Trump eyes National Guard deployment in Chicago — but is it constitutional?



President Trump has been intervening in crime-ridden cities across the country — and now may be looking to deploy the National Guard to Chicago.

But does he have the authority to do so?

“We have kind of three different ways this is playing out so far. You have, initially, the Los Angeles situation where he was intervening with some National Guard. There’s been a legal ruling on that. They said he’s not allowed to do that anymore. I’m sure that will go to the Supreme Court,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains on “Stu Does America.”

“You have the D.C. situation, which, of course, there’s legal fights on that, I’m sure, as well, but it has a much more clear path to control over that. It’s a federal district,” he continues.


“And then, finally, you have a potential of this expanding to many more cities like Chicago, Memphis, who knows where else,” he adds.

The Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, is not pleased.

“The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator,” Pritzker wrote in a post on X, in response to a screenshot of a Truth Social post from President Trump.

The Truth Social post reads, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” with an image of Trump crouching in front of the city in flames. Text on the image reads “Chipocalypse Now.”

“I’m not a huge fan,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray admits. “I’m not a fan of it at all.”

Gray appreciated the president initially mentioning that he was going to ask the governor of Illinois to send the National Guard, which he says “would be the right way to do it.”

“But he proceeded to say, ‘But I’m going to do it either way. I’m going to do it anyway, whether he agrees to it or not,’” Gray adds. “That’s just not the right way to do it. So I’m not a huge, huge fan of doing things in an unconstitutional way.”

However, Gray sees D.C. slightly differently.

“D.C.’s a little bit different animal because it’s not a state, and so they can federalize there. So I didn’t initially have a huge problem with that,” he says. “I didn’t think it was going to be a national, every city kind of thing.”

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Van Jones admits the woke era has gone too far



Van Jones is finally saying what conservatives have argued for years: The woke era has gone too far.

“This is not gonna make me popular, but I’m not mad, because it got ridiculous. I’m an employer, and at a certain point, your Slack channel just turns into Vietnam every other day because something happened that had nothing to do with the workplace,” Jones said on CNN.

“You got to bring in all kinds of counselors and, like, this is not camp, guys. We’re trying to make money. So I enjoyed the moment for a while where we were having our reckonings about everything. We done wrecked, okay? Reckoning direct. We can move on,” he added, laughing.

“I think he’s sort of admitting this because Van Jones is pretty perceptive, and so I think he’s recognizing that … they’ve overplayed their hands, the woke folks, right? Like it’s just people are sick of it, as evidenced by Donald Trump waltzing into the White House for a second time,” Dan Andros of the “Quick Start Podcast” tells BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America.”


“This guy they rebranded as Hitler for four years. And they’re like, ‘Well, how did Hitler get in there?’ It’s like, I don’t know. Maybe because like Van said, you turned your job that you have to show up to every day, for millions of people, into this place where now they’ve got to tiptoe around every microaggression imaginable and it’s a living nightmare, and they voted against it overwhelmingly,” Andros explains.

“And they seem to continue to be doing it,” Stu agrees.

“If you say, ‘Donald Trump is Hitler,’ right, and then Hitler gets elected, you have a path to go. Your two choices are, number one, I was wrong. He’s not Hitler, and I was overexaggerating what my belief was in this guy. He’s actually not that bad. I just have a disagreement with him,” he explains.

"Or two, he is Hitler, and I live in Nazi Germany because the people around me all want Hitler.”

“I think maybe to some extent, Van Jones is choosing this way to say, ‘Look, maybe this was overexaggerated,’ where I think a lot of the people on the left, certainly on the CNN panel every single night, are saying, ‘Look, we’re just in Nazi Germany,’” he continues.

“And that is going to send them down all sorts of really bad roads for their political futures,” he adds.

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Gallup releases poll on national alcohol consumption, and it’s SHOCKING



A recent Gallup poll has revealed that alcohol consumption in the United States has reached a record low in nearly a century, with only 54% of the country reporting that they drink.

