"Our inner cities, which we'll be talking about because it's a big part of war now, a big part of war ... San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles We're going to straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It's a war too. It's a war from within. America is under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms."
"We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our militarynational guard, but militarybecause we're going into Chicago very soon, that's a big city with an incompetent governor, Trump said, attacking Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker. Training grounds? American cities are training grounds? Chicago is Parris Island? Los Angeles as a live-fire exercise? All that ridicule about "war-ravaged" Portland must've really stung."
Military leaders were summoned to Quantico. The president described American inner cities as training grounds and identified San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles as targets for intervention. He characterized urban unrest as a war from within and likened domestic opponents to a foreign enemy who do not wear uniforms. The remarks included campaign attacks on political rivals and criticism of state governors. Uniformed officers in attendance remained largely stonefaced. The secretary adopted aggressive, militaristic gestures during the event. Critics warned that framing civilian populations as combatants risks eroding civil-military norms and normalizing domestic militarization.
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