President Trump declared Monday that he may invoke the Insurrection Act in order to restore law and order to American cities in the face of violent riots and attacks against law enforcement officers, including ICE.
During a press availability in the Oval Office, Trump addressed ongoing legal and political challenges to his administration’s deployments of National Guard troops to major U.S. cities, including Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
Trump was asked directly about invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807—a rarely used federal law that empowers the president to deploy U.S. military forces domestically to suppress insurrections, rebellions, or domestic violence when local authorities are unable or unwilling to maintain order.
The Act bypasses typical restrictions on military use for civilian policing and has been invoked only about 30 times in U.S. history, most recently during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Trump stated “Well, I’ll do it if it was necessary… We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I’d do that if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up. I want to make sure people aren’t killed.”
? WOW! President Trump says he is PREPARED to invoke the Insurrection Act, if necessary. pic.twitter.com/kz5GZlU09u
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025
"I'd do it if it was necessary…we have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If people were being k-lled, courts, governors, mayors hold us up? Sure, I'd do that. We…
“You look at what’s happening with Portland over the years, it’s a burning hell hole. And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that there’s no problem,” Trump added.
He emphasised that invocation “hasn’t been necessary” yet but remained “open” to it as a tool to override judicial blocks or local resistance, framing it as a protective measure rather than an aggressive one.
He also declared that most Americans in cities like Chicago and Portland are eager for troops to help keep them safe.
? JUST IN: President Trump drops a TRUTH NUKE
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025
"You have black women with MAGA hats on in CHICAGO! ALL OVER the place! They want the Guard to come in. They just want to be safe. And they really don't care [who comes in]. 'As long as we're safe.'"pic.twitter.com/HURFCConJm
The President’s full remarks are below:
Leftists immediately labelled Trump’s remarks a “threat to install a dictatorship,” while Illinois Governor JB Pritzker labeled it “outrageous and un-American.”
Pritzker is suing the administration, calling the Chicago deployment “an unconstitutional invasion,” while a federal judge in Oregon blocked National Guard deployment to Portland the day prior, describing it as turning troops into a “national police force.”
Illinois sues to block Trump’s deployment of National Guard in Chicago https://t.co/krKBlaYdaa pic.twitter.com/XpyrhfFVAR
— New York Post (@nypost) October 6, 2025
Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an executive order creating “ICE-free zones,” which the administration views as obstructing federal law enforcement.
The deployments are aimed at protecting federal property and addressing what the White House has described as “violent riots” and unrest tied to protests against federal immigration enforcement actions, such as mass deportations and ICE operations.
Federal judges had recently blocked some of these deployments, citing violations of laws like the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits military involvement in domestic law enforcement, prompting lawsuits from states like Illinois and Oregon.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke at length Monday on the effort to make America safe again.
“It’s a shame that we see in some cities across the country that their mayors are just simply refusing to cooperate because they don’t like Donald Trump. And that’s what this boils down to,”Leavitt urged.
Karoline Leavitt has an unbelievably raw moment when pressed about Trump’s plan to make America’s cities safe again.
— Vigilant Fox ? (@VigilantFox) October 6, 2025
A reporter challenged her on why the National Guard is still stationed in D.C., even though Trump called it “safe” again.
Leavitt countered the reporter’s… pic.twitter.com/mUTxSWewoH
She continued, “And I don’t think any American would disagree that Chicago needs more law enforcement reinforcements, that they need more resources.”
“Look at this headline from over the weekend: at least 30 people shot during the weekend in Democrat-run Chicago. Five of them were killed in one weekend. This is completely unacceptable. And the President wants to make American cities safer, and he’s willing to work with anyone to do it,” she further asserted.
Leavitt added, “The President wants to help these local leaders who have been completely ineffective in securing their own cities. And we have already seen there’s a positive formula for that. Look at Washington, D.C. — the murder rate has declined significantly.”
“Our streets are safer. People who live here feel safer. All of you in this room, I know you do — you just won’t admit it. And it’s a proven system that works. And the President wants to make American cities safe again. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that,” Levitt concluded.
Senior Trump aide Stephen Miller told the press that “If you can’t see that since we’ve taken office, there’s been an organised, systemetised campaign to delegitimatise, dehumanise, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in their duties, then I can’t persuade you of it, because you’re choosing not to see what’s right in front of your face!”
? 'You're choosing not to see what's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE!': Stephen Miller UNLEASHES on the media pic.twitter.com/G4ATmdHd9X
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025
"If you can't see that since we've taken office, there's been an organized, systemetized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede,…
Neither Levitt nor Miller were in the mood for any BS from the media, CNN in particular, regarding the matter.
Karoline Leavitt shuts down CNN’s Kaitlan Collins’ attempt to downplay the chaos in Portland.
— Vigilant Fox ? (@VigilantFox) October 6, 2025
Collins said she spoke to the Portland police chief, and that alone convinced her that Trump’s claims were wrong.
But Leavitt exposed Collins’ lazy journalism and hit back with a… pic.twitter.com/MJq0gimQ0n
? BREAKING – STEPHEN MILLER: "In Portland, ICE officers have been subjected to over 100 nights of TERRORIST ASSAULT, doxing, m*rder threats, violent attack, and every other means imaginable to try to overturn the results of the last election through VIOLENCE."
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025
"Since… pic.twitter.com/K70RI4FiCA
? JUST IN: Stephen Miller PUMMELS CNN host who downplayed the insurgency against federal agents.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025
CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?!
MILLER: "No! If anything, I'm understating the severity of situation!"
"Since the day we came in, ICE officers have been… pic.twitter.com/retN477sSf
? BREAKING: Stephen Miller is holding NOTHING back against this clueless CNN host.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025
CNN: It's just a demonstration that gets rowdy!
MILLER: They have a sniper on top of a building firing a high caliber rifle at an ICE facility because it's a 'demonstration?' And they are… pic.twitter.com/6e8urr3PW0
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The citizens have not been stressed out enough for him to do something that should have been done already.
Their plan is titled, “order out of chaos” let the violence go on until the people are willing to except anything to stop all of it, and out the door goes all freedom, and in the door comes dystopia.
Why not? To “save us all” from COVID and “Emergency” was declared, and the US Constitution was suspended, including the 1st Amendment of Free Speech and Religion. If that scam was an “Emergency” … then dozens of weekly shootings and murders in Chicago certainly is … an “Emergency”. Civilians in Gaza are safer than civilians in Chicago.
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LOL. It is Democrats who are killing each other, not MAGA.
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