Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) is tearing into President Donald Trump for suggesting that the military use some of the country’s “dangerous cities as training grounds.”

Speaking with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Bass accused Trump of “creating warfare within” major cities after he made the suggestion while meeting Tuesday with hundreds of senior U.S. military officials. Trump held the rare meeting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Quantico, Virginia.

“The statements that were made to the military yesterday, acknowledging that we are going to experiment with our cities and use our cities as training grounds for warfare, what that is saying is that the president of the United States wants to turn the U.S. military against the American people,” Bass said Wednesday, according to multiple outlets.

She added, “You are talking about creating warfare within cities, and again, I will point out, there’s something these cities have in common.”

Bass went on to suggest that “instead of using us as a test ground for the military,” the Trump administration is choosing “to cut programs that actually help to lower the violence and crime rate.”

Speaking at the meeting, Trump said, “I told [Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but our military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and President Donald Trump.

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“Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security,” he added.

Trump and Hegseth also outlined a myriad of impending changes to the armed forces that they argued will raise the standards of America’s combat troops.

Bass’s comments came after the Trump administration had drawn ire for sending National Guard troops to multiple Democratic-led cities it claimed were crime-ridden in an effort to curb crime and protect federal facilities.

Bass called Trump’s move “a chaotic escalation” and the “last thing our city needs” in a June 8 statement.

Early last month, a federal judge in California ruled that Trump’s deployment of the troops to Los Angeles this summer was illegal.

Bass further decried Trump’s deployment after the ruling, declaring that Los Angeles “will not break” nor “be defeated.”

“The White House tried to invade the second largest city in the country,” Bass said in a statement. “That was illegal. Los Angeles will not buckle and we will not break. We will not be divided and we will not be defeated.”