Trump to attend meeting of generals and admirals at Quantico
Source: Washington Post (link may be behind paywall(
President Donald Trump has decided hes going to the last-minute global gathering of the nations top generals that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last week, he said Sunday, setting the stage for a highly unusual meeting between the commander in chief and top U.S. military leaders.
Trumps appearance at a Marine Corps base in Virginia not only overshadows Hegseths planned address but adds new security concerns to the massive and nearly unprecedented military event, which has required some generals and admirals to travel thousands of miles. Trump cast the discussion largely as a pep talk.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/28/trump-hegseth-speech-generals-quantico-security/
I'm a retired Army officer, I dare not comment on this further descent into dictatorship.

BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,360 posts)
Irish_Dem
(75,408 posts)paleotn
(20,947 posts)in their imaginations.
Compared to those people who've accomplished much in life, Whisky Pete is a bug.
soldierant
(8,965 posts)how much history they know.
July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer, Hodges said in his post. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.
Source
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/hegseth-mocks-ex-general-comparing-meeting-of-generals-to-nazi-loyalty-test
Irish_Dem
(75,408 posts)They have read military history.
Most of them most likely know exactly what might happen.
In fact they probably have advance warning.
US military has excellent intelligence services.
ananda
(33,344 posts)...
odins folly
(480 posts)For one minute that this wasnt the plan all along
.
Shitbag would never pass up an opportunity to be in front of all the heads of the services and make them listen to his blathering
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mdbl
(7,447 posts)Or has he finished all that already?
kimbutgar
(26,136 posts)And calls us suckers and losers. Any military person should be angry and ashamed to have to appear before him. Will the orange turd declare war on liberal Americans and order the generals to attack American citizens who dont worship the orange pedo felon?
This Epstein thing is really getting under his skin and hes getting more deranged everyday with Miller ghost whispering him to light the fires of hate and division.
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,297 posts)paleotn
(20,947 posts)I took it long ago. So did they. I hope they take it as seriously as I did as a lowly enlisted squid.
eringer
(499 posts)I hope he shows up in his old military high school uniform.
https://share.google/images/CqCN43UI5pjZYQgr2
PurgedVoter
(2,612 posts)It could also turn into his talking about how his avoiding venereal disease was just like serving in Vietnam and end up with Krasnov getting angry that they didn't give him medals.
The first thing Krasnov is going to want is to hear every general heaping praise.
Krasnov has convinced me that Kafka was an optimist.
Glorious bastard
(45 posts)The possible implications of all top military brass assembled in one place and Trump taking charge of the event scares the crap out of me.
Lucky Luciano
(11,758 posts)Marie Marie
(10,561 posts)plastic soldiers we all played with as kids so now he wants to play with the big real ones.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,165 posts)
ReRe
(12,038 posts)When I read the news of this supposed "secret" meeting, I KNEW Trump would be there. I KNEW IT!!! He'll be there to tell them to kill Americans in the fuucking streets if they step out of line, if they protest too loud or curse too much or step over a visible or invisible barrier. He's going to tell them that he wants to see dead bodies piled up in the streets.
What. Will. The. Generaals. Do?
That is the question.
2naSalit
(97,893 posts)Attendees should do is arrest both the orange maniac and the drunken poser and follow the edict in place for "when the government cannot govern" and get on with ridding the world of these criminals in power. There is a plan for when we find ourselves here and it should be carried out by these top brass attendees. They have a duty to the Constitution to do so.
ReRe
(12,038 posts)The Constitution is what comes first in this country, not the lowest example of a CIC in the 250th year of our history. This entire evil production has gone on far too long and must be stopped once and for all. That millions of people have lived and died here (and everything in between) can not have been for naught. If duty ever called, it's calling now.
RazorbackExpat
(622 posts)After all, that's the preferred costume of banana republic dictators