President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the the White House, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Washington. Explaining his decision to deploy National Guard troops in California without Governor Gavin Newsom’s support, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he’s fine with defying protocol.“You have to remember, I’ve been here before and I went right by every rule. And I waited for governors to say, ‘Send in the National Guard.’ They wouldn’t do it,” Trump said from the Oval Office as protests mount against his mass deportation campaign in Los Angeles.“I said to myself, if that stuff happens again, we’ve got to make faster decisions, because they don’t want to do it,” he said of his thoughts during past mass protest events.Trump’s remarks come a day after California sued Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth for federalising and deploying the California National Guard to help crush the protests, which have gone on for days in the Los Angeles area and are now spreading nationwide.