Been seeing this pop up that Trump will declare martial law on the 20th. I hope it’s not true but I can totally see him doing it. He wanted to do it in his first term and was stopped by a military that wouldn’t give in to a wannabe dictator. He quickly got rid of those people this time and now it’s yes men loyal that are loyal to him before anything else. I know a fair amount of Trump voters that voted thinking about their 401k’s but can’t see them supporting that. It would be to late of course.
I don't know the specific words or incident you're referring to.
But often Trump says stuff at press conferences, just brainstorming random ideas to deal with problems that have festered for at least 16 years under Obama and Biden leadership, and in sanctuary cities, or cities like L.A. and San Francisco where crime is rampant because of ultra-lenient Democrat/Left orchestrated laws.
Such as allowing people to steal up to $1,000 worth of merchandise in retail stores without the slightest fear of criminal prosecution, to the point that in places like L.A. and San Francisco, many drug stores, supermarkets, restaurant chains and other businesses are closing their branch locations in and around those cities.
There are Constitutional laws against bringing the military into civilian-run U.S. cities, laws made to avoid rise of an authoritarian police state situation (as the British troops were, in pre-Revoluionary War-era times, where troops were even housed in colonials' homes, and colonials had no say or consent about it).
But there are exceptions where use of he military in cities is allowed , such as after a hurricane or other national disaster, where National Guard troops are deployed, to restore order.
And in May and June 2020, it sure would have been nice if Governor Tim Walz had deployed National Guard in Minneapolis IMMEDIATELY after the George Floyd death incident, to deter rioting and looting, instead of letting riots and looting run wild and escalate every night for a week, and then spread rioting and looting to a least 600 other cities nationwide in the summer of 2020.
Trump has not made the slightest plans or move to deploy the military in cities, he has just tossed out random ideas for consideration, to deal with major problems that preceded his inauguration.
And Trump is not the first to suggest using several thousand National Guard to assist Border Patrol in securing the southern border (Pat Buchanan suggested doing exactly this, in his 2001 and 2006 books). Although since Trump has already secured the border by an incredible 95% in less than 2 months, that appears unnecessary and unlikely at this point. And the border is not a civilian city, even if he did.
When Trump expresses random ideas like this in an off-the-cuff way in front of the press, with no serious intent to actually plan or do it, I think it is a head-fake move on his part, to make others nervous about what he MIGHT do, if he doesn't get cooperation on some other more pragmatic solutions he intended in the first place. Such as with the threat of tariffs right now on countries trading with the U.S., to get other nations to negotiate
an alternative to tariffs, that at this exact moment has resulted over 70 nations capitulating to Trump's demands, and in re-aligning the world against China's unfair trade excesses.
But it does give the Democrat leadership and Democrat-Bolshevik liberal media the barest vapors on which to speculate and generate hysteria that Trump is somehow the re-incarnation of Hitler.
