Trump suggests using certain American cities as a military training ground
US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday using US cities as a “military training field”, the last example of the president’s desire to use the power of the nation’s armed forces on the original soil of his choice.
Addressing hundreds of military generals and American admirals advanced for the speech, Trump said that the US military should be used to control what he described as “the invasion of the interior” rather than abroad.
“It seems that those who are led by left -wing radical democrats, which they have done in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles are very dangerous places. And we are going to straighten them one by one,” said Trump in an auditorium in Quantico, Virginia.
Despite an American judge saying that it was illegal to send the National Guard to Los Angeles in June, President Donald Trump said it was his “ “ “ “ `to send troops to Chicago to fight crime.
The American president continued his strategy this week threatening to deploy the National Guard in American cities led by Democratic mayors, including Portland and Chicago, despite the protests of the governors of the States and other elected officials on the ground. However, several Canadian Democratic and Political Political Governors have said that the “training field” remarks were an extraordinary gap of the standard for an American president.
“When you essentially say the words …” We want to start training our soldiers on our own people, to train them so that they can go far “, I do not know if there is a precedent for that out of the mouth of an American president,” said Brad Lavigne, a former campaign director for the NPD, said Power and politics Tuesday. “It’s incredibly horrible.”
The justification of Trump in contradiction with local reality, say the governors
Trump said that it was necessary to send soldiers to cities, blaming the democratic crime and immigration policies. He described Portland as “ravoued by war” and threatened the apocalyptic force in Chicago.
Oregon and Illinois have already continued to block the deployments of the National Guard in their cities, claiming that the representation of the president is not a faithful reflection of reality on the ground.
“Portland … is a magnificent, dynamic and successful city. We are not a war area. I was there all weekend. People were on the go, restaurants, restaurants, football matches, shows. Portland is a beautiful place and we are not under siege,” said Oregon Kotek Governor on Monday in an interview with MSNBC.
“I continue not to understand what is the mission here, but we do not need military intervention in Portland and it is unreasonable. It is absurd.”
President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to respond to immigration demonstrations in California with a law rarely used when the government believes that a rebellion is underway. Andrew Chang breaks down how the framing by Trump of these emergency protests – as well as everything, from fentanyl trade deficits – exists within the framework of a wider scheme to govern by the decree with uncontrolled power.
The National Guard is generally controlled by the State and especially “federalized” when a governor requires aid. The president can deploy the military unilaterally to fight against an insurrection, an invasion or domestic violence, but the definition of these terms is open to interpretation.
Lavigne said the cities that Trump called by name on Tuesday – San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles – are “classics” that the president “loves to withdraw” when they criticize democrats for crime and immigration policies. Others, like Portland, have been distinguished since the demonstrations of Black Lives Matter in the summer of 2020. (That year, Trump referred to the most populous city in Oregon as “Hellhole” and “Mess”.)
The American senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Trump, said that the address on Tuesday was “a breath of fresh air”.
Reactions from other Canadian figures
Speaking on Power and politicsFormer conservative minister of the Lisa Raitt cabinet said the Canadian government is expected to leave most of the debate around the National Guard in the United States, but to take the military’s use of Trump.
“This is their country. This is their situation. This is their problem. Where I have landed now, we have to make sure that we are not naive and that we are not stupid here in terms of preparation whenever (Trump) decides to turn his gaze to the north instead of democratic cities,” she said.
Dan Moulton, a liberal strategist from Ontario, agreed that he found the alarming Trump’s comments, but offered a warning: all the explosive presidential proposals and in the countryside do not materialize, he said.
“Trump talks a lot and says he’s going to do a lot,” said Moulton. “He doesn’t always follow them.”
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