Donald Trump has addressed hundreds of US generals in Virginia on subjects ranging from climbing stairs to the Ukraine crisis, frequently repeating his points and jumping between subjects.
Trump spoke for more than an hour and ten minutes on Tuesday, growing increasingly popular as his self-described “weave” grew larger.
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He praised his own foreign policy, expressed familiar grievances about his political foes, and demanded that warships be more attractive.
The generals were informed, however, that the US president would concentrate on domestic missions.
Five important lessons can be learned from Trump’s speech:
concentrating on the “enemy within”
Trump repeatedly made the suggestion that he wanted the military to deal with alleged domestic threats, including what he perceived as riots and unauthorised immigration.
He claimed that he signed an executive order last month to train a quick response force capable of halting civil unrest.
Because it’s the enemy from within, we must deal with it before it spirals out of control, the people in this room are going to be big fans of it.
Trump has mandated the deployment of military installations in Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, California, Washington, DC, and Memphis, Tennessee.
He suggested sending the military to other major cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York on Tuesday, citing the threat of war.
Some of the people in this room will be major players in this area. That also constitutes war. Trump remarked, “This is a war from within.”
The campaign has posed legal questions about the US military’s role and potential legal infringements. It is already facing legal challenges in court.
The states are granted all duties that are not otherwise deemed to be federal by the US Constitution, including policing.
Additionally, the US military is prohibited from conducting civilian law enforcement in the country unless “expressly authorized” by the law under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
Ironically, Trump’s Republican Party has long opposed to expanding federal authority.
arguing the Nobel Peace Prize
As he enumerated several global crises that he claimed he had personally resolved, including the May clashes between India and Pakistan, the US president attempted to portray himself as a peacemaker.
He argued that his efforts merited a Nobel Peace Prize.
“Will you receive the Nobel Prize?” Absolutely not,” Trump said. They’ll give it to a man who did nothing wrong.
If he doesn’t receive the award, he added, it would be a “big insult” to the US.
Trump has launched attacks against Caribbean boats he claimed are armed with drugs during his first nine months in office, bombing Iran and Yemen, and intensifying drone strikes in Somalia.
However, his administration hasn’t provided specific evidence that the deadly airstrikes targeted drug smugglers. Trump and his supporters have joked that the US military’s campaign has caused fishermen’s waters to no longer be safe in the nearby waters.
Plan to end the conflict in Gaza
Trump argued that a ceasefire in Gaza is imminent, claiming that Hamas needs to agree with his peace plan because Israel, Arab and Muslim countries, and other countries have accepted it.
His prediction was that the entire region would be settled by his 20-point plan.
“I asked, “How long have you been fighting?” Three thousand years, sir. That’s a long time, but we finally settled it, in my opinion. The US president said, “We’ll see.”
The first Arab-Israeli conflict broke out in 1948 after the Zionist colonization of Palestine.
Trump stated earlier on Tuesday that Hamas would need three or four days to respond to his suggestion, or it would have a “very sad end.”
Putin’s disgrace is disappointing.
Trump blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the ongoing conflict, saying that he is still working to put an end to the Ukrainian war.
Trump also made the claim that Russia is struggling militarily with the conflict, claiming that every week thousands of soldiers are killed on either side.
Trump remarked, “I’m so disappointed in President Putin.
I said I believed he would finish this matter. That war ought to have been finished in a week for him. And I said to him, “You know, you don’t look good,” You’ve been fighting a war for four years, which ought to have lasted a week. Are you paper tiger-like?
Trump and Putin had direct discussions last month in Alaska, and he has been pushing for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the president of Ukraine.
However, US diplomacy has so far failed to put an end to the fighting.
Trump claimed last week that Ukraine could reclaim all of the Russian-occupied territory, reversing earlier claims that Kyiv would need to relinquish some of its territory in order to reach a peace agreement with Moscow.
Biden grievances
Trump made fun of Joe Biden throughout the speech, claiming that Putin’s revolt was the result of his administration’s erratic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He repeatedly referred to the Biden administration as “incompetent.”
He told the generals, “You’ll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there.”
Trump said he carefully avoids falling, as Biden did on a few occasions while he was president.
