In-town pool report #5: Trump comments on National Guard
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- Nik Popli
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- Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 3:57 PM
POTUS was joined by FBI Director Kash Patel, AG Pam Bondi, and deputy AG Todd Blanche.
His opening remarks largely focused on crime in American cities. He said the “surge” is coming into Chicago.
On deploying the National Guard in American cities: “This is an amazing thing, and 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.”
“Five months ago, they went into Chicago…and we brought them 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 get to go in, they straighten it all out.”
“I think you'll probably start with Memphis, because I'm hearing the numbers are much quicker than we even thought possible.”
On Chicago, he added: “The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"
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