President Trump ramped up his warnings to what he calls "troubled" American cities on Tuesday with a suggestion that he might deploy military troops, reports the Hill:
- "We have cities that are troubled—we can't have cities that are troubled," Trump said in a speech to troops stationed at the US naval base in Yokosuka, Japan. "And we're sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard, we'll send more than the National Guard, because we're going to have safe cities."
- "We're not going to have people killed in our cities," Trump added. "Whether people like that or not, that's what we're doing."
Trump has already sent National Guard units into cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and Memphis to confront protests over immigration enforcement, though local officials in all but Memphis have challenged the deployments, per USA Today. The president has previously floated the idea of invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act, which would allow him to send active-duty military forces into cities if he believes the National Guard isn't enough. "I'd do it if it was necessary," Trump said earlier this month. "So far, it hasn't been necessary. But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd do that."
In his speech, Trump also struck an aggressive tone about the US strikes against what the administration says are drug smugglers in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, notes the New York Times. "We're winning it already, the sea," he said. "I mean, the only problem is, nobody wants to go into the sea anymore, even the fishing boats."
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