Despite backlash from all levels on the left, President Donald Trump used his military authority to deploy National Guard troops to the streets of Washington D.C. to help local law enforcement clean up the city's obvious crime problem.
Now that it's clear that such assistance is highly beneficial to local and state cops, according to the Daily Caller, President Trump has announced where he will soon be sending the next batch of National Guard units.
During an interview on "Fox & Friends," President Trump expressed his willingness to deploy the National Guard wherever the country needs it in order to crack down on crime, and Memphis, Tennessee, could be the next stop.
The president was adamant that he would deploy whatever assets necessary to help quell the city's crime problem, which is on par with what Washington D.C. was dealing with.
As he usually does, President Trump held nothing back when detailing his plans regarding sending in the troops wherever the need arises.
"I think maybe I’ll be the first to say it right now, again, we’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled, and the mayor is happy, he is a Democrat mayor, the mayor is happy, and the governor of Tennessee, the governor is happy, deeply troubled. We’re going to fix that, just like we did Washington," Trump said.
Reports surfaced earlier this month that Trump was set on sending troops into Chicago, but wanted the city's leaders to welcome the idea first.
Instead, he explained why he and his administration landed on the idea of going into Memphis after talking to the head of Union Pacific.
“And I said, ‘what do you think, where should we go next?’ as a city? Cause we are going on, two, and then we will do a few at a time. He said ‘sir, Memphis would be good because, he’s on board of FedEx, ‘when I walk one block to my hotel, they put me in an armored vehicle with bullet-proof glass to take me one block.’ He said it is terrible," the president said.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just announced he will be sending the National Guard into MEMPHIS
Both the Republican Governor AND the Democrat Mayor are happy with this
"We're bringing in the National Guard... and the military, if we need it." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/25fB6IopLu
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 12, 2025
Users across social media chimed in on the idea of National Guard troops being deployed to crime-ridden Memphis.
"Make Memphis Great Again!" one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "So Memphis will be a good vacation spot in a few months."
It'll be interesting to see if Trump gets similar results in Memphis as he did in the nation's capital.
