By Reagan Reese
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is sending the National Guard to crime-infested Memphis, Tennessee, next as a part of his country-wide crime crackdown.
Since launching his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., Trump has floated the idea of sending the National Guard into other cities to help with their crime problems. The president said they are going to be bringing the National Guard and “anyone else they need” to help clean up crime in Memphis.
“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 in an interview with Fox and Friends.
The president has frequently talked about going to Chicago next, but told the Daily Caller in an Oval Office interview that he wanted to be welcomed in by the city’s leaders.
Trump explained that he decided to go into Memphis because he had the head of Union Pacific talk to him about the crime problem in the city.
“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.
.@PressSec tells me that Trump is open to working with Red State governors to go into Blue Cities and fix crime issues… I give the example of Memphis, Tennessee. pic.twitter.com/jQBPh89s0Y
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) September 9, 2025
The Caller previously asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt if Trump would consider working with a red state governor to clean up blue city crime, and gave the example of Memphis, Tennessee.
“Democrats have tried to argue that red states have higher crime rates while overlooking problems of high crime in blue cities. I’m wondering if the President would consider working with red state governors to fix high crime in blue cities, like in Memphis, Tennessee,” White House correspondent Reagan Reese previously asked Leavitt.
“To answer your question, yes, the President wants to work with anyone across this country who wants to end these horrible policies and to bring law and order to our streets, and I think that is proven by his tremendous cooperation with the mayor of Washington, D.C., and our nation’s capital, and just look at the results of that,” the press secretary said after debunking Democrat talking points on crime.
