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lostincalifornia

(4,561 posts) Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:41 AM Sep 12

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 Sep 12 OP

I hear there's a lunatic lose in DC with 34 felony counts against him. Omnipresent Sep 12 #1

We still have national guard in DC IronLionZion Sep 12 #2

It looks like he Taco'd out of sending murielm99 Sep 12 #3

Another non-emergency. travelingthrulife Sep 12 #4

Memphis?? Mr.Bee Sep 12 #5

Memphis is 2/3 non white. Any Qs? twodogsbarking Sep 12 #6

Too bad we timms139 Sep 12 #7

He knows the Tennessee governor will not complain about it. Wonder Why Sep 12 #8

Expensive trash pickers Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 12 #9

All the posters here who kept asking why Trump didn't send the NG to Memphis finally got their wish MichMan Sep 12 #10

MaddowBlog-Trump announces plan to deploy forces to Memphis, claims it's 'deeply troubled' LetMyPeopleVote Sep 12 #11

Omnipresent

(7,222 posts)

1. I hear there's a lunatic lose in DC with 34 felony counts against him.

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:45 AM

Sep 12

Maybe someone should do something about him?

IronLionZion

(49,992 posts)

2. We still have national guard in DC

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:53 AM

Sep 12

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

murielm99

(32,366 posts)

3. It looks like he Taco'd out of sending

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:13 AM

Sep 12

them to Chicago. More people need to stand up to him.

travelingthrulife

(3,360 posts)

4. Another non-emergency.

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:17 AM

Sep 12

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

Mr.Bee

(1,258 posts)

5. Memphis??

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:23 AM

Sep 12

What Happened To Utah??

twodogsbarking

(16,000 posts)

6. Memphis is 2/3 non white. Any Qs?

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:58 AM

Sep 12

One-fourth of their people live in poverty.

timms139

(397 posts)

7. Too bad we

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:21 AM

Sep 12

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 .

Wonder Why

(6,222 posts)

8. He knows the Tennessee governor will not complain about it.

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 12:18 PM

Sep 12

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,129 posts)

9. Expensive trash pickers

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:25 PM

Sep 12

All for Krasnov's show

MichMan

(16,009 posts)

10. All the posters here who kept asking why Trump didn't send the NG to Memphis finally got their wish

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:17 PM

Sep 12

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,353 posts)

11. MaddowBlog-Trump announces plan to deploy forces to Memphis, claims it's 'deeply troubled'

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:00 PM

Sep 12

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 itâ€™s â€˜deeply troubledâ€™ 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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