Jun 11, 2025 12:48:47 am
I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, yet I’m sounding the alarm. You are welcome to read the two articles attached and make up your own mind regarding my ‘over-reaction.’ Donald Trump is unhinged and very clearly out of his mind with rage. He threatened to meet any protests over the weekend in D.C. with overwhelming force. Protests, not riots. To drive home his point he visited Fort Bragg earlier today to watch a display of American firepower on American soil. It is all being choreographed to send a message to WE THE PEOPLE. He wants people to be afraid, to cower, to bend the knee and kiss the ring. I’d rather kiss a toad.
AN AWESOME DISPLAY OF AUTHORITARIANISM: President Donald Trump hailed an ‘awesome display of pure, unrivaled American military might’ after troops at Fort Bragg put on a massive military display for him.
‘We want to show off a little bit,’ Trump told thousands of troops he addressed on a visit to the historic fort in North Carolina, defending the display.
With thousands of the nation’s warriors gathered to hear him, Trump issued a series of blunt warnings to protesters in Los Angeles, singling out those who had engaged in violence and ‘anarchy.’
He spoke of the ‘attacks of a vicious and violent mob.’
Trump called it an ‘invasion and Third World lawlessness’ – in words that carry potential weight because of the law he invoked to dispatch troops.
He said he wouldn’t allow a city to be invaded by a ‘foreign enemy.’
‘We will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean and safe again,’ Trump vowed.
Troops provided the president with a powerful demonstration of military muscle – launching rockets that have been vital to the defense of Ukraine while the commander-in-chief looked on.
‘I just saw something that was crazy – You don’t want to mess …’ Trump said after making a dramatic entry from Marine One.
‘They just gave me a display that you might be lucky not to see, because it’s a little scary. It was beautiful to watch,’ he mused.
He saw powerful launches of HIMARS rockets, saw special operators deposited on a building, and got a flyover by an F-15 aircraft.
The venue – a base where hundreds of thousands of troops from all corners of the country have been stationed over the decades – didn’t keep Trump from taking shots at former President Joe Biden and what he called the ‘fake news.’
Using language that could have been ripped from a campaign Trump rally, Trump called ‘open borders’ the ‘dumbest policy yet,’ then said it was ‘even dumber than men playing in women’s sports, transgender for everyone.’
Trump’s administration is in court over ending the Biden administration’s policy on transgender troops.
Nor did he restrain himself from making political comments like touting his winning electoral coalition. ‘Remember they used to say: “But Trump doesn’t have the young people.” We won. We won everything,’ he digressed at one point. He touted his 2024 electoral win and called it ‘too big to rig’ – a reference to his false claims he won the 2020 election.
He mentioned LA Mayor Karen Bass, which prompted boos from the crowd, and mocked Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz. When he was done speaking, Trump did a brief dance to Y.M.C.A.
Trump vowed that Fort Bragg would never go through a name change again – and rattled off a series of forts being named – including one for Robert E. Lee.
Photo images captured Trump with troops viewing the awesome display of military might.
Longtime Trump aide Dan Scavino posted dramatic footage of Trump viewing the rocket launches.
When Marine One touched down for Trump’s speech, ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People was playing to the crowd. The song is a staple at Trump rallies.
Trump’s remarks were laced with emotive language touting American power and warning any potential enemies.
‘Our army has smashed foreign empires, humbled kings toppled tyrants and hunted terrorist savages through the very gates of hell,’ Trump said from the ‘one and only Fort Bragg.’
He vowed to US enemies that the US military would ‘chase you down, crush you and cast you into oblivion.’
‘Remember it was only that little brief moment that it wasn’t called Fort Bragg. It was by the Biden administration,’ Trump said – ripping his predecessor over the name change under a law barring names honoring Confederates. He also called California Gavin Newsom ‘Gavin Newscum’ during his remarks to the troops.
It all came on a day when Newsom accused Trump of ‘turning the U.S. military against American citizens’ with his decision to send forces into Los Angeles amid destructive street protests there.
Trump flew to North Carolina to tour the base, which hosts more than 50,000, in anticipation of a parade in DC that will mark the 250th anniversary of the US Army.
Trump on Monday denied that the massive $45 million parade was a tribute to his own birthday, which coincides with the event.
He spoke about the event again Tuesday, vowing the protesters would be met by ‘heavy force.’
‘We’re going to be celebrating big on Saturday,’ he said. ‘And if there’s any protester that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force.’ He continued: ‘I haven’t even heard about a protest, but you know, this is people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.’
Trump got the military demonstration before addressing about 15,000 troops.
He was set to visit a bunker and get to see a display of powerful artillery, along with special forces and paratroopers.
For Bragg serves as the headquarters of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, and houses highly skilled Green Berets and the historic 82nd Airborne Division.
Accompanying him is embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard, and has made a habit of working out with troops during visits.
During remarks on Monday, Trump revisted his complaints about renaming historic facilities like Fort Bragg.
‘We win World Wars from Fort, Robert E. Lee, from Fort, Bragg – from all the different forts. And what do we do? We change the name of the forts because we want to be politically correct,’ Trump complained.
The base was renamed Fort Liberty in accordance with a 2020 federal law barring naming facilities after people who fought on behalf of the South against the United States during the Civil War. (The law was enacted over Trump’s veto during his first term).
Now, his administration found a workaround by renaming it in February after Private First Class Roland Bragg, rather than the slaveowning Confederate Braxton Bragg it was previously named after.
