trump’s Military Madness: The Real Reason Troops Are in Our Streets

Unmasking the Real Motive Behind His Military Show of Force

Raise your hand if you like or support crime in your area or any area anywhere. I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that not one of my readers has a hand raised (unless, of course, you’re a shitposter).

Now, raise your hand if you oppose your city or town being invaded by an armed National Guard under the false premise of a "crime emergency" that is mysteriously only being recognized in Blue states.

This time, I assume every single hand is raised, even if just in spirit. You can put them down now.

trump has been making a very big deal out of sending the National Guard where they aren’t wanted or needed—a solution in search of a problem, hammers in search of nails. He’s framing these deployments as emergencies, but the only emergency is his need to change the subject from his failing policies.

First, Los Angeles, where the troops had nowhere to sleep and virtually nothing to do. Next, he deployed them in Washington, DC, where the crime was so bad they spent their time collecting garbage and landscaping.

And now, he’s threatened to send the National Guard to Chicago, where Governor Pritzker has explicitly told trump they don’t want ‘em and don’t need ‘em. But trump is pushing the issue.

On Saturday, he posted yet another idiotic, adolescent trolling meme depicting himself as a character from Apocalypse Now, with the text, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning … Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” in reference to his unnecessary rebranding of the Department of Defense.

If trump were just a frat boy or someone using the computer in their mom’s basement, this would not be a big deal. But, as deranged and stupid as this 79-year-old is acting, he is still technically the President of the United States.

And he essentially declared war on one of his own states.

His defenders will rush to sane-splain his behavior: “Oh, he was just kidding, you can’t take a joke.” To that, I ask: What kind of president, with the awesome powers of the office, jokes like that, especially after his increasingly antagonistic and provocative rhetoric?

Answer: For the short term, the kind who needs to distract from the Epstein scandal that is defying his Teflon imperviousness to political harm. For the long term, he wants to get Americans accustomed to seeing armed troops in the streets of our own cities.

Perhaps that is meant to intimidate us when elections roll around. Or maybe it’s even more sinister: there was talk from a previous election that he wanted to mobilize the military to go into cities and confiscate voting machines.

Normally, during any other time, that would sound absolutely batshit insane. But these are not normal times, and trump says dozens of batshit crazy things before noon every day. People will try to speak in calm, dulcet tones and implore us to “calm down, you’re overreacting.”

Sadly, I feel like we’re underreacting. These crazy things have been a slow-moving coup in broad daylight, amidst a firehose of insanity so we can’t focus on any one thing—it’s like the equivalent of an enemy attacker throwing a bunch of smoke bombs to hinder our senses and ability to see what is coming.

For the most part, it’s working. Jill and Joe Sixpack, average Americans who are concerned with their mortgage, rent payments, and rising grocery and utility costs, are not watching CNN or MSNBC for the latest reason we should be panicking. And that’s the majority of voters, who don’t have the bandwidth for the daily shitshow.

Meanwhile, trump and his acolytes are framing their Blue State invasions as emergency crime-fighting initiatives and have even dubbed his impending invasion of Chicago “Operation Midway Blitz.” Even as he denies he’s going to war with Chicago, he did admit last week, “We’re going in.”

He has since attempted to walk back his phrasing of the invasion, but there is no mistaking the intent is still there; he means for this to be a figurative punch in the mouth to Governors of "sanctuary states" that oppose trump's cruel deportation tactics.

And his propaganda bus threatens to run over anyone who doesn’t buy his narrative or paints them with a “pro-crime” brush, insisting if you’re not with trump’s fascist takeover, you’re with the criminals.

He has attempted to scapegoat undocumented immigrants as a major source of crime, often accusing people (without evidence) of being members of MS-13, infamously deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on a dubious accusation of gang affiliation. In fact, 70 percent of people detained by ICE have no criminal background whatsoever.

But trump is not one to let a little thing like facts and the truth get in the way of a false narrative that he can just pound into the public consciousness through repetition.

This faux crime operation of his is more headlines and soundbites than bullets and bombs. If he were truly interested in addressing crime, he’d be working with, not against, local law enforcement and the governors of these states.

In fact, a court just ruled that trump’s use of the National Guard in LA was unlawful, a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the U.S. Armed Forces for domestic civilian law enforcement.

He has threatened to roll this out to other Blue states and has not yet mentioned one red state, despite the fact that statistics show that some cities in those states have higher violent crime rates than in Blue states.

If he were interested in addressing crime rates, which ironically were already falling in the states he’s invaded, as well as those he plans to invade, he’d release the crime-fighting funding already approved by Congress earmarked to provide funds for crime-fighting initiatives.

All he’s interested in is vilifying immigrants, scapegoating folks who are mostly law-abiding by a wide margin to try to galvanize support for his masked thugs’ kidnapping operation. So far, he’s deported a bunch of hard-working men, women, and children with no criminal record, and not much else.

The crime rates were already plummeting before the Guard arrived in DC, so once their 30-day extension runs out (if it ever does), he will claim credit for the drop in crime. On Monday, he whined that domestic abuse complaints threatened to ruin his perfect 100% elimination of crime: “If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, ‘this is a crime.’”

But this deployment is not sustainable. The so-called criminals may just be taking a little vacation or recalibrating their efforts to operate in other, non-military-occupied streets.

If you were concerned about bullying in local schools and deployed enough military personnel to have one per student, sure—bullying would probably “stop” 100%... until they left. Once the military leaves, the bullying (or crime) resumes.

The misuse of our military should be impeachable and should not be subject to the approval of a complicit and cowardly Congress; there should be a built-in failsafe that automatically kicks in if one side has a majority but refuses to act.

Until then, every single city and suburb should be full of protests every single weekend between now and November 2026 to ensure that Jill and Joe Sixpack get the message and vote those fascists out of office.

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If push came to shove, do you think you could count on your own neighbors, friends, and co-workers to take any kind of stand against trump's fascist invasions? Leave your comment below.