President Donald Trump launched a scathing critique on Truth Social, accusing a range of high‑profile corporations—including Apple, Google, T‑Mobile, Toyota and Walmart—of supporting a left‑leaning think‑tank that produced a report he said undermined his crime‑control policies.
The outburst followed a C‑SPAN interview with Chandler Hall of the Center for American Progress (CAP). Hall’s new report concluded that the National Guard’s deployment in Washington, D.C. and other cities, a program Trump had championed, had cost $1.7 billion and had no measurable impact on crime.
In response, Trump listed a long roster of alleged donors and foreign supporters, naming entities such as the Gates Foundation, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T‑Mobile, NBC Universal, the Embassy of Japan, the Korea Foundation, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates. He also threatened a lawsuit, claiming the report was a “radical left scam” and that the organizations involved were “bad for our country.”
CAP, founded in 2003 by John Podesta, noted that it has received funding from many of the sources Trump cited but does not publish a donor list, citing privacy concerns. Hall acknowledged that violent crime and homicides in D.C. had fallen, but argued that the trend pre‑dated the National Guard deployment and that lawlessness remained a problem. Trump’s comments were amplified on Fox News, where his border czar, Tom Homan, defended the administration’s actions and called for similar federal surges in other cities.
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