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lostincalifornia

(4,374 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:41 AM 19 hrs ago

Trump Sending National Guard to Memphis in Next Deployment

Source: Bloomberg News

President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy the National Guard to Memphis in the latest escalation of his administration’s efforts to crack down on what it casts as rampant crime in Democratic-run cities.

“We’re going to Memphis,” Trump said Friday in an interview with Fox News, adding that the city was “deeply troubled.”

The president said that the deployment had the support of Memphis mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, and would include “National Guard and anyone else we need.”

“We’ll bring in the military too if we need it,” Trump said, adding that “we’re going to straighten out the crime of these cities.”

The move follows Trump’s earlier decision to place the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, under federal control and order about 2,000 National Guard troops into the nation’s capital, as well as the deployment of troops into Los Angeles to assist immigration officials.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/trump-sending-national-guard-to-memphis-in-next-deployment

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Trump Sending National Guard to Memphis in Next Deployment (Original Post) lostincalifornia 19 hrs ago OP
I hear there's a lunatic lose in DC with 34 felony counts against him. Omnipresent 19 hrs ago #1
We still have national guard in DC IronLionZion 19 hrs ago #2
It looks like he Taco'd out of sending murielm99 18 hrs ago #3
Another non-emergency. travelingthrulife 18 hrs ago #4
Memphis?? Mr.Bee 18 hrs ago #5
Memphis is 2/3 non white. Any Qs? twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #6
Too bad we timms139 16 hrs ago #7
He knows the Tennessee governor will not complain about it. Wonder Why 15 hrs ago #8
Expensive trash pickers Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 14 hrs ago #9
All the posters here who kept asking why Trump didn't send the NG to Memphis finally got their wish MichMan 11 hrs ago #10
MaddowBlog-Trump announces plan to deploy forces to Memphis, claims it's 'deeply troubled' LetMyPeopleVote 7 hrs ago #11

Omnipresent

(7,183 posts)
1. I hear there's a lunatic lose in DC with 34 felony counts against him.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:45 AM
19 hrs ago

Maybe someone should do something about him?

IronLionZion

(49,868 posts)
2. We still have national guard in DC
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:53 AM
19 hrs ago

I saw a group of them patrolling last night at The Wharf, a low crime touristy area.

travelingthrulife

(3,209 posts)
4. Another non-emergency.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:17 AM
18 hrs ago

Trump is so hoping someone shoots one of those NG or one of the ICE thugs. The courts are helping him.

timms139

(387 posts)
7. Too bad we
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:21 AM
16 hrs ago

the people don't have an agency we can deploy to the capital and whitehouse to clean out the traitors and unqualified appointee's that are destroying the constitution .

MichMan

(15,871 posts)
10. All the posters here who kept asking why Trump didn't send the NG to Memphis finally got their wish
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:17 PM
11 hrs ago

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,519 posts)
11. MaddowBlog-Trump announces plan to deploy forces to Memphis, claims it's 'deeply troubled'
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:00 PM
7 hrs ago

The president would’ve “preferred” to send federal forces to Chicago, but after facing resistance, he’s settled on one of Tennessee’s largest cities.

Trump announces plan to deploy forces to Memphis, claims it’s ‘deeply troubled’ www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

@jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-09-12T21:41:14.784Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-announces-plan-deploy-forces-memphis-claims-s-deeply-troubled-rcna230787

The news was apparently a little late, but on Friday morning, Trump made an unexpected announcement during a Fox News interview. The Associated Press reported:

President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor. Trump, a Republican, said on Fox News Channel ‘the mayor is happy’ and ‘the governor is happy’ about the pending deployment. The mayor is a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican.


He said the city is “deeply troubled” and “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”

Trump: "Maybe I'll be the first to say it right now -- we're going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled. The mayor is happy. He's a Democrat. And the gov is happy. We're gonna fix that just like we did DC. I would've preferred going to Chicago ... we'll bring in the military too if we need it."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-12T12:25:50.332Z

By all appearances, this looks like a situation in which the president wanted to send troops into a Democratic-led city in a blue state, faced resistance and quickly pivoted to a Democratic-led city in a red state.

Indeed, Trump effectively said as much during his Fox News appearance, conceding, “I would’ve preferred going to Chicago.”....

The latest CBS News/YouGov poll found that a 58% majority of Americans are against the deployment of National Guard troops to American cities to address street crime. Evidently, that isn’t stopping the president or his administration.
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