Source: Common Dreams
by George Cassidy Payne
“At Quantico this week, US President Donald Trump addressed the nation’s top military leaders and delivered a statement that might have sounded like a joke: ‘If you do not like what I am saying, you can leave the room, of course there goes your rank and your future.’ Generals and admirals, mostly white men with a handful of women and people of color, laughed — some nervously. Yet beneath the levity lies a profound departure from established norms. Loyalty to the Constitution was implicitly optional; loyalty to him was emphasized as paramount. Obey, or be discarded. This was not overtly menacing, but the danger lay in the implications — a subtle drift toward personal allegiance rather than institutional fidelity.” (10/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-ultimatum-military