https://www.axios.com/2025/09/30/trump-hegseth-quantico-maga-speech-quotes😊🇺🇸🇺🇸President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a rare gathering of the country's highest-ranking military officials to outline their vision for a cultural and operational military reset on Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

Why it matters: That reset, which Trump's team has been laying the groundwork for since before he took office, included making the military culture "MAGA-friendly."

During speeches, Trump used crime as a pretext to deploy troops to Democratic-led cities. Hegseth, meanwhile, said he wants the U.S. military free of its "woke" shackles.

Here are direct quotes from their Quantico speeches.

Trump told military leaders that troops should use "dangerous" American cities as "training grounds." He floated the idea of using the D.C. playbook for Chicago and Portland....more💥