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ARTICLE VIEW:
Trump celebrates Navy amid government shutdown, National Guard
deployments
By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated:
6:47 PM EDT, Sun October 5, 2025
Source: CNN
A government shutdown that could leave some military service members
without paychecks didn’t stop President Donald Trump from visiting
one of the largest naval installations in the world on Sunday to
celebrate the US Navy’s 250th birthday.
Trump told a large crowd of sailors in Norfolk, Virginia, that service
members will still be paid despite the government shutdown, which he
blamed Democrats for creating.
“We will get our service members every last penny. Don’t worry
about it,” Trump said to applause and cheers. The active-duty and
reserve military members in late September that they would not be paid
after September 30 until Congress approves funding for the agency,
according to a memo viewed by CNN.
He also announced support for “across-the-board pay raises for every
sailor and service member in the United States Armed Forces,” before
likening Democrats to a “gnat” above his and the Republican
Party’s shoulders.
“But, we have to take care of this little gnat that’s on our
shoulder called the Democrats,” he said. “They want to give all of
our money to illegal aliens that pour into the country.”
Trump was joined by first lady Melania Trump and Defense Secretary Pete
Hegseth, who each gave remarks.
The event is Trump’s latest effort to celebrate the US military ahead
of next year’s national semiquincentennial. He hosted a parade in
Washington over the summer to celebrate the Army’s birthday, though
he later voiced some private disappointment at aspects of the
spectacle.
The parade also fueled criticism that Trump, who had long called for
one, was politicizing the armed forces. Initially , it grew to the
largest display of military might in the nation’s capital in at least
three decades.
Throughout the Sunday speech, Trump’s political lines didn’t draw a
major response from the crowd. Most attendees watched politely, only
applauding at his references to the Navy’s strength and getting pay
raises for military members.
Trump also touted his deployment of the National Guard to US cities,
telling the sailors that he will send in “whatever is necessary” to
combat crime.
“You know what? We send in whatever is necessary. People don’t
care. They don’t want crime in their cities,” he said.
Trump has previously announced the authorization for hundreds of
National Guard members to deploy to Chicago; Memphis, Tennessee and
Portland, Oregon. On Saturday, a judge his plan to deploy troops to
Portland, but Trump quickly ordered the California National Guard to
deploy to Oregon instead. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has
announced plans to sue over the deployment.
Trump spoke Sunday alongside the USS Kearsarge and the USS Harry S.
Truman, the latter of which returned to Norfolk in June from a lengthy
deployment in the Red Sea battling Houthi rebels in Yemen.
There were no obvious signs that the government shutdown was affecting
the celebration as thousands of sailors in dress whites gathered to
hear from the commander in chief. Trump, writing on social media last
week, accused Democrats of trying to “destroy this wonderful
celebration of the U.S. Navy’s Birthday.”
Trump told military brass assembled last week at an unusual in-person
gathering in Quantico, Virginia, that the US wasn’t building enough
Navy ships — and that some of the ones they were building were
“ugly.”
“I’m a very aesthetic person, and I don’t like some of the ships
you’re doing aesthetically,” he told the group.
He said he was aiming to add more than a dozen ships to the Navy’s
fleet with an increase in military spending.
At the same event, Trump proposed using US cities as training ground
for the military. In the days since, he’s ramped up federal law
enforcement interventions in Portland and Chicago, against the wishes
of those cities’ leaders.
Sunday’s event — called “Titans of the Sea” — was intended to
showcase the Navy’s “cutting-edge fleet, and inspire the next
generation of warriors to carry America’s strength across every
ocean,” a release from the organizers said.
CNN’s Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Casey Gannon and Emily Condon
contributed to this report.
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