Trump suggests using ‘dangerous’ US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military

“I told [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but our military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon,” Trump added. “That’s a big city with an incompetent governor.”

The White House has already directed the deployment of National Guard troops across Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., as part of an effort to quell crime in those cities. This week, announced he would send troops to Portland, Ore.

Trump has for weeks threatened to deploy the National Guard to other cities such as Chicago, New York and New Orleans, despite state and local officials pushing back and saying such a move would inflame tensions.

Democratic leaders have likened Trump’s use of the military in American cities to an authoritarian tactic.

“America is under invasion from within. We’re under invasion from within,” Trump said Tuesday. “No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don’t wear uniforms.”

He's planning a takeover of Blue Cities.

The ones where Democrats live.

He can't win our votes, so he will take us over, using the military.

That's what this is really about.

Fucking scary. Encouraging trained warriors to ignore all rules of engagement and just start firing. I fear for anyone with skin darker than a weak tan.

This is what happens when you give a sadistic malignant narcissist with Alzheimers the keys to the most powerful military in the world and say "Do whatever you want with it, big guy."

Dropping all pretense. Dropping the veil, as they say, or some say. Trump is telling them this is a fascist regime and he is the dictator and he's just hoping, for their sake, they will all come along with him on this journey.

Eight months into the Trump Authoritarian Regime, and this is where we are.

Just imagine where we'll be, in 2026, 2027, and 2028....

We will be longing for these innocent days...

He's out of his fucking mind. Congress do your job and invoke the 25th amendment. Do you want to see US civilians killed? That's what it's coming to.

As the Spanish city of Guernica how that plan went. Fascism 2.0.

Ask the Spanish city of Guernica how that plan went. Fascism 2.0.

Many thanks to the 80 million American assholes who voted for his mother fucking moron, knowing full well he was a mother fucking moron and voted for him anyway because that colored woman was "dangerously unstable."

Well, at least trans men aren't committing crimes so they can get sentenced to female prisons and rape women. And at least dogs and cats aren't being eaten by rampaging immigrants in Dayton.

I suspect the Republican Congress will never, ever do jackshit about Trump. Therefore, well, what? I don't know, but it's clear the insanity is completely taking over. He barely wants to pretend to be a legitimate American president under a constitution, anymore.

[quote] Many thanks to the 80 million American assholes who voted for his mother fucking moron, knowing full well he was a mother fucking moron and voted for him anyway because that colored woman was "dangerously unstable."

As is always the case with stupid people who make bad decisions, they will come to regret it later.

Like the saying goes, "they know not what they hath wrought."

What these MAGATS and other idiotic Trump voters have unleashed, is a world of hurt that is coming to this country.

They are not seeing its fulfillment yet, but they will. We all will.

And they will regret it. But it will be much too late.

I know whom to consider as target practice…

We don't have a problem with this.

Sounds good to me

He will use this to cancel the 2026 midterms or to have the military occupying the largest cities which will let him declare martial law at the midterms.

Stop paying taxes. There must be a general strike. According to CNN, today was a normal day, where Trump was just "swerving through topics". Nothing to see here.

[quote] He will use this to cancel the 2026 midterms

Elections cannot be cancelled.

18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest? Are there no men left in England?"

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual, and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty

[quote] Elections cannot be cancelled

So naive.

Oct 18, is the next large, national day of ‘no kings’ protest. I have a bad feeling about this one, but Hell or high water not keeping me away. I’m fucking old, how much time do I have left anyway.

Orange mom, an immigrant, used to collect quarters from the laundromat of the properties that family owned in her dotage.

She did not have to do this, she insisted.

As an elderly person wandering around with cash she was targeted and robbed.

The way these people carried on about the crime, and urban blight, you would never know the perp was a white kid.

It’s definitely anti democratic and Stephen Miller has had more than 4 years to research and imagine these plans. Trumps wants the military placed ( locked & loaded) by Oct 18th- Indivisible’s No Kings movement.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Be nice to my Donnie, and I’ll let you all play with my boobies!!! 😝

How long before they’re going door to door with voter registration records?

People don’t join the military to police other Americans.

Someone needs to do SOMETHING fast.

He's insane, it's SO obvious. Remove him now!

Read an Atlantic, HuffPost or Politico account of his and Hegseth’s expensive shot show today. It’ll make you feel better.

Their audience of general's looked grim.

Remove this moron from the WH now.

Bullets flying in US cities, what could go wrong? Psychotic.

Why are you guys taking him seriously?

Yes- check out David Frum Show -Wendesdays .He hates Trump

We all know trump is not running the country.

He’s not capable. Which he tells us every fucking day. 25TH Amendment is way over due.

If thats the way those two would speak to American generals we have no hope.

[quote]Why are you guys taking him seriously?

Because he's mentally ill and impulsive.

Because military occupation worked so well in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Occupation is inevitable. Trump and Hegseth are killers.

[quote] Yes- check out David Frum Show -Wendesdays .He hates Trump

I remember when I hated David Frum. Those were the days.

At the very least he's consistent in his beliefs and hasn't turned into an ass-licking opportunist.

[quote]Their audience of general's looked grim.

That was encouraging; I figure the generals didn't take too well to being called fat slobs by a fall down drunk, not to mention having their jobs threatened by a pants-shitting draft-dodger.

Hopefully they'd be more inclined to turn their rifles on to one of those two than on American civilians.

Those particular generals did not appear F A T.

Fit-fat, r45?