I’ll take a wild guess and say Obama found out about it in the press.

WASHINGTON — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon called the National Guard to Ferguson late Sunday without letting the White House know first.

“Folks didn’t know,” an administration official told BuzzFeed Monday. “The White House did not know they were sending it in.”

President Obama is back at the White House today on a pre-scheduled break from his August vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.