Trump Suggests He Could Send Troops To New Orleans In Another Crime Crackdown

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump connected Wednesday suggested he could deploy national troops to New Orleans successful his latest threat to use nan national government to ace down connected crime successful a Democrat-run city.

“We’re going to beryllium going to possibly Louisiana, and you person New Orleans, which has a crime problem," Trump told reporters successful nan Oval Office. "We’ll straighten that retired successful astir 2 weeks. It’ll return america 2 weeks, easier than D.C."

Last month, Trump deployed thousands of National Guard members to Washington, D.C., and surged national rule enforcement, including nan FBI and separator patrol agents, there. He has besides many times threatened to nonstop National Guard troops to Chicago and Baltimore.

Trump said Wednesday that Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., “wants america to travel successful and straighten retired a very bully conception of this state that’s go quite, you know, rather tough, rather bad.”

In a post to X, Landry shared a clip of Trump's comments and welcomed nan move.

"We will return President @realDonaldTrump’s thief from New Orleans to Shreveport!" he said.

Representatives for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and nan New Orleans Police Department did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

Trump has said his determination to deploy nan National Guard to cities is portion of a move to conflict crime, but critics person based on that it is an overreach.

Last week, the president threatened successful a station to Truth Social to "send successful nan 'troops'" to Baltimore. Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., criticized nan threat, arguing that Trump "would alternatively onslaught his country’s largest cities from down a table than locomotion nan streets pinch nan group he represents."

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., accused Trump of wanting "to usage nan subject to inhabit a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and people governmental points."

Earlier this year, Trump deployed members of nan National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles successful consequence to protests against his migration policies. The Trump management deed a roadblock connected Tuesday erstwhile a judge ruled that nan White House, successful doing so, violated a rule that constricted nan expertise of nan subject to beryllium utilized for rule enforcement purposes.