Trump Suggests He Could Deploy Troops To New Orleans

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is weighing deploying federal troops to New Orleans next to crack down on crime.

Trump toldreporters in the Oval Office that he is trying to decide whether to send the National Guard to New Orleans or Chicago. Trump’s comments come after he announced Tuesday that he would send in the National Guard to help tackle crime in the Windy City.

“We are making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago? Or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that has become quite – quite tough, quite bad?” Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

“We’re going to be going to maybe Louisiana, and you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem,” Trump added. “We’ll straighten that out in about two weeks. It’ll take us two weeks, easier than D.C.”

In a Wednesday afternoon X post, Landry posted a video of the president’s comments and said Louisiana “will take President @realDonaldTrump’s help from New Orleans to Shreveport!”

The president announced on Aug. 11 that he was deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to help stamp out violent