President Donald Trump argued Wednesday that a federal law enforcement presence in New Orleans could solve the city’s crime problems in less than two weeks.
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump told reporters his administration was determining which city would be best to replicate the crime-fighting efforts it deployed in the District of Columbia. He’s threatened that Chicago is next, and in the past he has sent troops to Los Angeles.
“So we’re making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that has become quite tough, quite bad,” Trump said. “We will straighten that out in two weeks. It’ll take us two weeks, easier than D.C.”