WASHINGTON

California's governor on Tuesday publicly denied US President Donald Trump's claims that they spoke "a day ago" about the recent protests in Los Angeles.

"There was no call. Not even a voicemail," Gavin Newsom said on X.

"Americans should be alarmed that a President deploying Marines onto our streets doesn’t even know who he’s talking to," he added.

His remarks came right after Trump said, when asked by a reporter about his most recent conversation with Newsom: "A day ago. Called him up to tell him, got to do a better job, he's doing a bad job. Causing a lot of death and potential death."

Trump decided to deploy the National Guard over the week, defying objections from Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who have warned that the action only serves to inflame tensions caused by the president's mass deportation raids. Roughly 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 US Marines have been deployed under Trump's orders.

The president said the National Guard would remain in Los Angeles "until there's no danger," but later claimed to have "stopped the violence in LA."

Protests erupted on Friday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided local businesses and detained hundreds of people suspected of living in the US illegally. The Trump administration has continued to carry out the raids in defiance of the community's opposition.

Critics of the raids say ICE is going after law-abiding undocumented migrants, a vital part of the community and the local economy, rather than the criminals that Trump pledged to deport while campaigning last year to return to the White House.