Donald Trump Is Turning The National Guard Into Another Private Army
National Guard Rapid Response Units bring the USA into a new era of history
By André Costa | October 30 2025
When a government begins to build layers of armed enforcement that operate between the official state and the public, history tends to take note, usually after it is already too late, and what we are now watching unfold inside the United States is the construction of something that seems so dangerously close to a private army under Donald Trump’s control, one that stretches from ICE to the National Guard and down into local law enforcement through the familiar and quietly sinister 287(g) agreements that allow local police to act as immigration officers.
Now, new “Quick Reaction Forces” would be trained and stationed in every state and U.S. territory, each comprising up to five hundred National Guard troops prepared for “crowd control” and “detainee management” using non-lethal weapons. On paper it sounds like an exercise in preparedness, but in reality it represents the formal militarization of domestic protest suppression, a federal template that blurs the line between civilian policing and military response, giving the executive branch a ready-made instrument of control.
The National Guard, once conceived as a state-controlled defense reserve, can now be switched between state and federal command at will, an ability that has always existed in theory but rarely carried such clear political motive as it does now. We have already grown use to seeing this regime abuse their power with the Nationl Guard in Illinois, D.C. and elsewhere, while mistrust of the use of the Guard is growing.
Under Title 32, Guard units are technically under the authority of state governors, yet under Title 10, the president can federalize them instantly, effectively transforming them into a domestic army bound only to his command.
The Insurrection Act of 1807, which the Trump regime is desperate to implement, grants near-total discretion to deploy troops inside the United States under the vague banner of restoring order, and when combined with emergency powers baked into the National Defense Authorization Acts and the Homeland Security framework, the stage is set for a scenario where governors, courts, and even Congress are bypassed entirely, an absolute dream to the authoritarians in the White House.
Should it be implemented, the use of the National Guard as a private army for the USA’s chief pedophile would be possible with a mere piece of paper, and would not have a filter of checks and balances.
ICE has already proven how this machinery operates in practice. Over the last year it has evolved from a troubled immigration enforcement agency into a political instrument, emboldened by Trump’s racist authoritarianism. The agency’s scope has expanded far beyond border regions, embedding itself inside local law enforcement through 287(g) programs that effectively deputize sheriffs and police departments to carry out federal immigration arrests. These partnerships, which Trump has celebrated as models of “community cooperation,” have turned county jails and small-town police forces into extensions of a national deportation system. The regime has further consolidated control by placing loyal operatives inside ICE leadership, replacing those who objected to unlawful detentions, and shielding the agency from oversight.
Now, with the National Guard’s new Quick Reaction Forces, the same logic applies on a much larger scale. The “Quick Reaction” framework is the militarized twin of 287(g), a nationwide web of rapid-response units bound by loyalty, not national security.
By embedding this readiness into the Guard, Trump’s regime creates a semi-permanent domestic force that can be deployed against protests, labor strikes, or civil demonstrations under the veil of unrest. ‘Unrest’ to this regime, has amounted to protests that Trump dislikes, unarmed teenagers standing their ground, and inflatable frog suits, showing that this force is unlikely to be used for law enforcement, but for oppression of decent.
It is hard to overstate how dangerous this is, the separation between civilian government and military power is collapsing into a new kind of authoritarian infrastructure. ICE would operate as the internal intelligence and enforcement branch, the National Guard would provide muscle under federal control, and local law enforcement bridges the two through voluntary collaboration.
The Pentagon’s “Quick Reaction Forces” memo is the blueprint for federalizing domestic force projection, it promises readiness for unrest by January, which conveniently aligns with the administration’s schedule of political crackdowns and election-year demonstrations. The same regime that purged federal agencies of career officials and replaced them with ideological loyalists is now laying the groundwork for nationwide military-police coordination, a command chain that runs cleanly from the Oval Office to the streets. To students of history, this will all remind them of Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Saddam’s Iraq, and a host of other dictators across time.
A protest, or indeed anything the regime claims is a protest, could now trigger local police cooperation under 287(g), ICE involvement under immigration pretexts, and a National Guard deployment under federal authority, all without any new law being passed. Together they would form a single, vertically integrated response to dissent. That is suppression, regardless of what your political views may be, you must be aware of the danger at hand.
The phrase “private army” may sound hyperbolic, but it really is not hyperbole. Loyalty is replacing law as the binding principle of armed forces, the distinction between public defense and private power ceases to exist. These Rapid Response Forces would be enforcers defending a president. And once that framework is built, it will not disappear with the next election, should it happen, it will remain, institutionalized, available for use by whoever comes next.
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Ice (Trumps masked gestapo), National Guard against its citizens, A Fascist Supreme Court. Ruled by a want to be dictator. Support that, no thanks!
Ice (Trumps masked gestapo), National Guard against its citizens, A Fascist Supreme Court. Ruled by a want to be dictator. Support that, no thanks!