Trump Wants To Turn U.S. Military Against American People With Latest Plan, LA Mayor Says

Source: Huff Post

Oct 2, 2025, 05:57 PM EDT | Updated 6 minutes ago


Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is tearing into President Donald Trump for suggesting that the military use some of the country’s “dangerous cities as training grounds.”

Speaking with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Bass accused Trump of “creating warfare within” major cities after he made the suggestion while meeting Tuesday with hundreds of senior U.S. military officials. Trump held the rare meeting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Quantico, Virginia.

“The statements that were made to the military yesterday, acknowledging that we are going to experiment with our cities and use our cities as training grounds for warfare, what that is saying is that the president of the United States wants to turn the U.S. military against the American people,” Bass said Wednesday, according to multiple outlets.

She added, “You are talking about creating warfare within cities, and again, I will point out, there’s something these cities have in common.” Bass went on to suggest that “instead of using us as a test ground for the military,” the Trump administration is choosing “to cut programs that actually help to lower the violence and crime rate.”

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