Trump announced that he will send the National Guard to Memphis

Donald Trump announced contiguous that helium volition deploy National Guard units to Memphis, Tennessee (southern US), arsenic portion of his anti-crime combat that targets large Democrat-controlled cities crossed the country.

“We’re going to Memphis. Memphis has a batch of problems. The politician is blessed being a Democratic politician (…). We’re going to enactment this retired similar we did successful Washington,” the US president said successful an interrogation with Fox News tv network, referring to the deployment of national soldiers and constabulary officers to the superior past month.

“They’ll recognize wherefore we telephone the Pentagon a Department of War”

It should beryllium noted that precocious past week, Trump had threatened Chicago with military intervention, citing the caller sanction of the Pentagon, present called the “Department of War.”

“I emotion the odor of deployments successful the morning. Chicago volition recognize wherefore we telephone it a War Department,” said successful a station connected Truth Social Trump, who has threatened for respective days to nonstop successful national troops to “attack crime.”

The station includes a photo, created by artificial intelligence, showing Trump successful a subject uniform, with a inheritance of wildfires and a chopper flying successful the orangish Chicago entity – portion the caption reads “Chipocalypse Now”. It’s a nonstop notation to Francis Ford Coppola’s movie “Apocalypse Now” astir the Vietnam War, with a paraphrase of Robert Duval’s celebrated line: “I similar the odor of deportations successful the morning.”

Prior to this, the US president had said helium mightiness nonstop the military to New Orleans arsenic well.

Ban connected Trump’s determination to deploy National Guard to California

Recall, however, that earlier this month, a national justice ruled to prohibition the deployment of the National Guard successful California, to combat crime.

The bid was issued by San Francisco-based District Judge Charles Breyer, based successful the Northern District of California.

Trump ordered successful June that 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 active-duty Marines beryllium deployed to Los Angeles, aft protests implicit large-scale raids to detain immigrants successful the second-largest US city.