Republican ‘Architect’ Karl Rove said that Trump will be on the losing side unless things “heat up” enough to justify his forceful deployment of National Guard troops.

Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has weighed in on Donald Trump’s fixation with deploying the National Guard across the country—and he doesn’t have a sunny outlook. Rove, who was dubbed “The Architect” by George W. Bush, appeared on the Journal Editorial Report Saturday. The Wall Street Journal columnist and Fox contributor said that the president was playing with fire with his current strategy. Alongside forecasting tanking popularity for Trump, the GOP multi-hyphenate also admitted that he was struggling to see evidence that certain cities were as “war-torn” as Trump describes.