* Bloomberg…
President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy federal troops to another US city, as he made a surprise visit to a Washington, DC, restaurant in a bid to argue his federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement is working.
“We’ll announce it probably tomorrow, and it’s going to be something where we will do like we did here,” Trump told reporters Tuesday outside Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, an upscale surf and turf restaurant near the White House.
The president said he was working with a governor “who would love us to be there,” though didn’t name the city, state nor politician he was in contact with. Trump earlier this month suggested he might deploy the National Guard to New Orleans, which is in a state that has a Republican governor, before his long-threatened operation in Chicago, where Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson have opposed such a move.
* The Hill last week…
President Trump announced Friday that he will soon be sending the National Guard to New Orleans after previously teasing that he would be targeting the city in his next federal crime crackdown.
“We’re going to come into New Orleans, and we’re going to make that place so safe,” Trump said during a Friday night event held in the White House’s newly renovated Rose Garden. “It’s got a little problem right now, a couple of headaches, like murders, a lot of little murders going on, and we’re not going to stand for it. And we’re going to come in, we’re going to clean it up.”
Trump’s confirmation that he’s planning to federalize New Orleans’ law enforcement comes days after he floated the idea. Trump on Wednesday said he was debating between sending Guardsmen into New Orleans, targeting a Republican-controlled state, or to Chicago.
“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’s become quite tough, quite bad,” Trump said Wednesday.
* Related…
* WaPo | National Guard documents show public ‘fear,’ troops’ ‘shame’ over D.C. presence: The National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., has assessed that its mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” and promoting a sense of “shame” among some troops and veterans, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The assessments, which have not been previously reported, underscore how domestic mobilizations that are rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ confidence in the men and women who serve their communities in times of crisis. The documents reveal, too, with a rare candor in some cases, that military officials have been kept apprised that their mission is viewed by a segment of society as wasteful, counterproductive and a threat to long-standing precedent stipulating that U.S. soldiers — with rare exception — are to be kept out of domestic law enforcement matters.
* NYT | One of Trump’s Powers Over D.C. Reaches a Time Limit. May Remain: At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, that particular intervention will end. The 30-day window that temporarily grants presidents great powers in the city’s affairs will come to a close, a moment that city officials and many residents have been looking to as a sort of deliverance after four surreal weeks. But it is unclear how much, if anything, will immediately change.
* AP | Judge pauses California’s request to bar Trump administration’s ongoing use of National Guard troops: A federal judge who ruled last week that the Trump administration broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area said Tuesday he will not immediately consider a request to bar the ongoing use of 300 Guard troops. In a court order, Senior District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said he was not sure he had the authority to consider California’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking the administration’s further deployment of state National Guard troops. That’s because the case is on appeal before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the judge said. Breyer indefinitely paused all proceedings related to the state’s motion, though he suggested California officials could file the request with the 9th Circuit.
Thoughts?
- Roadrager - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 9:49 am:
As a.country, we’ve long since become numb to the fact that Trump’s brain is a lukewarm porridge, but turns of phrase like “a lot of little murders going on” bring it to the forefront every now and again.
- Incandenza - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 9:49 am:
In this time, it’s perilous to draw simple conclusions without some hindsight. That being said, it seems like the vociferous, organized, and firm declaration of telling this president “no” right away, without any wavering, works. This is the playbook. The road of appeasement should be considered dead. See Harvard’s stand against the admin. vs. the capitulation of a university like Columbia.
As Timothy Snyder says “Do no obey in advance”
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 9:52 am:
JB was interviewed on NPR this morning. He touched on all of the important points.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5533120/pritzker-trump-chicago-troops
- Eric Zappa - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 9:53 am:
When JB first hit the stage, I was disgusted that a billionaire looked poised to buy our governorship.
I’m not one to like politicians or billionaires. But Pritzker is a good egg with a strong spine. I’ve never been so happy to have been wrong about someone.
- Crispy - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 9:57 am:
What @Incandenza said–strong, principled resistance apparently triggers TACO response.
- Norseman - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:04 am:
I hope he follows through with New Orleans. Landry would quickly learn the negative impact of the move on his businesses. I could be wrong and he wouldn’t care about messing with a blue city, but New Orleans tourism money has got to be a big money contributor to the state.
- Larry Bowa Jr. - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:21 am:
Republicans should absolutely send the military into New Orleans. It’ll be great for the local economy and will bring back wonderful memories of the last time the army was in the city.
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:22 am:
=and will bring back wonderful memories of the last time the army was in the city.=
Ouch babe.
- Socially DIstant Watcher - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:26 am:
Every time he deploys the national guard, everybody sees how expensive, disruptive (to the guard members and the deployment area both) and ineffective it is. And he can’t distract from the bad economic numbers forever; they just keep getting worse.
- Chito - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:27 am:
TACO
- H-W - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:48 am:
Missing is a discussion of DC. Clearly, more officers of the law on the streets has resulted in more arrests. Clearly. In addition, the appearance of U.S. Military troops on the streets has intimidated people, as well as criminals.
A show of force in Chicago (and Los Angeles) is a different beast, relative to the smaller cities of DC and New Orleans. The impact will probably be less in Chicago.
But more important, when such troops leave DC or New Orleans or Los Angeles of Chicago as they eventually will, the question is where do the crime rates go. They may return to the downward regression line that they have been pursuing for the past decade or two. Or they may rise higher before returning to that regression line. However, the idea that the presence of U.S. Military troops on U.S. soil temporarily policing U.S. cities will somehow have a long term effect is a weak hypothesis, unless those troops become regular fixtures.