The data is consistent with other research, including Monitoring the Future’s national substance abuse poll that found a drastically reduced interest in alcohol among students from 1975 to 2025.

The subcategories of the Gallup poll revealed several bits of interesting information:

  • Women were more likely to quit drinking than men, with an 11% drop in drinking rates since 2023, compared to a 5% drop in men.
  • White adults were more likely to quit drinking than adults of color, with an 11% drop in drinking rates since 2023, compared to a 2% drop in people of color.
  • From 2023 to 2025, the largest declines in drinking rates were among people earning less than $40,000 per year, with a 14% drop, and those earning $100,000 or more per year, with a 13% drop. In contrast, drinking rates among those earning between $40,000 and $99,999 fell by only 4%
  • Younger generations were more likely to quit drinking than older generations, with a 9% drop in adults ages 18-34 and a 10% drop in adults ages 35-54, compared to a 5% drop in adults 55 and older.
  • From 2023 to 2025, Republicans had a 19% drop in drinking rates, compared to a 6% drop among Independents and a 3% drop among Democrats.

It’s this latter statistic that Stu Burguiere, BlazeTV host of “Stu Does America,” is most fascinated by.

His theory is that conservatives’ massive drop in drinking rates has a lot to do with the pressure to take the experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The anti-vaccine resistance largely fueled MAHA and ignited a movement of distrust in health institutions. Couple that with the new studies coming out that challenge the outdated advice that moderate drinking is safe, maybe even healthy, and perhaps that’s why Republicans are ditching the bottle in droves.

Stu’s theory seems to be consistent with the subcategory of the Gallup poll that assessed people’s perception of alcohol’s impact on health. All three categories showed a rising trend in the percentage of people who believe alcohol is harmful to health. From 2001 to 2025, people who said alcohol makes no difference on health decreased from 46% to a record low of 37%; people who said alcohol is good for health decreased from 22% to a record low of 6%; and people who said alcohol is bad for health increased from 27% to a record high of 53%.

It was also found that young people ages 18-34 were more likely to view alcohol negatively, with 66% reporting it’s bad for health, compared to 50% of adults ages 35-54 and 48% of adults ages 55 and up.

The poll also found that drinkers are consuming less alcohol. The report found that the average number of drinks per week has fallen to 2.8 — the lowest rate since 1996.

Stu is encouraged by these statistics. Not only is this good news for public health, it’s also good news for the culture when it comes to things like graduation rates, unwanted pregnancies, domestic violence, and reduced DUIs and accidents.

“The fact that kids and young adults are choosing to drink less, having fewer drinks, is a real positive thing,” he says.

To hear more about the Gallup poll’s findings and more of Stu’s analysis, watch the episode above.

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Media melts down as DC crime crackdown proves WILD success



For the first time in years, Washington, D.C., just went nine days without a single murder— and of course, the media is acting like it’s a bad thing.

The drop in crime comes after more than 2,200 Guard troops were deployed in Washington, who were instructed not to use their weapons unless facing bodily harm themselves.

“The calming words from the people in charge saying, ‘We’re not really going to use these unless there’s a real emergency,’ that didn’t calm down the media, and they framed it a certain way, right?” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments on “Stu Does America.”

“Like it’s this evil sort of crackdown on the city. It’s always kind of tilted that way,” he continues, noting that many recent articles do exactly that.


“Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment,” the AP headline reads. “Some National Guard troops in D.C. now armed as Trump takeover continues,” another headline from Fox 5 reads.

“Now, the other headline you should probably know about all of this, is this one,” Burguiere says. “‘Incredible results’: Trump thanks National Guard, police for patrolling D.C.”

JD Vance has also been quite vocal about how well the deployment has been working, despite the liberal media refusing to report on it.

