Updated August 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM EDT

Chicago political leaders are slamming a suggestion made by President Trump late last week that he may soon send National Guard troops to the streets of the Midwest metropolis in order to combat crime.

Earlier in August, Trump deployed hundreds of National Guard members to Washington, D.C., as part of what he touted as an effort to reduce crime and root out homelessness. That's despite the fact that Mayor Muriel Bowser has said that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest level in 30 years.

Speaking to reporters Friday in the Oval Office, Trump said he wanted to take that approach to other U.S. cities, including New York and Chicago.

"Chicago's a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out probably

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