President Trump's comments at a press conference on Labor Day confirmed that he is fully aware that a faction in the U.S. military and intelligence community is actively engaging in the ongoing coup against him. In pointed remarks against the “endless wars” initiated by the G.W. Bush and Obama administrations, he stated again that he would put an end to these wars, while identifying what former President Dwight Eisenhower famously called the "Military-Industrial Complex" (MIC) as responsible for entrapping the United States in such wars. He differentiated between the rank-and-file military, which he said support him, and the “top people in the Pentagon," who he said "want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs, and make the planes, and make everything else, stay happy." Describing the succession of wars since 9/11 as "One cold-hearted betrayal after another," he concluded by reiterating that "we’re getting out of the endless wars…. Let’s bring our soldiers back home.”