President Donald Trump informed hundreds of senior military leaders on Tuesday that he told Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that the military should use “dangerous cities” in the United States as “training grounds for our military.”
The president and secretary have deployed National Guard forces to quell civil unrest in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and have approved missions to Portland, Oregon and Memphis, Tennessee, with several other cities discussed as possible options.
Trump addressed the hundreds of senior military leaders who traveled to Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday following an order from the secretary, who addressed the crowd ahead of the president.
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“Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone, and I get a call from the liberal governor, ‘Sir please don’t come in, we
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