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BumRushDaShow

(163,387 posts) Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:01 PM Sep 30

Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war

Source: Raw Story

September 30, 2025 11:20AM ET

President Donald Trump revealed that he had told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use inner cities as "training grounds" for war.

In an unprecedented speech to top military brass on Tuesday, Trump said that American inner cities were "a big part of war now."

"It seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one," the president asserted. "And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."

"And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago very soon," he added. "You gotta do what you gotta do because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-hegseth-training-grounds/

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Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 30 OP

Let's not kid ourselves, Trump is calling for the elimination of POC when he uses code words like "inner cities" sop Sep 30 #1

Would that mean NO MORE major sports... ProudMNDemocrat Oct 1 #20

Sure freakin' sounds like it. Horrific!!! electric_blue68 Oct 1 #22

Hello media? Wake the F up!! MuchBetterThanThis Sep 30 #2

The billionaires have taken over all media now. Initech Sep 30 #7

What is an "inner city?" Prairie Gates Sep 30 #3

Any thing that Trump says it is. riversedge Sep 30 #6

Obviously, any place that's majority PoC... regnaD kciN Sep 30 #8

Non white JI7 Sep 30 #11

It's a term from the 60s and 70s to refer to ghettos like Harlem, south Bronx, Compton, parts of DC. Etc. Blues Heron Sep 30 #17

The WHITE House Jack Valentino Oct 1 #23

If anyone needed more proof that he's insane, there it is. Dave Bowman Sep 30 #4

Sounds about white, Mr. trump Torchlight Sep 30 #5

He's certainly succeeding on targeting Black people economically progree Sep 30 #15

This general at that speech is all of us: SunSeeker Sep 30 #9

They'll worship yesss Witnessof Trump Sep 30 #10

Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Oct 1 #21

MaddowBlog-Trump pitches generals and admirals on using U.S. cities as military 'training grounds' LetMyPeopleVote Sep 30 #12

traitor wants our cities in ruin Marthe48 Sep 30 #13

He's talking about ethnic cleansing. LudwigPastorius Sep 30 #14

Use Mar-a-Lago milestogo Sep 30 #16

When does the body count begin? twodogsbarking Sep 30 #18

These officers are getting a special medal for yesterday LetMyPeopleVote Oct 1 #19

Martial Law is coming and Star Chamber 'trials' will follow gohuskies Oct 1 #24

sop

(16,892 posts)

1. Let's not kid ourselves, Trump is calling for the elimination of POC when he uses code words like "inner cities"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:09 PM

Sep 30

and "training grounds" for war. This is part of Trump's Final Solution. It's what his bloodthirsty MAGA hordes want.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,391 posts)

20. Would that mean NO MORE major sports...

Reply to sop (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 01:34 PM

Oct 1

Like NFL Football
NCAA Football
the NBA and NCAA Basketball
Olympic trials
Major League Baseball

that is in many areas, dominated by elite African-American athletes?

What a shame.

electric_blue68

(24,945 posts)

22. Sure freakin' sounds like it. Horrific!!!

Reply to sop (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 05:56 PM

Oct 1

His racist father sure "helped" raise a racist monster.

MuchBetterThanThis

(78 posts)

2. Hello media? Wake the F up!!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:11 PM

Sep 30

The media is as complicit as the electorate…
It’s right there in our faces.. This is RACIALLY motivated.. Stop ignoring the 500 lb gorilla👊🏽

Initech

(106,915 posts)

7. The billionaires have taken over all media now.

Reply to MuchBetterThanThis (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:54 PM

Sep 30

They support this shit so they can make more billions.

Prairie Gates

(6,834 posts)

3. What is an "inner city?"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:11 PM

Sep 30

riversedge

(78,840 posts)

6. Any thing that Trump says it is.

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:28 PM

Sep 30

regnaD kciN

(27,364 posts)

8. Obviously, any place that's majority PoC...

Reply to riversedge (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:10 PM

Sep 30

JI7

(92,978 posts)

11. Non white

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:34 PM

Sep 30

Blues Heron

(8,054 posts)

17. It's a term from the 60s and 70s to refer to ghettos like Harlem, south Bronx, Compton, parts of DC. Etc.

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:53 PM

Sep 30

Trump is stuck in the 70s he doesn’t know most of these areas have been completely gentrified. Even though he helped the gentrifying in Harlem in the 80s. He has no clue, his grey matter is well ossified.

