Why doesn't Trump just let the cities burn?

As I write these words, familiar places including the heart of Manhattan, and near me St. Louis and East Saint Louis, Los Angeles, and at least a dozen other cities, are ablaze and being destroyed with arson and explosives.

As soon as the Police take the basic steps to get one situation under control, they move to another area and once they are gone, the mayhem resumes.

These are mostly Democrat-controlled cities, with mayors and governors sympathetic to their causes Celebrities are being called to bounce the perpetrators out of jail where they go back to their rioting, looting, and explosives.

When Trump has announced that if the local authorities do not call the National Guard or support their law enforcement, that he would call on the military to reinforce local law enforcement, in order to protect the lives and livelihood of the citizens, there is massive protest and demonizing the President as if he has sent the military against the American people (another discussion tonight cites an article in Vox where Trump is said to be the cause of this mayhem, along with Covid, and every other problem in America.

My question is, why doesen’t Trump just let them fight it out and let Antifa have its way? Rather than call for military intervention, why not just let these arsonists, anarchists, and domestic terrorists, just burn it all down? Why put our military in harm’s way when there is so much opposition ?