NPR | Wednesday, September 3, 2025 
President Trump floats deploying National Guard troops to New Orleans

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 quite, you know, quite tough. Quite bad.” “We’ll straighten that out in about two weeks,” he said. “It’ll take us two weeks — easier than D.C. But we could straighten out Chicago — all they have to do is ask us.” Trump also floated sending National Guard to New York and Baltimore. He noted the Democratic governors’ opposition in those various cities and argued “the politicians are not in tune with the people.” While crime and safety are perennial voter concerns, most voters surveyed opposed Trump’s deployment of U.S. service members to the nation’s capital city, where the rate of violent crime — mirroring a national trend — continues to decline…Read More