spread

President Donald Trump blasted California Gov. Gavin Newsom again this morning over his handling of the LA riots.

The president, in a post on his Truth Social platform, criticized Newsom for failing to protect federal agents from ‘insurrectionists’.

Trump branded Newsom ‘incompetent’ in his latest jab in the duo’s war of words.

A protester in Los Angeles was taunted after storming the streets in makeshift tactical gear as she encouraged others to use a ‘wind blower’ as protection against tear gas.

Other protesters caught the interaction on video and the clip circulated online, with many poking fun at the unidentified rioter’s DIY gear.

The protester was asked on camera why she took to the streets and replied, ‘This is our city and this was Mexico. You can’t kick us out of the land that was ours.’

When asked what the wind blower was for, she replied, ‘That’s for the f***ing tear gas. That’s for the f***ing tear gas to blow it back at those motherf***ers. If you have a f***in blower bring it out. Push them back!’

In vile posts calling for violence against law enforcement, the hotels where federal agents are staying in Los Angeles have been released online, with one agitator saying ‘burn them.’

The exact address of where Border Patrol agents stayed in Ranch Cucamonga, California just outside LA was posted on Instagram by a self-proclaimed ‘leftists’.

‘ICE at Hilton, car filled goggles, tuff ties, and riot shields,’ the video said, even though the cars were clearly marked Border Patrol, which is a sister agency of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.

‘Burn them,’ posted Instagram users @bobbygee57_ in response to the reel showing the agent’s location.

‘Got a match,’ asked @joseflocas.

Protests over ICE raids that erupted in Los Angeles have sprung up across the country, with even more planned for this weekend.

From Seattle and Austin to Chicago and DC, marchers have chanted slogans, carried signs against ICE and snarled traffic through downtown avenues and outside federal offices.

While many have been peaceful, some have resulted in clashes with law enforcement as officers made arrests and used chemical irritants to disperse crowds.

Activists are planning more and even larger demonstrations in the coming days, with ‘No Kings’ events across the country on Saturday to coincide with Trump’s planned military parade through Washington.

The Trump administration said it would continue its program of raids and deportations despite the protests.

‘ICE will continue to enforce the law,’ Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a social media post Tuesday.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a video overnight promoting its raids in Los Angeles – as protesters continue to rally against their efforts.

‘We are on a mission in Los Angeles! Legally. Ethically. Morally,’ ICE posted on social media, along with a promotional video.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is encouraging President Donald Trump to deploy active-duty troops to Los Angeles under the Insurrection Act if the National Guard is not successful in quelling the riots.

‘Violent insurrectionists turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, with anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police, and looting businesses – all while waving foreign flags,’ he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Tuesday.

The 1807 law was evoked in 2020 to end the nationwide riots that broke out after the police killing of George Floyd.

‘Democrats also stood idly by or even celebrated as the Black Lives Matter riots ransacked our cities five years ago,’ he wrote.

Cotton added: ‘If anything, these riots are worse…At least the BLM rioters didn’t wave foreign flags.’

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the violence in Los Angeles is not comparable to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

He argued President Donald Trump, who pardoned and commuted sentences of people charged in the Capitol riot, is not being ‘hypocritical’ by condemning the anti-ICE rioters.

Johnson, during a news conference Tuesday, said: ‘Everybody wants me to relitigate Jan. 6. I’m not going to do that. There’s a very clear distinction between the two.’

He added: ‘The people who broke the law and destroyed property were met with the proper consequences on Jan. 6.

‘We’re trying to be intellectually consistent about this and the same thing needs to happen in LA.’

He also backed Trump’s decision to send the military to Los Angeles as protesters clashed with law enforcement, saying Trump is ‘fully in his authority right now’ to order the National Guard and Marines to the city.

‘President Trump has put his hand on the table and said ‘Not on my watch,’ and we applaud that so we’re standing with him,’ Johnson said.

JUNE 8, 2025: Anti-ICE protesters wave Mexican flags atop a wrecked Waymo car as other vehicles burn beside them.

JANUARY 6, 2021: Trump supporters storm the US Capitol to protest the ratification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying the state’s National Guard to cities across the state to ‘ensure peace and order’ ahead of today’s planned protest in San Antonio.

Abbott reminded Texans that ‘peaceful protest is legal’ but harming others or destroying property is not – and will ‘lead to arrest’.

Anti-ICE protests have spread from LA to other cities nationwide, including Dallas and Austin.

In Texas, where police in Austin used chemical irritants to disperse several hundred demonstrators Monday, Abbott’s office said troops are ‘on standby’ in areas where protests are planned.

President Donald Trump has once again defended his decision to deploy the National Guard and US Marines to LA during the riots.

Trump, in his latest dig at Gov. Gavin Newsom, wrote on his Truth Social platform this morning that the ‘great people of Los Angeles are very lucky that I made the decision to go in and help’.

Newsom earlier accused Trump of drawing a ‘military dragnet’ across the nation’s second-largest city with his escalating use of the National Guard.

Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standing in protection around agents as they carried out arrests. He said it would only heighten tensions and promote civil unrest.

The judge set a hearing for Thursday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom suffered an embarrassing technology gaffe on Tuesday as tried to deliver a ‘Major Address to Californians’.

His speech was meant to be broadcast at 6:30pm local time, but he suffered audio problems.

Newsom’s team quickly pulled the stream, according to online reports, and corrected the issue. Newsom then resumed his speech.

Downtown Los Angeles was placed under a curfew last night, with police making arrests moments after it took effect.

Officers were deployed on horseback and used crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against ICE raids.

Members of the National Guard stood watch behind plastic shields as police made the arrests,

Officials said the curfew was necessary to stop vandalism and theft by agitators looking to cause trouble.