Trump: Chicago Was Preparatory Work For A “Surge” To Straighten Out Other Cities
President Donald Trump, at a White House press availability on Wednesday, said that sending the National Guard to Chicago was “just preparatory work” for sending them to other cities to “straighten it all out.”
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We’re just at the start. We’re going to go into other cities that we’re not talking about purposely. We’re getting ready to go in. And when they go in, like Cash is an example, told me that people didn’t even know. Five months ago, they went into Chicago, and they started doing a lot of work in Chicago. And we brought the numbers down a little bit. But that really was just preparatory work for what we’re going to do with the surge. We’re going to have a surge of strong, good people, patriots. And they’re going to go in, they straighten it all out. So a lot of these cities we’re already working on, but we don’t do it with a big flavor. But in a little while, you’re going to see some numbers that you’re not going to believe. And I think you’ll probably start with Memphis, because I’m hearing the numbers are much quicker than we even thought possible. But again, D.C., it speaks for itself. Chicago is going to be okay. We’re going to save Chicago. And I told you, and I told them, a very respected man, the head of the Union Pacific, said, Sir, save Chicago, it can be saved. And the way he said it was like, can you believe it? We’re trying to save Chicago. But I understood exactly what he wants. And that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to save all of our cities. And we’re going to make them essentially crime free, like other countries have crime free. If you go all over the world, you go to the way you hear Afghanistan and you hear all these different places. Our crime in certain cities is worse than anything they can even imagine. And we’re not going to have that any longer. It’s going to stop and it stops right here.
