President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to make the military “stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before”
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President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to make the military “stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than it has ever been before” in his address to hundreds of senior U.S. military officers during an extraordinary meeting that has placed many of the Pentagon’s top generals and admirals in one room.
Trump’s remarks follow a speech by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in which he pledged to fix “decades of decay” in the military, which he blamed on “foolish and reckless politicians.” Both Trump and Hegseth decried what they described as “political correctness” in the military in the past.
The gathering, at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, was ordered by Hegseth last week and required some top military officers across the globe to fly thousands of miles on short notice.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) slammed President Trump for a sharing a video Monday that used artificial intelligence (AI) to alter Democratic leaders’ comments ahead of a looming government shutdown.
“This is all designed to be a malignant distraction from people who are determined to continue to rip healthcare away from the American people and Democrats are resolved to stand up for it,” Jeffries told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell in an interview. “They are lying about what we’re asking to do.”
“We’ve made clear that federal law currently prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving comprehensive health care paid for by federal American tax dollars,” he continued. “And no one is asking to change that law, but what we are doing is making it clear that we need to protect the health care of the American people, which has been under relentless assault by the Republicans throughout this year.”
