President Trump floats deploying National Guard troops to New Orleans

Franco Ordoñez

September 03, 2025 / 11:20 am

President Trump said his administration is considering whether to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago or a city with a governor who, he says, would welcome them, like New Orleans.

Illinois' Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, has strenuously objected to the potential deployment of troops to his state. Louisiana has a Republican governor, Jeff Landry, who posted on X following Trump's comments, saying he would take the president's help "from New Orleans to Shreveport!"

Speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said in Louisiana "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

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