President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. military could use deployment to American cities as an opportunity to train in irregular warfare against public protests drew a blunt reply from a U.S. senator who saw combat during the invasion of Iraq.
The president used an appearance Tuesday before an assemblage of hundreds of top military officials — ordered to gather at a Virginia military base by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth — to offer a familiar barrage of right-wing grievances about the armed forces, including new guidance from Hegseth that could effectively exclude women from combat roles.
