A day after President Donald Trump informed top-ranking generals and admirals that the U.S. is preventing a “warfare from inside,” Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned the president’s feedback present his skill to “take crime critically,” whereas Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries mentioned the remarks had been “disturbing.”
The 2 politicians spoke on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday concerning the president’s statements together with the federal government shutdown, which took impact at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday.
Whereas Johnson mentioned he had not heard Trump’s remarks on Tuesday — as he was “a bit busy” — he mentioned the president “takes crime critically.” Johnson additionally mentioned Trump’s feedback about violence in American cities had been “cherry-picked out of a protracted speech.”
Trump mentioned Tuesday that the navy’s job just isn’t solely to guard the USA from threats overseas, but in addition what he repeatedly known as a home enemy in American cities.
Mike Johnson speaks with ABC Information, Oct. 1, 2025, following a authorities shutdown.
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“It is a warfare from inside,” the president mentioned to the room of high-ranking navy generals who flew from throughout the globe to Quantico, Virginia. “We’re underneath invasion from inside,” Trump mentioned.
Trump talked about his efforts to extend using the U.S. navy in American cities. Trump claimed Democratic-run cities, corresponding to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, are in “unhealthy form,” and that he threatened to “straighten them out, one after the other.”
Hakeem Jeffries speaks with ABC Information, Oct. 1, 2025, following a authorities shutdown.
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“I informed Pete [Hegseth] we should always use a few of these harmful cities as coaching grounds for our navy Nationwide Guard,” he mentioned.
Jeffries mentioned the president’s remark was a “disturbing assertion.”
“A single American ought to by no means be seen as an ‘enemy from inside’ or as goal follow for the American navy,” Jeffries mentioned.
“We’ve got the best navy on the earth and they need to be used to maintain us protected from exterior enemies,” Jeffries added.
