So, Donald Trump Is A Liar

Gov. Walz, not President Trump, deployed the National Guard during the 2020 unrest https://t.co/dg2E2f381h

— Ammar Moussa (@ammarmufasa) August 7, 2024

Who knew?

Just over a month later on June 19, 2020, former President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter (now known as X), he was actually the one to make the call, claiming he "Forced Democrat run Minnesota to bring in the National Guard & end rioting & looting after seeing the destruction & crime in Minneapolis."

You need that for the timeline.

It was on May 28 that Gov. Tim Walz made the call to activate the Minnesota National Guard, a full mobilization for the first time in Minnesota's 164 years of statehood.

And then:

Later that evening, an e-paper trail of Tweets showed Trump threatened to send in the National Guard, posting his now-infamous line, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." A disclaimer was subsequently added to the post after the social media company deemed the language as a violation of its rules about glorifying violence. 

According to KARE 11's previous reporting, Walz had already put National Guard commanders on notice that they may need to deploy some members on Saturday, May 30 due to planned protests, but after an intense night of rioting and looting on May 27, Walz went ahead and requested the presence of Guard members on May 28, before going on to mobilize all 15,000 members. 

While Trump did post about supporting Walz's decision should he seek military action, it wasn't until June 2020 that Trump started making public claims about calling in troops himself.

Or: three weeks after Gov. Walt mobilized the Michigan Guard.