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Trump sleepwalks through unhinged rant to military leaders




On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he wants to use U.S. cities as
training grounds for the military, a dangerous and disgraceful incitement of
violence against civilians that further slides the country into an
authoritarian hell hole.

The 79-year-old commander in chief made the comments in a low-energy,
rambling speech that lasted over an hour to military generals who had been
flown in from across the world to Quantico. First they were lectured about
ethics and war crimes by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth before being told by
Trump that they will continue to be used to police civilians across the country.

"I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training
grounds for our military, National Guard, but military," Trump said, referring
to Hegseth. "Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with
an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."




 



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Trump has been threatening to send the National Guard to Chicago, as he has
done with Washington, , and Portland, Oregon—falsely describing the cities as
war zones. Troops stationed in those cities have basically served as janitors
and landscapers, picking up trash and spreading mulch because federal law
prohibits them from serving as local law enforcement officers.

But Trump said he is going to continue to send the military into U.S. cities,
saying that it’s necessary because America is "under invasion from within."

“San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles … We'll straighten them out
one-by-one,” Trump said. “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.”

He went on to lament that he couldn't kill the supposed invaders—whoever they
may be—because it's hard to identify them.

"They don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can
take them out," Trump said, suggesting he's just fine with the military
carrying out extrajudicial killings of civilians, as he’s done with military
strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela.




 



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While he made his vile threats against civilians, Trump was super low energy,
likely because the generals gathered didn't loudly applaud for him like the
cultists at his rallies do.

"I never walked into a room so silent before," Trump said. "If you want to
applaud, you applaud. You can do anything you want. If you don't like what I'm
saying, you can leave the room. There goes your rank and there goes your
future."

From there, a low-energy Trump rambled on about God knows what, including some
goobledygook about war, the quality of the paper he signs, the fact that he
probably won't be given the Nobel Prize, and that you cannot use the "n" word.
Yes, seriously.

"We can't let people throw around that word. I call it the N word," Trump
said, seemingly referring to the word nuclear. "There are two N words and you
can't use either of them."

Democrats, such as a particular “incompetent governor” Trump called out,
slammed Trump’s speech as fascist rhetoric.

“To Donald Trump: Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt
American cities. Stop calling your political opponents ‘enemies’ of the US.
Stop attacking the 1st Amendment. Our troops and our nation deserve better than
you acting as a petty tyrant,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote in a post on X
after Trump’s speech.



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