Trump suggests he'll send troops to another city when D.C. crackdown ends

President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that he would send troops to other major U.S. cities after he had completed a crackdown on crime, homelessness, and illegal immigration in Washington, D.C.

He specifically suggested he might impose a similar crackdown on Chicago, Ill., one of America's most iconic cities.

"I really am honored that the National Guard has done such an incredible job working with the police, and we haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do, we have to," he said during an event in the Oval Office. "And after we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also."

"We're going to make our country very safe. We're going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a mess.," he added. "You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out. Probably next that'll be our next one after this, and it won't even be tough."

"And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come," he added. "They're wearing red hats, just like this one, but they're wearing red hats, African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, 'Please, President Trump, come to Chicago. Please.'"

Trump, this month, deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and assumed federal control of the city police department as part of a sweeping effort to crack down on crime in the nation's capital.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.