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Trump suggests using US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military
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Trump suggests using US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: September 30, 2025 10:06 pm
Jimmie Dempsey Published September 30, 2025
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President Donald Trump told a gathering of military leaders Tuesday they should use American cities as “training grounds” to fight against what he called a “war from within.”

“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military,” Trump told an audience filled with top generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.

He told the commanders that defending the homeland was the military’s “most important priority” and suggested the leaders in attendance could be tasked with assisting federal law enforcement interventions against an “invasion from within” Democratic-led cities, such as Chicago and New York City.

On Tuesday, he suggested that Afghanistan — where more than 2,400 American troops and hundreds of Afghan troops and civilians were killed in a brutal, two-decades-long war — was safer than the U.S. capital prior to the federal government’s intervention in August.

“Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America, and to a large extent beyond, and beyond that. You go to Afghanistan, they didn’t have anything like that,” Trump told the military leaders.

The remarks came one day after the president and First Lady Melania Trump hosted a reception for 50 Gold Star families at the White House. The gathering included military families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan.

The nation’s capital has sued the Trump administration for deploying the National Guard within the city’s boundaries, with the D.C. attorney general’s office alleging that the administration’s efforts are an “involuntary military occupation.”

Top U.S. military commanders listen as President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Virginia. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Democratic leaders in Oregon have challenged the Oregon Guard’s deployment orders in court, filing a suit against Trump, Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday that accuses the administration of exceeding its executive powers and basing its actions on a “wildly hyperbolic pretext.”

“The President says Portland is a ‘War ravaged’ city ‘under siege’ from ‘domestic terrorists.’ Defendants have thus infringed on Oregon’s sovereign power to manage its own law enforcement activity and National Guard resource,” Oregon officials said in the lawsuit.

According to CNN, Portland Police Bureau logs show more than 100 calls made to the address of the city’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement building this year for reasons including “disorder,” “unwanted person” and shots fired.

One riot was reported outside the ICE building, when the national “No Kings” rally in June turned violent in the area, prompting three arrests.

Some current and former defense officials have raised concerns to Military Times that the deployments appear authoritarian and threaten to drive a wedge between the military and American citizens.

“It will no longer be that our military is part of us. It’ll be, ‘It’s those guys in uniform, those armed thugs,’” Retired Maj. Gen. Randy Manner, who served as vice chief of the National Guard Bureau, told Military Times earlier this month.

Crime has continued to decline since more than 2,200 Guard members deployed to Washington. The Guard members have also focused on “beautification” efforts that have spruced up public park areas that officials say have been neglected amid National Park Service manpower shortages following cuts, buyouts and contract freezes initiated earlier this year by the Department of Government Efficiency.

Guard members have “cleared 1,133 bags of refuse, spread 1,045 cubic yards of mulch, removed five truckloads of plant waste, cleared 7.9 miles of roadway, painted 270 feet of fencing, 400 trees pruned, and packaged 6,030 pounds of food,” according to the latest data provided Monday by the joint task force in charge of the D.C. deployment.

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