00:00Retired General, Trump sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan.
00:05Retired General Barry McCaffrey attributed many adjectives to describe President Donald Trump's speech, none of which are flattering.
00:13McCaffrey was speaking about the President's address to military leaders Tuesday morning in Quantico, Virginia, per The Hill.
00:20That presentation at Quantico from the President and Secretary of Defense was one of the most bizarre, unsettling events I've ever encountered,
00:28McCaffrey said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday.
00:31The President sounded incoherent, exhausted, rabidly partisan, at times stupid, meandering, couldn't hold a thought together, he continued.
00:39On Tuesday, President Donald Trump declared that dangerous cities could serve as training grounds for the military,
00:46claiming the United States is facing a war from within.
00:50We're under invasion from within.
00:51No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms, Trump said, according to the Associated Press.
01:01Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth said they want to end woke policies and, in effect, end the era of political correctness for the military.
01:09The era of politically correct, overly sensitive, don't hurt anyone's feelings leadership ends right now at every level, Hegseth said, per the AP.
01:19It's to protect our republic, Trump said.
01:21Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the meeting was an expensive, dangerous dereliction of leadership by the Trump administration.
01:30Even more troubling was Mr. Hegseth's ultimatum to America's senior officers, conform to his political worldview or step aside, Reed said.
01:40Reed called Trump's remarks reckless.
01:43President Trump's remarks offered no strategy, no operational guidance, and no plan to address real threats.
01:49His reckless suggestion that American cities be used as training grounds for U.S. troops is a dangerous assault on our democracy, treating our own communities as war zones and our citizens as enemies, Reed said.
02:02House Speaker Mike Johnson, on the other hand, praised Trump's message.
02:06It's a win-win scenario because National Guardsmen are proud of that duty that they performed, and they brought crime down dramatically in D.C.
02:14I think we should do that in every major city run by Democrats who aren't serious, Johnson said on CNN's Inside Politics.
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