President Trump told American troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday that he was prepared to send “more than the National Guard” into cities to enforce his crackdowns on crime and immigration, further escalating how he has talked about using the military at home and abroad.
It is legally and constitutionally perilous—the deployment of ‘more than the National Guard’ into American cities without clear state and local agreement pushes the boundaries of the constitution, the Posse Comitatus Act among other thing. President Trump is pushing the boundaries to see just how far he can go, but how far is that? And that’s the memo.
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJB)
President Trump’s remarks mark a bold escalation in how a national leader views domestic deployment of military power. While not the final picture, it is a manifestation of one of the patterns foreseen: internal militarization, centralized control, national governments suspending normal civil-rights frameworks in the name of “order.” It presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the Church to think deeply about governmental authority, the use of force, the preservation of freedom, and how believers live faithfully in a changing world. America is changing quite rapidly, Christian, and you may not like what’s coming.
Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities
FROM THE NY TIMES: Speaking to thousands of military service members aboard an aircraft carrier at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on Tuesday, Mr. Trump delivered a partisan speech that resembled the raucous rallies that made him an ascendant force in U.S. politics. But throughout his nearly hourlong speech, his usual ramblings about the physical appearances of audience members and steam-powered catapults were laced with dark warnings about how he might choose to deploy military forces.
“We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled,” Mr. Trump said. “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.”
Legal disputes over what troops under federal control may be used to do on domestic soil — like a bar on using them to enforce the law, except when there is an insurrection — treat National Guard troops under federal control and active-duty troops as the same. Mr. Trump also defended the U.S. military’s strikes against what the administration has said are suspected drug smugglers. The tactics have drawn widespread rebuke from experts who have said it is illegal to use the military to target civilians — including criminal suspects — who are not directly participating in hostilities.
Mr. Trump has increasingly used speeches to the military to air his grievances and bolster his accomplishments. Still, the scene was striking: an American president defending war and military deployments on U.S. soil, and employing partisan talking points on the global stage.
The president delivered his speech on the U.S.S. George Washington, an aircraft carrier docked south of Tokyo, at an American military base in Japan that was set up in the aftermath of World War II. It was an unsubtle show of force as Mr. Trump prepares to meet China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, this week, for talks that hold great stakes for the global economy. Mr. Trump has long sought to make greater use of the military on domestic soil. In his first term, especially during the 2020 “Black Lives Matter” protests that sometimes devolved into rioting, he was restrained by his advisers. In the 2024 campaign, he vowed to use the military to help crack down on immigration and deploy troops into Democratic-run cities.
In June, Mr. Trump took federal control of the California National Guard and deployed it, along with active-duty Marines, into Los Angeles. He later deployed National Guard troops under federal control in Washington, and has been pushing to expand such deployments in cities like Chicago, Memphis and Portland, Ore.
Local and state Democratic officials in California, Oregon and Illinois have objected to the deployments and filed a series of legal challenges in court, which are still working their way through the system. The issues turn in part on how much deference courts should show to Mr. Trump’s “determinations” as president that the local police cannot keep protests of his immigration crackdown under control, when local officials say troops are unnecessary.
On Tuesday, he signaled that he was prepared to go further in deploying the military on American soil. READ MORE
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