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Trump to expand use of the National Guard to an additional city to help combat crime
The Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | Jeff Mordock

Posted on 09/09/2025 8:29:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

President Trump said Tuesday that he’ll expand his use of the National Guard to an additional city to help combat crime and unrest, adding that an announcement could be imminent.

“We’re going to be announcing another city that we’re going to very shortly, working it out with the governor of a certain state [who] would love us to be there and the mayor of a certain city,” Mr. Trump told reporters.

“We’ll announce it probably tomorrow and it’s going to be something we will do like we did here,” Mr. Trump said, referencing his deployment of the National Guard to Washington to curb violent crime in the city.

Mr. Trump declined to identify the city where he might dispatch the National Guard, but in the past has referenced Baltimore, Chicago and Portland as potential places to ramp up enforcement.

However, it is unlikely any of those cities because their mayors and governors have vehemently opposed the use of the National Guard.

Lawmakers from Louisiana, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, have suggested New Orleans was an ideal candidate for the National Guard. It’s a blue island in a heavily red state. Louisiana’s Gov. Jeff Landry, is a Republican.

So far, Mr. Trump has dispatched the National Guard to two cities, Los Angeles and Washington. D.C.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; crime; dystopia; grocerygasprices; nationalguard; thisisyourfuture; wasteofmoney
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1 posted on 09/09/2025 8:29:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

New Orleans has crime and governmental corruption.

Cleaning up the criminals will just leave the government thugs the whole area to abuse, without competition.


2 posted on 09/09/2025 8:33:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Do Portland!!!

Do it!

Please???


3 posted on 09/09/2025 8:35:56 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I’d love to see that, too.


4 posted on 09/09/2025 8:38:29 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

You see, if you do Portland, home to American Antifa, you get so many benefits!

Clean up a city.

Imprison Antifa leadership, which will riot in the streets against you.

Get the entire political class of a wacked out leftist state to go crazy against law enforcement.

Plus, I get a safer drive through to Clackamas County.


5 posted on 09/09/2025 8:38:53 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
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To: laplata

Memphis would bring great benefits to the manufacturing elements in the resuscitationof the American economy. IMHO


6 posted on 09/09/2025 8:41:04 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: epluribus_2

I agree. I think Trump and his team are doing this strategically.


7 posted on 09/09/2025 8:42:44 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump should only send troops to Red States with blue cities and stop the crime there.

He can then point to his successes and tell the long suffering residents of Blue States: “I can’t save you unless I am invited by your politicians. If you want be safe again, elect Republicans”.


8 posted on 09/09/2025 8:48:47 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Uncle Miltie

they have been leaving antifa alone

i think they are infiltrating

they want the funding


9 posted on 09/09/2025 8:49:53 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: epluribus_2
Memphis would bring great benefits to the manufacturing elements in the resuscitation of the American economy. IMHO

Governor Bill Lee (R) would likely approve.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young (D) would likely not be happy about this at all.

Plus, Trump would shake the allegations of only targeting blue states. There's plenty of cesspools in red states, little blue islands run like Congolese warlord kleptocracies.

10 posted on 09/09/2025 8:53:39 PM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

New Orleans, Miami, Tampa, Memphis, are all in red states.


11 posted on 09/09/2025 9:11:21 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: PTBAA
Trump should only send troops to Red States with blue cities and stop the crime there.

Like Tampa, Orlando, and Miami, Florida.

12 posted on 09/09/2025 9:15:23 PM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Looking forward to see which corrupt, crime-ridden, RAT run city will be next.


13 posted on 09/09/2025 9:23:50 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This may be a little long, but why do we need Military to do what the local police should be doing?
I have two possibility, Military is not unionized and Swat teams don’t have the same strict rules the military has.

If you violate the UCMJ in the military you’re screwed!
If you are an over Zealous cop, rarely nothing serious happens to you.

There is another issue. Police are not designed to prevent crime, just mess with “criminals” after the crime was committed.
Military is designed to prevent, not punish.

I’m done.


14 posted on 09/09/2025 10:41:57 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: MinorityRepublican

All good fun to make local policing federal and falling under the president who can override local control. But it won’t be so fun when a Newsome, or Biden declares a republican state to be a target and send in the military to start operating gun checkpoints etc.

DC is federal so that’s fine. But these others are questionable and bad in the long run.


15 posted on 09/10/2025 1:25:23 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: mass55th
Meanwhile, in NYC a double murder by a parolee that is getting very little attention...

NYPD issues dire warning as manhunt launched for ‘armed’ career criminal accused of torching, killing elderly NYC couple

It's too late for the Oltons.

16 posted on 09/10/2025 1:44:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hopefully the administration chooses Portland.

The white lefties out here who have been protesting ICE raids, will now have a new protest platform to further embarrass themselves.

It’ll also draw out antifa, they’ll start doing stupid stuff which should provide plenty of arrests and intelligence gathering on the communist network operating out of Portland.

“Faster, Please.”


17 posted on 09/10/2025 1:47:51 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: Uncle Miltie

God bless and protect
President Donald Trump

✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐


18 posted on 09/10/2025 1:57:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Have been in DC for 3 days, saw 2 National Guard guys in the metro system, none on the street. One guy had a sidearm that was it.


19 posted on 09/10/2025 4:33:07 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: MinorityRepublican
I still think this is the slippery slope we are on
bsg-quote
20 posted on 09/10/2025 4:48:29 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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