Thread: Trump using US cities for military training | Insurrection Act vs. Posse Comitatus

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

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ime-crackdown/

Summary:
Sept. 30, 2025

President Trump told a gathering of military leaders Tuesday they should use American cities as “training grounds” and described a federal crackdown on crime in major cities as necessary due to “a war from within.”

Trump addressed dozens of top generals and admirals in Quantico, VA, where he said defending the homeland was the military’s “most important priority.” He signaled the leaders in the room could be tasked with aiding in federal interventions in Democratic-led cities such as Chicago and New York City.

“They’re very unsafe places, and we’re going to straighten them out one by one,” Trump said. “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.”

“I told [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but our military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon,” Trump added. “That’s a big city with an incompetent governor.”

The White House has already directed the deployment of National Guard troops across Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., as part of an effort to quell crime in those cities. This week, announced he would send troops to Portland, OR.

Trump has for weeks threatened to deploy the National Guard to other cities such as Chicago, New York and New Orleans, despite state and local officials pushing back and saying such a move would inflame tensions.

Democratic leaders have likened Trump’s use of the military in American cities to an authoritarian tactic.

“America is under invasion from within. We’re under invasion from within,” Trump said Tuesday. “No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don’t wear uniforms.”

Note: Highlighting is per GaiaGoddess.

Posse Comitatus Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government and any other government entities such as county sheriffs and justices of the peace that are authorized to form a posse comitatus in the use of federal military personnel to execute the law within the United States.

Congress passed the Act as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021.

Per RFB, they are using The Insurrection Act of 1807.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is the U.S. federal law that empowers the president of the United States to nationally deploy the U.S. military and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion against the federal government of the U.S.^[1] The Insurrection Act provides a statutory exception to the Posse Comitatus Act (187 that limits the president's deploying the U.S. military to enforce either civil law or criminal law within the United States.

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[13:29] Discussion on deploying the National Guard across the U.S.
[15:00] Comment on using The Insurrection Act in lieu of the Posse Comitatus Act.

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Channel: RFB II
Published: 10/14/25
23:21 minutes