Trump's plan to create Guard units to quell civil unrest alarms experts

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

August 25, 2025, 6:52 PM


President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the Pentagon to create National Guard units in Washington, D.C., and across the country that would be designated to tamp down civil protests and ensure public safety -- a job that historically and legally has belonged to civilian law enforcement.

Critics called Trump's desire to build a kind of rapid "reaction force" for civil unrest alarming, insisting his order pushes legal boundaries for the National Guard, an auxiliary force whose mission is to help fight foreign enemies abroad or aid Americans in times of extraordinary crisis like hurricanes and floods.

In an executive order signed Monday, Trump called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to designate Army and Air National Guard members in each state who could rapidly deploy to help federal, state and local law enforcement "in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under the law."

The order also called on Hegseth to begin immediately training and equipping a "specialized unit" within the D.C. National Guard "that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation's Capitol." The order says members of the unit would be "deputized" to enforce federal law.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-calls-guard-units-tasked-quell-civil-unrest/story?id=124962350

[underpants]

1. Isn't ICE going to have a budget larger than the FBI DEA & ATF combined?

[Lovie777]

2. By that time shithole will be threatening congress for more tax payer's................

money because I believe he has damn near sucked 150 billion up into several GQP's pockets including his too.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I heard today that it's larger than the U.S. Marines. Sounds like he's targeting protests...

[underpants]

4. Mostly yes.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/08/trump-ice-budget-marines/

[NotHardly]

17. Thee NAZI are here wearing National Guard uniforms

[twodogsbarking]

5. I really though Trumpo would have done this first time around, like Hitler, only stinkier.

[IronLionZion]

6. He wants protests so badly

as an excuse to inflict violence on Americans and probably stop people from voting in the next elections.

[Paladin]

8. Big national protests are overdue.

I wish it were otherwise, but I'm coming around to feeling that nothing's going to get any better until we take to the streets, coast-to-coast, and demand the re-establishment of our democracy. Ugly, but necessary. It's on the American public to end this nightmare---no way in hell are our politicians or our chickenshit media going to save us.

[IronLionZion]

9. It has to be big enough that he can't squash it through force and brutality

the small ones are going to get it hard.

[Paladin]

10. Agreed. The bigger and more often the protests, the better.

Like all bullies, trump and his goons are actually cowards. They need to be revealed as such, to the extent that even their moronic followers can't support them anymore.

[EndlessWire]

13. I agree with this. n/t

[slightlv]

21. I agree with you... and by necessity it has to be

in all states nationwide- not just a "march on Washington", for example. Most people can't take enough time off work to plan a trip to DC, participate, and get back to work. Also, many more than that simply can't afford it, regardless of the transportation type they use.

More than anything, however, we would need media to actually COVER these nationwide protests! And this is what is our downfall. We had great participation on "No Kings" protests, but actually very little coverage. The media has been bought, paid for, or cowed into submission where showing news not approved by the dictator is concerned.

[mopinko]

7. good luck getting ppl to sign up.

i wonder how long it will take for enlistment in the guard, particularly, to tank.
the army is already struggling to fill boots. is he gonna start drafting ppl for his goon forces?

[slightlv]

22. No one is talking about what all this "activation"

of the National Guard is doing to the guardsmen, their families, or their jobs.

[LeftinOH]

11. Deliberately stirring up civil unrest in order to justify quelling civil unrest..

[Maine-i-ac]

12. Seeking design bids for new Brown Shirts to go with their Red Hats.

[republianmushroom]

14. If trump really wants to quell unrest

all he has to do is die.

[Martin68]

15. Trump is trying to create Brownshirt militias and SS shock troops to do his bidding and punish dissent.

[Martin68]

16. The National Guard was originally formed to put down civil insurrections against the government. There were several

in the early days of the Republic. The irony is that Trump refused to call in the National Guard to quell his own insurrection, but is planning to use the NG prevent legal peaceful public demonstrations against his policies.

[artemisia1]

18. He needs his own SS. Hitler got one, so why shouldn't he? (SARCASM) /nt

[mkp]

19. When is the dictator gonna make Mexico pay for that wall

I'll bet Mexico wishes Greenland would pay it for them

[orangecrush]

20. "Alarming"

"Chilling"

"Concerning"

Call it everything but what it is.