Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show, you daily dive into the news. And today, we've got about seven things we need to talk about, starting with this. Trump just threatened to send now multiple branches of the military to U.S. cities against their will. Because yesterday, Trump delivered an hour-long rambling speech before U.S. troops in Japan, during which he spent a lot of time bragging about his achievements. And at one point he was discussing all the cities that he thinks are crime-ridden and how his deployment of the National Guard in those places has made them perfect crime-free utopias, with him then going on to say, People don't care. If we send in our military, if we send in our National Guard, if we send in Space Command, they don't care who the hell it is. They just want to be safe.

We have cities that are troubled. We can't have cities that are troubled. And we're sending in our

national guard. And if we need more than the national guard, we'll send more than the national

guard because we're going to have safe cities. We're not going to have people killed in our cities.

And whether people like that or not, that's what we're doing.

With that, Trump did not elaborate. But when questioned about his comments during a press gag on Air Force One today, we saw this.

What did you say last night when you said you were prepared to send forth on the National Guard into Farragans cities?

Sure, I would. I would do that. It was necessary. You know, I had been necessary to do that, but it hasn't been necessary.

We're doing a great job without that.

It was necessary.

As you know, I'll have to do that.

Do you have the branches of the military who would send it or?

Who are you with?

The New York Times.

I hope you're right it correctly, I'll give the answer.

But you know, I want to enact a certain act.

I'm allowed to do it routinely.

Whether about 50% of presidents have used that, as you know, and I'd be allowed to do whatever I want but we haven't

chosen to do that because we're very well we're doing very well with that but I'd be allowed to do that

you upset and the courts wouldn't get involved nobody would get involved and I could send the

army navy airport brains I can say send anybody I wanted I'm sorry I let him talk to you unattended for so long. So, few things to break down. So first of all, the act that he's referencing appears to be the Insurrection Act. It's that centuries-old statute that allows the President to deploy active-duty troops for civil policing purposes when there is a rebellion or widespread public unrest. And specifically, the act allows the president to send in those shrews when a state government request it, or if the president declares that the unrest is obstructing the enforcement of federal law. And if you watch a show or you've paid attention to the news, you're familiar at this point. Trump has floated this idea over and over again. But, very key thing, he is wrong or lying or is lied to and is just regurgitating, that this is something that's been routinely used by about 50% of president. In all of our history, it's been used by just 17 presidents, so you're talking about 37%, but also the act has only been invoked 30 times, so it's not common, especially in modern times. In fact, it's only been used three times in the last half a century. Right, the last time it was used at all was more than 30 years ago during the Rodney King riots. Right. So Trump did decide to pull the trigger. It would be absolutely massive, especially because countless legal experts and leaders in the cities that Trump has targeted all agree that there is nothing actually going down right now that's even close to the level of public unrest that is historically used to justify invoking the act.

But for now, we're going to have to see what Trump does, right? Does he follow through on this threat? Or is he just saying stuff because he wants to intimidate and threaten? But the next up today, if you're active on social media, there's a good chance that you've seen one of these kind of slick video montages routinely put out by the Trump administration. In Washington, as left-wing politicians choose to sit back in their posh taxpayer-funded offices,

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