President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Monday to deploy U.S. National Guard troops into Tennessee to "restore law and order" in the city of Memphis.

The move comes one month after the president sent the National Guard into Washington, D.C.

"Today, at the request of Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee, who's standing with us as you know, I'm signing a presidential memorandum to establish the Memphis Safe Task Force and it's very important because of the crime that's going on not only in Memphis, but in many cities and we're going to take care of all of them," Trump said.

"Just like we did in D.C. We have virtually no crime in D.C., right now and we're going to keep it that way. It's our nation's capital," Trump added, before announcing "Chicago is probably next," as well as St. Louis and New

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