President Donald Trump on Tuesday told about 800 of the country’s top military officials that he’s using “dangerous cities as training grounds” for the military and will be going into Chicago “very soon.”

Trump’s wide-ranging and unprecedented address to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia comes a day after Gov. JB Pritzker said he had received word that the Department of Homeland Security wants to send in 100 “military troops” to Illinois to help protect ICE facilities and personnel.

“I told [Defense Secretary] Pete [Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon,” Trump said in a wide-ranging address to military leaders at Quantico. “That’s a big city with an incomp

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