President Donald Trump announced that he is sending the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, as part of his crackdown on crime.
“I think maybe I’ll be the first to say it right now, again, we’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled, and the mayor is happy, he is a Democrat mayor, the mayor is happy, and the governor of Tennessee, the governor is happy, deeply troubled. We’re going to fix that, just like we did Washington,” Trump told Fox and Friends.
Describing a conversation he had with the head of Union Pacific, Trump said, “And I said, ‘What do you think, where should we go next? As a city? Cause we are going on, two, and then we will do a few at a time.’ He said, sir, Memphis would be good because, he’s on board of FedEx, ‘When I walk one block to my hotel, they put me in an armored vehicle with bullet-proof glass to take me one block.’ He said it’s so terrible,” the president said.
“By the way, we’ll bring in the military too if we need it, and the National Guard. But Memphis is, look, it’s a great Music City. It’s, you know, home of Elvis and everything else,” Trump added.
President Trump has also pledged to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson said of the matter, “The City of Chicago will not waver. We are Chicago. We will not bend or cower, and we will never break.”
