fact:

for the past 4 years, whenever Derp State cannot account for the whereabouts of GEOTUS for more than about 24 hours, they lose their minds. and when this happens, every time, they begin lying and slandering the Prez and making up quotes and shit, to try to flush him out of hiding.

theory:

GEOTUS called up the NG, but the Derp State is pretending they did it. Why? To try to spin this as an evil scary MAGA insurrection on one side (get leftys and progs to rage in the streets with the military comes in)... and as an armed leftist takeover on the other (get MAGA to rage in the streets when the military comes in).

And for what reason would they do that? Because if they can get people on the left AND the right to be completely afraid of the 20th, maybe they can get them to go do the ultraviolence they have planned for the 17th.

It is literally now or never for them. Their only hope of escaping to their bug-out homes in NZ, is if they can get ALL sides of the civilian population to deeply distrust the military, and make the citizens turn on them as they try to conduct The Storm. They are trying to summon their meat-puppet army by floating the idea that if you don't do something before the 20th, your family will be loaded into a boxcar immediately. They are most likely doing the same thing to the left ("MAGA is about to do a coup! you leftys will all be in boxcars!").

The reality is GEOTUS called in all the military to keep people calm while The Storm happens and keep them from interfering with the op. But right now he is not making his whereabouts public. And the left KNOWS this gives them free license to lie their pants off about anything they want because GEOTUS will not risk exposure to refute the lies.