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President Trump, refusing to replay the chaos of his first term, is slamming the pedal on America First — deploying U.S. military might straight to domestic streets to crush civil unrest before it ignites.
The Pentagon is ordering thousands of National Guard troops into civil disturbance training, with a new 200-member "quick reaction force" armed with riot gear and ready to roll by Jan. 1, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
A separate 23,500-strong National Guard Reaction Force, spread across 50 states and three territories, excluding D.C, must be fully operational by April 1, the documents state.
The quick reaction force draws from elite Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Assistance Support Element units, trained for disasters and unrest, with first-wave mobilization in eight hours and full force in 24, equipped with Tasers, pepper spray and 100 sets of crowd-control gear per unit.
A defense official, speaking anonymously, told the Post the Pentagon is "revising plans for the employment of [National Guard Reaction Forces] to guarantee their ability to assist federal, state and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances."
Trump has already mobilized thousands of Guard troops to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, with Chicago and Portland deployments stalled by courts.
He claims absolute authority to unleash active-duty forces if needed.
"We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled," Trump told service members in Japan on Tuesday. "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."
To reporters, he added, “The courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I could send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. I could send anybody I wanted."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered more briefs in the Chicago dispute, delaying a ruling until mid-November at earliest.
A federal appeals court Tuesday agreed to rehear Portland’s case after a panel initially green-lit deployment.
Trump’s iron-fisted playbook signals zero tolerance for the lawlessness that dogged his first ride—putting boots on ground, law and order first, political correctness be damned.
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