“To echo something the president said about crime in Washington, D.C., this is the national capital of the greatest nation in the world, and we had murder rates just a few weeks ago that rivaled some of the worst third world cities anywhere, even in very, very poor regions of the world,” Vance said on August 22.

“Why did we accept that? Why do we allow it to happen? We allowed it to happen because we had broken leadership in Washington, D.C., and unfortunately, sitting behind the Resolute desk, what we have shown in just under two weeks of taking law enforcement seriously is that the American people can have their street back if their leadership is willing to put in the time and the resources,” he continued.

“Mr. President, you’ve shown in Washington, D.C., that we can have safe streets again," he added, praising Trump. "We’ve just got to have the political willpower to focus on the bad guys and to give the American people back their communities."

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Newsom 2.0: Will EMBARRASSING new fake Trump persona boost the California governor?



California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom has been in a constant state of political evolution, rolling out new versions of himself like iPhone updates — and is currently debuting the “social media troll” version.

“He’s got a new version of himself out. A new release, in theaters now,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments, pointing out Newsom’s new X account called Governor Newsom Press Office.

“His account that I guess is the official account for the press office of Newsom, but really it’s just turned into, like, a kind of new trolling thing,” Stu says.


“We started out with, like, you know, Democrat rising star Gavin Newsom. Then we went to playboy Gavin Newsom, who was the guy who actually slept with his best friend’s wife. So that’s a good character trait. Then, two, we had the 'I’m against Donald Trump.' The tough guy, the anti-Trump guy,” Stu continues, explaining Gavin’s metamorphosis.

“DEI master Gavin Newsom,” “COVID dictator Gavin Newsom,” “party-line man Gavin Newsom,” “anti-DEI centrist Gavin Newsom,” and “free-speech podcaster in the manosphere Gavin Newsom” are other identities he appears to have assumed.

His latest identity is “social media troll Gavin Newsom,” which many on the left and right have likened to President Trump’s social media habits — though while the left believes he’s been successful, the right isn’t interested.

“He’s out there tweeting all the time about this, trying to get attention for himself,” Stu says.

“And it is falling flat. By the way, you know, a lot of this is just to get attention to his new tough-guy redistricting plan,” he explains, noting that only 36% of his voters in California support the plan.

“I get that he’s trying to parody Trump. He’s not obviously, you know, witty or good at it, but like, you think you’d at least understand the jokes,” Stu says, pointing out an AI image Newsom posted on X of Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, and Tucker Carlson praying.

“I obviously get the idea that sometimes Trump supporters post that type of stuff about Trump. Not 100% sure why those people are chosen or what it has to do with anything,” Stu says.

“But, you know, again, the only thing that Gavin Newsom cares about is his own profile, his own, you know, bank account, his own pond of attention that he’s always trying to dip his toes into. That’s all that matters to him,” he continues, adding, “So for right now, it’s working.”

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Phones down, prayers up: Texas schools kick off 2025–2026 with 4 BOLD new policies



School is back in session in Texas, and this year, things look a little different. The Lone Star State has made several “aggressive” amendments to its educational policies going into the 2025-2026 school year.

“Pretty jaw dropping, frankly, when you look at the changes,” says Stu Burguiere, BlazeTV host of “Stu Does America.”

In this episode, Stu dives into four new Texas education laws that are certain to radically impact the school year.

Personal electronic devices: OUT

The use of personal electronic devices, including cell phones, smartwatches, tablets, and similar gadgets, during the school day has been banned statewide in all public K–12 schools.

“I am 100% behind this effort. I think it's crazy that there's another thought or option, frankly, when it comes to this. We all know how distracting phones are to adults, let alone kids, who are trying to get through a school day,” says Stu.

But it’s not just distraction from school work that House Bill 1481 will target. Stu, citing Jonathan Haidt’s must-read book “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” reminds that smartphones, and the social media it gives kids access to, is directly linked to increased rates of anxiety and depression.

