The Trump administration is reassigning some of the National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles as part of an authoritarian publicity stunt so they can instead address a real crisis — rather than the fake crisis of unrest that Trump has tried to fabricate.

The military commander of the National Guard troops deployed to respond to immigration protests in the Los Angeles area recently asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to return 200 troops to California's command,

Northern Command head Gen. Gregory Guillot submitted a request to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that 200 of the troops be reassigned back to Joint Task Force Rattlesnake, the California National Guard’s wildfire unit.