President Donald Trump told top military brass on Tuesday that American cities run by Democrats should serve as “training grounds” for troops as the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a highly anticipated meeting with more than 800 leaders in Virginia.

“I told Pete,” referring to Hegseth, “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” Trump said. “The ones that are run by radical left Democrats — what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They’re very unsafe places and we’re gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s war from within.”

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