President Donald Trump is planning to speak in Fort Bragg on Tuesday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army while using the army in an attempt to calm up immigration protests in Los Angeles.
Fort Bragg, located near Fayetteville, North Carolina, serves as a head office for Special Operations Command of US Army. Highly educated units such as the Green Berets and the Rangers are located there.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will also be at Tuesday’s event, together with service members, veterans and their families.
Trump has promoted the army of the army as a reason to hold a military parade in Washington, DC, who is also his 79th birthday on Saturday. Tanks and other vehicles roll off the streets of the city in a memory of how the Republican President reforms the forces after his return to the White House this year.
Trump, who sees the army as a critical tool for domestic goals, has used the recent protests in Los Angeles as an opportunity to use the National Guard and the American Marines to suppress disruptions that started as protests on immigration raids.
Trump has authorized the use of 4,000 soldiers of the National Guard in the city for the objections of the Democratic Californian government Gavin Newsom. About 700 Marines would also be used formally in Los Angeles.
California has sued Trump because of the bet, in which the attorney general of the State claimed that the president had “trampled” the sovereignty of the state. The leaders of California accused Trump of fueling the anger of demonstrators, allowing crowds to block a large highway and set fire to self -driving cars.
“We are going to have troops everywhere,” Trump said this weekend. “We are not going to let this happen to our country.”
Fort Bragg has been in the middle of a cultural tug of war over the army. It was named after a southern general and then renamed Fort Liberty two years ago.
Hegseeth brought the Bragg name back, but said it was used to honor a parachutistic parachutists who served in the Second World War.
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