Jack Valentino

(4,040 posts)

23. The WHITE House

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 08:29 PM

Oct 1

Dave Bowman

(6,262 posts)

4. If anyone needed more proof that he's insane, there it is.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:14 PM

Sep 30

Torchlight

(6,146 posts)

5. Sounds about white, Mr. trump

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:25 PM

Sep 30

I don't understand why he's still pretending this is anything but targeting non-white Americans. He's got the both the highest and lowest support he's ever gonna have, and everyone (except sealions) knows precisely what he means. So I don't understand his desire to keep blowing dog-whistles instead of just saying it aloud.

progree

(12,554 posts)

15. He's certainly succeeding on targeting Black people economically

Reply to Torchlight (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:47 PM

Sep 30

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/

I drew the vertical yellow line free-hand -- that's about where January 2025 is, the beginning of tRump's reign

There is also a "Show Table" link below each graph:

Total unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 4.0% --> 4.3%
White unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 3.5% --> 3.7%
Black unemployment rate from January 2025 to August 2025: 6.2% --> 7.5%
. . . from 1.8X the white unemployment rate to 2.0X

The white unemployment rate isn't shown on the graph, but it's in the table

SunSeeker

(57,267 posts)

9. This general at that speech is all of us:

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:19 PM

Sep 30

Witnessof Trump

(1 post)

10. They'll worship yesss

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:26 PM

Sep 30

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,709 posts)

21. Welcome to DU

Reply to Witnessof Trump (Reply #10)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 02:17 PM

Oct 1

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,709 posts)

12. MaddowBlog-Trump pitches generals and admirals on using U.S. cities as military 'training grounds'

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:04 PM

Sep 30

Last edited Tue Sep 30, 2025, 04:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Much of the president’s speech to military leaders was stale and dull. But then he started talking about using the military against the “enemy within.”

Much of Trumpâ€™s speech to generals and admirals was stale, boring, and predictable.

But when he turned his attention to the â€œenemy within,â€ and started talking about using U.S. cities as military â€œtraining grounds,â€ this was a qualitatively different kind of pitch. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-30T16:48:25.800Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-pitches-generals-admirals-using-us-cities-military-training-grou-rcna234708

The rhetoric was mind-numbing, but it was also inappropriate: The in-person audience included several hundred highly decorated generals and admirals. There was no reason to treat these men and women as if they were little more than sycophantic partisan supporters waiting for fresh red meat.

But making matters far more serious was Trump’s pitch on using the U.S. military on American soil. NPR summarized:

President Trump defended the use of U.S. troops in American cities and told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against the ‘enemy within.’ ... ‘This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it’s the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control,’ Trump told those gathered for the highly unusual event at Quantico, Va. ‘It won’t get out of control once you’re involved at all.’

“The ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they’re very unsafe places. And we’re going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room,” he told military leaders. “That’s a war, too. It’s a war from within.”

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-30T14:13:18.668Z

As part of the same argument, the president said he’s told Hegseth that the U.S. “should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”

Trump: "San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles...That's a war too. It's a war from within...I told Pete, we should use some of these cities as training grounds for our military â€” national guard, but military. We're going into Chicago very soon."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-09-30T15:19:27.239Z

After troop deployments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as well as announced deployments to Memphis and Portland, Oregon, many raised concerns about the president’s willingness — and apparent eagerness — to use military force against Americans. After Trump’s speech to generals and admirals, those concerns deserve to be a whole lot louder.

Marthe48

(22,368 posts)

13. traitor wants our cities in ruin

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:09 PM

Sep 30

so they look like all of the cities across the world destroyed by other madmen

LudwigPastorius

(13,815 posts)

14. He's talking about ethnic cleansing.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:46 PM

Sep 30

He wants to "Netanyahu" the Democratic-majority cities in this country.

milestogo

(22,223 posts)

16. Use Mar-a-Lago

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:49 PM

Sep 30

twodogsbarking

(16,776 posts)

18. When does the body count begin?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:47 PM

Sep 30

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,709 posts)

19. These officers are getting a special medal for yesterday

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 08:54 AM

Oct 1

gohuskies

(1,211 posts)

24. Martial Law is coming and Star Chamber 'trials' will follow

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 1, 2025, 09:57 PM

Oct 1

This is clearly the MAGA plan to implement right wing dictatorship. All guardrails are falling away and we have lackeys like Kegsbreath willing to use the US military forces to enslave half of the nation's citizens. And the corrupt 6 supreme court justices will simply let it happen,

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