“It's not gonna solve every problem at school, right? There's problems at school that existed long before cell phones were there. I do think it's going to make a major difference for a lot of people,” says Stu.

DEI and LGBTQ+ madness: OUT

Senate Bill 12 banned DEI programs in K–12 public schools, prohibiting schools from having DEI offices, trainings, or programs that consider or focus on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or similar characteristics. It also restricts schools from incorporating DEI into hiring decisions, policies, or classroom instruction, and forbids DEI-based student clubs unless parentally consented.

“There's a lot of things to do at school, lot of things to learn about,” says Stu.

“You don't need to add in the fact that skin color is actually the most important thing in the world and actually you should hate everybody who's white and whatever else they're teaching in these schools.”

Ten Commandments: IN

Senate Bill 10 mandates that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public elementary and secondary school classrooms. The poster must be durable or framed and at least 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall, featuring the specific version of the Ten Commandments outlined in the legislation.

“This goes back to the founding of the country. ... Never was there a design by our founders to say religion can never be intertwined with any state institution. That's not the way it worked,” says Stu, reminding people that during America’s founding, the Continental Congress regularly began its sessions with prayer.

“[Christianity] is something that was — is — very central to the founding of this country.”

Prayer in school: IN

Senate Bill 11 allows Texas school districts to adopt policies permitting a daily period for students and staff to pray or read religious texts, such as the Bible. Participation requires written consent from students or their parents, which can be revoked at any time. The law stipulates that prayer periods cannot replace instructional time and prohibits using loudspeakers, intercoms, or any official school-wide announcement system to broadcast prayers or other religious activities.

Stu warns that lefties will almost certainly spread the narrative that Texas is “forcing kids to pray,” but the truth is this new law merely “allows them to pray.”

To hear more changes coming to Texas schools, watch the episode above.

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Trump’s DC crime crackdown sparks Democrats’ denial



The crime crisis in Washington, D.C., has sparked a historic federal takeover of the police by President Donald Trump — which has been answered with misinformation by frantic Democrats.

Democrats deny there’s a problem with crime in our nation’s capital, claiming that crime is down from its 2023 highs.

“Wow, what an accomplishment,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere mocks. “You took the worst year on record, and you are slightly down from that. Isn’t that wonderful?”

Democrat lawmakers and legacy media outlets responded to Trump’s complaint about violent crime by reporting that it decreased by 35% in 2024, citing local police data. However, the D.C. police only includes homicide, sex abuse crimes, assault with a dangerous weapon, and robbery in its overall violent crime statistics.


Aggravated assault and felony assault without the use of weapons are left out, despite the fact that according to D.C. law, they are “violent offenses causing bodily injury," and according to the FBI, aggravated assaults are increasing.

And FBI data does not show violent offenses decreasing by 35% in 2024, but only by 10%.

FBI data also shows that homicides remain higher than pre-pandemic levels in the years since 2020, with the exception of 2021 — a year where apparently D.C. submitted incomplete data.

“So, basically these numbers mean nothing,” Stu says.

Not only are the stats telling a different story than the Democrat’s headlines, but a D.C. police commander is also on leave for allegedly falsifying that specific data. The Metropolitan Police Department suspended Michael Pulliam for allegedly manipulating crime numbers in his report.

“That’s not great,” Stu says. “I doubt he was trying to make them higher.”

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63% view Democrats negatively: 30-year record low



Unsurprisingly, the Democrat Party hasn’t been this unpopular in over 30 years.

A poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research revealed that Americans aren’t too happy with Democrats, with 63% of voters holding negative views of Democrats.

And within the Democrat Party, 35% attributed negative traits to their fellow party members, like “weak,” “ineffective,” and “generally bad.”

“Only 23% have positive attributes. Now, you might say everyone hates their own party, yeah, but not really the case as much with the Republicans. Republicans have positive attributes at 41% and negative at 19%. What they say about their party are ‘generally good,’ ‘conservative,’ ‘pro-America,’ ‘common sense,’” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains on “Stu Does America.”


