President Donald Trump joined Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” Friday morning, where he announced that the next U.S. city to see a National Guard presence will be Memphis, Tennessee.
“Maybe I’ll be the first to say it right now again, we’re going to Memphis,” he said. “Memphis is deeply troubled and the mayor is happy, the Democrat mayor, the mayor is happy. And the governor, Tennessee, the governor is happy.”
“Deeply troubled,” Trump continued. “We’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”
Trump said he would have preferred to have gone to Chicago, but it appears his administration has shifted gears after sharp pushback from Chicago’s mayor and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
While Trump was able to send the National Guard to Los Angeles earlier this year by declaring protests as an