The Atlantic's Tom Nichols accused Trump of using the military to "kill anyone" he wants and claimed that authority could be used by him to remain in.

And he is now saying, I am going to acclimate the American public to the use of military force anywhere I deem it. Appropriate under any circumstances, and I may well, the president may be thinking, I may well have us in a war by the time the elections roll around, which will enable me to say any opposition to me and my party is basically treason and unpatriotic.