“There are some negatives as well. ‘Generally bad’ and ‘greedy’ have come up in the text, but there’s not that much. Basically, Democrats don’t really like their party right now,” he continues, asking, “Why is that?”

Burguiere then pulls up a graph from Gallup, which shows Democrat voters becoming far more liberal in the past decade.

“They’ve gone from about 48% very liberal to 55%. Moderates stayed about the same, but very conservative or conservative Democrats have dropped from the mid-teens down to below 10%, to 9% of voters,” he explains.

The issues that they've chosen as very important have increasingly been issues like immigration and Palestinian statehood, which Stu believes is telling.

“So things are really bad. Democrats are terrible,” he says.

“That’s true, that’s true, and it’s important to understand that, because it provides a real opportunity for Republicans to do real good.”

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Marriage makes a comeback as divorce rates PLUMMET



The topic of marriage is a contentious one, as the stat that 50% of marriages end in divorce is commonly repeated, leaving those looking to pursue one of life’s greatest adventures with a question mark seared into their minds.

However, times are changing, and divorce rates are going down.

“The good news about all of this is that that stat is ancient and it doesn’t really apply to society any more. This is a really good thing,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere says, before pulling up a chart that shows that divorce rates have steadily gone down since their peak in the 1970s.

“The only decade where marriages have stayed together at a better rate than the 2010s is the 1950s,” Stu says.

“Consider the culture around us and all the negatives that we talk about on a day-to-day basis. That’s a really positive development. And there are some of those in our society that we shouldn’t just look past,” he adds.


Married-parent families also steadily dropped since the 1970s, but the trend reversed in 2012, going from 64% to 66%.

“Now, that’s just a slight uptick. It’s not a massive one, but the fact that the falling has stopped is really positive. And a little bit of an upturn makes you think, ‘Hey, maybe there’s something positive going on there as well,’” Stu says.

“When you have a kid who was raised in a two-parent family instead of a one-parent family, they’re much less likely to commit crimes. They’re much more likely to finish high school. They’re much more likely to get through college. They’re much more likely to hold down a job. They’re much more likely to get married,” he continues.

“All these outcomes wind up being positive for society,” he adds.

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NFL headquarters shooting exposes liberal delusion



Shane Tamura, 27, was seen getting out of a black BMW with an M4 rifle moments before he allegedly stormed the NFL headquarters in New York City and killed one NYPD cop and three civilians.

Tamura then allegedly turned the gun on himself, leaving behind a suicide note revealing that he targeted the NFL headquarters because he blamed the league for a football-related brain injury — despite not having played football since high school.

“Please study brain for CTE. I’m sorry. The league knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits. They failed us,” the note read.

“What’s the left-wing response to this?” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere asks. “Because I know they’re going to supposedly get mad about football; they’re going to get mad about guns, right? But I mean, a police officer died.”


Burguiere points out that the left favors Zohran Mamdani for NYC’s next mayor, who, like many leftists, is in favor of defunding the police. Not only that, but Mamdani’s top aide, Julian Gerson, lauded the alleged murderer of the United Healthcare CEO, Luigi Mangione.

“Mangione is adored not only because he dared to target a leader of one of the most vile, self-enriching industries darkening our society today, but because he dared to defy the stasis of nihilistic rejection,” Gerson wrote in a social media post last December.

“The question is not whether he was right or wrong,” he continued. “It’s how many others he has shaken loose.”

But the left’s love for chaos isn’t all that Burguiere finds alarming as violence continues to ravage the streets of New York.

In a segment on CNN, reporter Erin Burnett called Tamura “possibly white.”

“Possibly white? In theory, any person could be ‘possibly white’ before you’ve seen them,” Burguiere says. “We did have images, though, of the guy. Definitely not white.”

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