Trump blasts DC mayor as 'incompetent' over force withdrawal request

U.S. President Donald Trump Friday fiercely lashed out at Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., calling her "grossly incompetent" after she requested Trump to withdraw thousands of National Guard troops deployed to the nation's capital in wake of protests over the killing of George Floyd.

In a series of tweets, Trump said Bowser is "in no way qualified to be running an important city like Washington, D.C. If the great men and women of the National Guard didn't step forward, she would have looked no better than her counterpart Mayor in Minneapolis!"

Trump said Bowser "is now fighting with the National Guard, who saved her from great embarrassment..."

Bowser has officially requested Trump to withdraw all feral law enforcement and military presence from the city on Thursday and called for soldiers to stop patrolling the city.

"We don't think that soldiers should be in the nation's capital patrolling or policing streets," Bowser told reporters on Friday.

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