Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war [View all]

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."

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