The president and his Secretary of Warlike Gestures dragged generals and admirals to Quantico from all corners of the Earth to be harangued by a third-generation draft-dodger and a guy who pledged on his own skin his loyalty to Pope Urban II. For example, from The Guardian:
“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, that’s a big city with an incompetent governor,” Trump said, attacking Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker.
Training grounds? American cities are training grounds? Chicago is Parris Island? Los Angeles as a live-fire exercise? All that ridicule about "war-ravaged" Portland must've really stung. From the speech :
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