(The Hill) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated New Orleans as the next city that could be set for a federal crime crackdown, leaning toward a Republican-controlled state as a target.

“We’re 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's become quite tough, quite bad,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

The president, while taking questions beside Polish President Karol Nawrocki, said federal law enforcement can curb crime in New Orleans faster than they have in Washington, D.C., where troops were sent weeks ago.

“So we’re going to maybe Louisiana, and you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem.

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