Overview
- At Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, President Trump said major Democratic-led cities are “very dangerous” and asserted the country faces an “internal war.”
- He proposed deploying forces to those cities and told Defense Secretary Hegges they should be used as military “training grounds.”
- Trump said he would “soon enter Chicago” and insulted Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker while vowing to “fix” targeted cities one by one.
- He cited National Guard deployments to Washington and Los Angeles and, according to reporting, issued orders for Guard deployments to Memphis and Portland.
- Hegges gathered hundreds of generals and admirals, emphasized a review of DEI policies, criticized past promotion practices, and was quoted as vowing to remove “fat generals.”