Donald Trump said on Truth that the situation in Los Angeles is “really bad,” calling for “the troops to come in.” And ordering “anyone wearing a mask to be arrested.”

Yesterday, the US president announced his intention to send 2,000 National Guard troops to California to quell the protests, which began Friday in downtown Los Angeles and then spread. Some protesters were filmed with their faces covered by masks while setting fire to a car.

A total of 27 people were arrested in downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters at a news conference, CNN reports. The alleged crimes included throwing a Molotov cocktail at an officer and driving a motorcycle into a police line, McDonnell said. Seventeen of Tuesday's arrests were made by the California Highway Patrol as it cleared protesters from Highway 101, while the LAPD made 10 arrests during brawls downtown, the police chief said.

Some officers were slightly injured and the National Guard fired rubber bullets at the eye and leg level at the protesters . Special forces are also on standby, with 500 marines ready to be deployed.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused Donald Trump of being a dictator . “Inciting and provoking violence, creating mass chaos, militarizing cities, arresting opponents. These are the acts of a dictator, not a president,” the Democrat attacked in a post on X.

Demonstrators protest the White House's immigration policies . The ban on entry into the United States for citizens of 12 countries , issued last week by President Donald Trump, went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Washington time (6:01 a.m. in Italy), according to the text of the presidential executive order. The decision, taken to "protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other threats to national security," the text reads, affects citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.