- Taco Don Strikes Again - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:53 am:
Looks like punching the bully back works. Kudos to JB and his team for not just accepting that you have to work with a crazy man or that if you comply it won’t be that bad. When we write these chapters for the history books those who willingly complied will not be looked kindly upon.
- Jerry - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:58 am:
And if we have troops in the cities, taxes need to go up to pay for the War.
- Norseman - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 10:59 am:
Larry for the Win.
- Mason County - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 11:30 am:
I guess it is OK if the NG is used in cities but only if city officials approve it. The larger question is how long do tghey remain and what happens once they leave.
- Blue Dog - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 11:56 am:
I haven’t witnessed the deployment of the guard firsthand. but I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered.
- Big Dipper - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 11:57 am:
If cities need more police officers, the President and Congress could certainly see that appropriations are made for that purpose. Anything less is just grandstanding.
- Steve - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 11:59 am:
-When we write these chapters for the history books -
Members of the American Historical Association have always been non-Republican party voters since the New Deal. So there’s that.
- Excitable Boy - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:08 pm:
- but I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered. -
Are you really this dense? Have you ever heard of traffic?
Not to mention most people don’t want to see armed soldiers patrolling the streets as if we live in a third world dictatorship.
- Larry Bowa Jr. - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:09 pm:
“I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered.”
I don’t. There are worthwhile things money can be spent on. Soldiers pretending to be cops and ending up on litter detail in American cities because the president needs to distract everyone is not one of them.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:10 pm:
===Members of the American Historical Association have always been non-Republican party voters since the New Deal.===
Wow. All of them? I had no idea. Great insight Steve. Why hasn’t this been widely reported?
- Suburban Mom - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:17 pm:
===I haven’t witnessed the deployment of the guard firsthand. but I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered. ===
Did you miss the raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia, that was being built on Trump’s request that South Korean onshore manufacturing to the US, that arrested a whole bunch of South Korean nationals here on valid business visas to oversee aspects of plant construction?
They had warrants for 4 construction workers with Latino last names. They arrested 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, with engineering expertise, here on valid visas.
Of course as a law abiding citizen I’m terrified. Four warrants being used to arrest and detain 475 people who are here legally, citizens of a friendly nation, here at the behest of Trump? Who could be deported literally anywhere? Whose location and detention the South Korean government struggled to get information about from a secretive government agency? A friendly nation that has now advised all South Koreans to avoid travel to the US because of this?
- low level - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:26 pm:
== Members of the American Historical Association have always been non-Republican party voters since the New Deal. So there’s that.==
Do you have a source for that or is it your usual nonsense?
- Remember the Alamo II - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:26 pm:
=== but I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered. ===
You do realize that ICE is already snatching up US citizens in their immigrant based witch hunt, right? When federal law enforcement is already violating the rights of US citizens, why do you think that bringing in the National Guard would make those citizens feel any less “bothered”.
- Blue Dog - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:26 pm:
Mom. was that the Guard or IcE?
- BE - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:27 pm:
==Why hasn’t this been widely reported?==
Probably because Historians often get -college degrees- and that makes them suspect. -endsarcasm-
==I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered.==
I’m as law-abiding as the next person and I am very bothered by the idea that our president thinks it is okay to have our military occupying our cities, based solely on whether the mayor and possibly the governor of the state is a Democrat.
Because law-abiding military should follow the laws as well, like Posse Comitatus? Because ICE isn’t law-abiding, by not following due process? Because our Supreme Court has ruled that racial profiling on looks, language, accent or job you work is good enough to have ICE grab you and ask for your papers? All of those make me very bothered.
The quoted take feels like it comes from a very privileged place. Being ‘law-abiding’ does not save anyone from other people doing what they want to you. Every woman learns that by adulthood.
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:30 pm:
“ but I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered.”
I question why anyone wouldn’t be bothered. The federal government can’t even deal with its own responsibilities. Local law enforcement is not their job. Any self proclaimed libertarian or federalist should be especially outraged.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:31 pm:
Blue dog, honest question:
“What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?”
You’re old enough to remember.
- Bob - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:33 pm:
The military is for enemies of the state. When they’re deployed domestically, the citizens increasingly become the enemies of the state.
This is gradeschool civics.
- Blue Dog - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:39 pm:
Excitable Boy. my bad. I forgot about that traffic thing.
- Blue Dog - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:46 pm:
I’m pretty conservative in my old age. but for some reason, having the Guard around isn’t bothering me. when we have natural disasters, the guard is frequently called up. sometimes for security. sometimes for cleanup. sometimes for sandbagging. sometimes for traffic control. but I can respect those opinions thinking it may be political retribution.
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 12:52 pm:
=but I question why any law abiding citizen would be bothered.=
then…
=I’m pretty conservative in my old age..but I can respect those opinions thinking it may be political retribution.=
First, because the Constitution of the United States of America and the law commonly referred to as the “Posse Comitatus Act”.
If you are “conservative, you should value a comprehensive civics education.
There is no “maybe” about retribution btw.
- Excitable Boy - Wednesday, Sep 10, 25 @ 1:00 pm:
- having the Guard around isn’t bothering me. when we have natural disasters -
That isn’t at all comparable. In those cases they have a clear, humanitarian mission.
Policing US citizens is a completely different story.
- You’re old enough to remember. -
I’m not old enough to remember but got to see him play it at Northerly Island two weeks ago. The old man has still got it.