Trump: War is raging within the country
The president who fashions himself a man worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize should make peace with the American people.
Donald Trump is unique among his predecessors. Never over the course of 250 years has a leader of the country so deliberately sown seeds of discord and disunity. Trump’s anger and divisiveness toward at least half the country are hallmarks of his presidency. Both his words and actions are like daggers to the heart and soul of American community and political life.
Erika Kirk, speaking at her husband’s memorial service in Phoenix, forgave Charlie Kirk’s killer, in soulful remarks which suggested an abiding kinship with the teachings of the Prince of Peace. Her slain husband would have understood and approved because, she said, he loved even those who opposed him.
The president, taking the podium after her, said, “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents. And I don’t want the best for them.”
President Trump’s malice was on vivid display during his rambling remarks to the top brass of the U.S. military this past week at Marine Corps Base Quantico.
For a guy who was first nourished amid the high-rise labyrinths of New York City, the president displays a decided loathing for metropolitan America. Maybe it’s because most of the country’s cities vote against him and for Democrats.
Alluding to recent military deployments to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., the president related a recent conversation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military National Guard, because we are going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city, with an incompetent governor, stupid governor, stupid.” The governor, naturally enough, is a Democrat and a Trump critic.
Trump has ordered troops to Portland, Oregon, which, he said, resembles “a war zone.” He said he told Portland’s Democratic mayor that his city looks like Europe did in World War II. “Your place is burning down…. I said you don’t have it under control. This place is a nightmare. It’s brutal.”
To which residents of Portland could only shrug their shoulders, according to press reports.
An undefined “they” spit on troops during a recent urban deployment, the president maintained. “And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he’s not allowed to do anything….. If it’s okay with you generals and admirals, I say, they spit, we hit. Is that okay? I think so.”
“They” also throw rocks, destroying “beautiful, brand-new [government] cars…. I say it here, you get out of that car and you do whatever the hell you want to do…. It’s amazing what strength will do.”
The president told the brass that he had signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that “can help quell civil disturbances. This is going to be a big thing for people in this room because it’s the enemy within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.”
Washington, D.C., the president posited, is populated by “lunatics” and “career criminals.” At least that was the case pre-deployment. In a matter of days, Trump said, the city was transformed. Now a husband and wife from Iowa can walk the city without fear of being shot.
“Our inner cities [are a] big part of our war right now, it’s a big part of war,” President Trump said…
“These insurrectionists are paid by … [George] Soros or other people; they’re paid by the radical left.”
The president continued, “It seems like the [cities] run by the radical left Democrats … San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, [are] very unsafe places. And we’re going to straighten them out one by one…. That’s war, too. It’s war from within.”
“We’ve brought back the fundamental principle,” the commander in chief said, “that defending the homeland is the military’s first and most important priority. That’s what it is.”
The self-proclaimed world peacemaker is making war on Americans. Tragically, the war may be just beginning.
Richard Robbins lives in Uniontown. He can be reached at dick.l.robbins@gmail.com.