Trump calls for using US cities as ‘training ground’ for military
President Donald Trump has proposed using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces and spoke of needing military might to combat what he called the “invasion from within.”
He was joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who declared an end to “woke” culture. The fact that admirals and generals from conflict zones were summoned for a lecture on race and gender showed the extent to which the US culture wars have become a front-and-center agenda item for Hegseth’s Pentagon.
The military leaders sat mostly stone-faced through Trump’s politicized remarks.
Trump has already tested the limits of the nearly 150-year-old #PosseComitatus Act, which restricts the military’s domestic role.
#Hegseth said he is easing disciplinary rules and weakening hazing protections, removing guardrails the military put in place after numerous scandals and investigations.