Trump: Troops Must Pass ‘Toughness Test,’ Won’t ‘Barge in on a City’

President Donald Trump on Monday said his military deployments to combat crime and homelessness in U.S. cities rely on specially selected troops who pass a “toughness test,” while stressing he doesn’t want to “barge in on a city” without being asked.

“I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “In a certain way, we should wait to be asked because they have cities that are so out of control.

“So we go in and fix it, they take the full credit for it, and they don’t say that we’re there with very tough people, by the way. They have to pass a toughness test, otherwise they’re not working for us.”