Posted on 09/12/2025 6:17:43 AM PDT by DFG
President Trump announced Friday that Memphis would be the next city to get a federal policing surge — and the second following Washington, DC.
“We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is that’s the next — deeply troubled and the mayor is happy. The Democrat mayor, the mayor is happy. And the governor, Tennessee, the governor is happy,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”
“Deeply troubled — we’re going to fix that, just like we did Washington. I would have preferred going to Chicago,” Trump said.
Trump said the move was pitched to him by a railroad executive, serving on the board of FedEx.
“He said, ‘When I walk one block to my hotel. They won’t allow me to do it. They put me in an armored vehicle with bulletproof glass to take me one block.’ He said, ‘It’s so terrible.'”
Trump added: “So we’re going to Memphis. I’m just announcing that now, and we’ll straighten that out, National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way, we’ll bring in the military too if we need it. But National Guard — but Memphis is, look, it’s a great music city, it’s, you know, home of Elvis and everything else.”
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Those are rookie numbers. I remember when we used to get triple digits every day.
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HAR!
so crime is coming down?
No they are reporting all of it. I live here.
EXCELLENT CHOICE
That’s great! Memphis needs it if my few visits there were any indication.
Good strategy...help the red states and let the blue states twist in the wind for now.
“No surprise. Memphis is a mess and FedEX is stuck there. Detroit is probably a lost cause.”
Detroit is rebounding. My son lives five minutes from Tiger Stadium. I went to visit him recently.
Dirty Harry approved.
The mayor’s press conference didn’t show him as “happy”, in fact he opposes use of the National Guard. He said he’d work with other assests if they provide him resources. He’s after $$, could GAS less about crime.
Good. Our governor, Bill Lee, is useless. He’s the worst since Bill Haslam, the last governor. Does nothing.
Since we moved to TN in 1990 the best governors were, hate to say it, Democrats.
I’m not sure Marsha Blackburn will ve any better. Heck, even Don “the tax terrorist” Sundquist was better than Lee.
Yep. On Dec 23rd 2020 we had a bad accident on I40 west at exit 1-F.
Bad. Almost died. Rented. Took Hertz forever to get another car. Black police officer was so nice. But told us not to stay around. I was so sore. Just wanted to crash. He said if we stayed around the airport the car would be gone.
His advice at Hertz (politely took us there with our bags) and waited with us. Said don’t get angry, the blacks that worked there will have attitudes.
He was up front with us about how horrible Memphis was. Asked him why he was a cop. Said was 2 years from full retirement.
MICHIGAN is a lost cause!
As anis any other city or county or state that has a large Moslem population and a democrat power structure!
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