Bragg was also a ‘famously poor general’ who helped lead an armed insurrection against the U.S. As it turns out, Trump visted the nation’s largest military installation on a day he warned he might use the Insurrection Act to put down street protests in Los Angeles he has described as a rebellion.
Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops, along with 700 Marines, to Los Angeles to restore order there. California on Monday sued, saying the deployment is unlawful without the consent of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
It also comes days before Trump hosts a military parade in DC honoring the 250th anniversary of the Army. Trump has denied that it has to do with his 79th birthday, which falls on the same day.
Tanks could be seen rolling into Washington in preparation for the event.
Trump on Monday revisited complaints about the U.S. not getting enough credit for the allied victory in World War II.
He recalled watching other countries including France and Russia mark the end of World War II on Victory in Europe Day, bringing up the millions of casualties sustained by Russia and once again claimed ‘Hitler made a speech at the Eiffel Tower’ – although there is no record of one.
Dozens of tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, along with Strykers and other armored vehicles will all be part of the show of strength in the Nation’s capital.
‘It’s going to be a parade, the likes of which, I don’t know if we’ve ever had a parade like that. It’s going to be incredible,’ Trump said Monday. – By Geoff Earle for DMail June 10.
EQUAL OR GREATER FORCE: President Donald Trump flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act in Los Angeles as he tore into ‘bad people’ and ‘animals’ he said brought the city to the verge of burning down.
The president defended his decision to send 700 U.S. Marines as well as California National Guard to Los Angeles, and brushed off California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s claim that the deployment inflamed the situation.
And he would not rule out use of an authority to deploy military forces under his control to put down disturbances if he sees fit.
‘If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We’ll see. But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible,’ Trump said.
‘If we didn’t send in the national guard quickly, right now, Los Angeles would be burning to the ground,’ Trump told reporters in an impromptu Oval Office meeting with members of his team.
The president also offered a warning amid complaints from critics that he is using the California standoff to flex authority in Democratic-run states.
‘I can inform the rest of the country, when they do it, if they do it, they will be met with equal or greater force than we met here,’ Trump said.
‘This is the first perhaps of many or perhaps if we didn’t attack this one very strongly, you would have them all over the country,’ Trump said.
He spoke as he is deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops, along with 700 Marines, to LA.
He railed against people seen on video battling police during street protests that kicked off in opposition to ICE raids to pick up illegal immigrants. He repeatedly referred to ‘bad, sick people’ and ‘agitators’ he said were paid.
‘There are certainly areas of Los Angeles you could have called It an insurrection,’ Trump said. It was terrible.’ ‘These are paid troublemakers. They get money,’ he said.
His word choice is relevant, in part because there is statutory authority under the Insurrection Act to use the military domestically in case of rebellion or insurrection.
Trump has said there may have been one, while California authorities have said local police have the authority to put down street demonstrations and flare ups of violence.
‘These are paid insurrectionists or agitators or troublemakers. You can call it whatever you want,’ Trump said. He spoke repeatedly about people seen breaking up sidewalk concrete to use as a ‘weapon.’
Trump repeatedly attacked Gov. Newsom, calling him an ‘incompetent man and an incompetent governor.’ Newsom, a Democrat, is considered a potential Democratic contender, and the turmoil in L.A. is a potential proxy battlefield for the two powerful figures. Newsom’s state filed suit Monday against Trump’s deployment of National Guard without Newsom’s consent.
Trump said Newsom was ‘doing a bad job’ and ‘causing a lot of death.’
Trump, a builder and real estate baron who still owns a sprawling property empire, returned repeatedly to the street materials that in some vandals were seen using against vehicles in downtown L.A.
‘He’s pounding the curb. This one guy’s pounding the curb, breaking the curb, and handing big pieces of granite, in some cases it’s granite, granite and concrete, to other people, and they’re running out with it. And then we watch the other people, and they try and throw it into the face of the soldiers, throw it into the face of the police.
‘They go up on bridges. They drop it down on the cars as the cars are moving. They’re not breaking the curb because they they’re doing a demolition service. They’re breaking it to hand out to people as a weapon. That’s bad. That’s bad stuff. I’ve never seen that before,’ said Trump, 78.
Trump’s June 7 order cites Title 10 of the U.S. Code, Section 12406, which authorizes the president to deploy Guard units when the nation is facing an invasion or a ‘rebellion or danger of rebellion’ or if the president is ‘unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.’
But the 1878 the Posse Comitatus Act generally prohibits the use of U.S. military forces from carrying out civilian law enforcement functions. In his own public pronouncements, Trump has described the protests in LA. as an ‘invasion’ and called out ‘violent, insurrectionist mobs.’
The LAPD has nearly 9,000 officers. Trump’s weekend executive order cited ‘credible threats of continued violence.’ During his Tuesday comments, Trump said there were certain areas of LA where ‘you could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible.’
The last time a U.S. president invoked the Insurrection Act was 1992, when George W. Bush used it to deploy troops during the Rodney King riots.
California’s lawsuit denies an ‘invasion’ or ‘rebellion,’ and says Trump’s existing deployment violate’s the 10th Amendment, which establishes states’ rights.
Trump revealed that he called Newsom Monday to tell him to ‘do a better job,’ he said. Newsom filed an emergency motion Tuesday in an effort to block Trump’s military deployment.
‘Trump is turning the U.S. military against American citizens,’ he posted on X. ‘The courts must immediately block these illegal actions.’ By Geoff Earle for DMail June 10.