CHICAGO — President Donald Trump Monday revived his threat to sending National Guard troops to Chicago after weeks of issuing conflicting statements on his administration’s plans for the city.

The president made the remarks Monday during an Oval Office ceremony in which he signed an executive order to send a task force of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement agents to Memphis — a plan Trump described as a “replica” of his administration’s deployment of troops to Washington, D.C. last month.

“We’re going to be doing Chicago probably next,” Trump told reporters, before twice telling a story about a “very high quality” yet unnamed businessman who urged him to “save Chicago.”

“We’re going to wait a little while but we’re going to save Chicago,” Trump said. “We can’t let it go.”

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