A national security expert rated President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday before the nation's military leaders a "10 out of 10" for being the president's "most unsettling" public speech. yet.

Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor in the Obama administration, discussed Trump's speech on Tuesday with Tommy Veitor, co-host of "Pod Save America." Rhodes noted several lines in the speech that gave him pause, like the president telling military leaders that they can use violence to quell civil disturbances in the United States.

"I found this to be one of the most unsettling Trump speeches I've ever seen," Rhodes said. "This is like a 10 out of 10 on the blinking red light."

"Beyond how bizarre and unprecedented and unusual it is, in part because there was no explanation why, I think we all anticipated [Pete] Hegseth giving this kind of performative speech that he did today," Rhodes said. "But the reason I was unsettled when I first saw it is that I was afraid that this would happen."

"One of my fears from the beginning has been, if you look at the authoritarian playbook, Trump is running all the plays about the media, about the opposition, about the law firms, about the universities, about dissent," he continued. "But really the absolute last third rail, the absolute scariest thing is when the US military, the most powerful institution in the world, is suddenly introduced to this."