A day after President Donald Trump instructed top-ranking generals and admirals that the U.S. is preventing a “struggle from inside,” Speaker Mike Johnson stated the president’s feedback present his skill to “take crime significantly,” whereas Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries stated the remarks had been “disturbing.”
The 2 politicians spoke on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday in regards to the president’s statements together with the federal government shutdown, which took impact at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday.
Whereas Johnson stated he had not heard Trump’s remarks on Tuesday — as he was “a little bit busy” — he stated the president “takes crime significantly.” Johnson additionally stated Trump’s feedback about violence in American cities had been “cherry-picked out of a protracted speech.”
Trump stated Tuesday that the navy’s job isn’t solely to guard the US 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 struggle from inside,” the president stated to the room of high-ranking navy generals who flew from throughout the globe to Quantico, Virginia. “We’re underneath invasion from inside,” Trump stated.
Trump talked about his efforts to extend the usage of the U.S. navy in American cities. Trump claimed Democratic-run cities, reminiscent of 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 instructed Pete [Hegseth] we should always use a few of these harmful cities as coaching grounds for our navy Nationwide Guard,” he stated.
Jeffries stated 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 stated.
“We have now the best navy on the planet and they need to be used to maintain us protected from exterior enemies,” Jeffries added.
