President Donald Trump said Wednesday that New Orleans is among cities he is considering using the National Guard to patrol the streets.
"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's become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad," the president said during a news conference.
"You have New Orleans, which has a crime problem. We'll straighten that out in about two weeks. It'll take us two weeks," he said.
New Orleans crime rate so far this year is the lowest it has been in decades.
Posting on his X account, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry expressed his support of Mr. Trump's comments:
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