BREAKING: Trump Orders National Guard to Memphis, Addresses Reporters from Oval Office #News
President Donald Trump is continuing with his pledge to send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime. During a meeting in the Oval Office, the President acknowledged that plans have moved away from Chicago, for now at least.
Trump, joined by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, signed an order on Monday sending the National Guard into Memphis. The President called what's coming a "replica of our extraordinarily successful efforts" in Washington.
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00:00And we brought down crime a little bit in Chicago, but we're now going to bring it down very big.
00:05We're going to be doing Chicago probably next.
00:07I was with a great businessman, a man who was involved in all cities through his business.
00:13And I say, who do you think should be next after Memphis City?
00:16He said, sir, you've got to save Chicago.
00:21We're going to wait a little while.
00:23But he said, you've got to save Chicago.
00:25You can't let it go.
00:26And this is a very prominent man that everybody knows in this room.
00:30Another man in Memphis was saying, Bill, he was saying, very interesting, he's on the board of FedEx.
00:36And his hotel is about a block away.
00:39And he said, when I walk there, I said, you know, I don't want to do this again.
00:44I never want to do it again.
00:45And they won't let me walk there.
00:47They take him in armored vehicles.
00:49They take the board members of FedEx in armored vehicles like a block away to the hotel.
00:54Well, this shouldn't be the U.S.
00:56This shouldn't be the United States of America.
00:59The task force will be a replica, as I said.
01:02And it's going to be, I think, equally successful.
01:05This is a tremendous success we've had in Washington, I can tell you.
01:09And everyone knows it.
01:10And people in the White House that work here and other people that I know are calling me and thanking me.
01:14They're going out to dinners.
01:16They're doing things that they haven't done in years.
01:18The effort will include the National Guard as well as the FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Marshals, and more along the prosecutors.
01:31We're going to have DOJ, led by a U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, who is here or not here?
01:39Who's that person here?
01:41That person is going to be very busy.
01:44So we're going to be U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and most importantly, Pam Bondi's here.
01:49She's setting it up, and she's done an unbelievable job in every respect beyond this.
01:54So also worked with some of the members of the team right here on D.C., and we're very proud of that effort.
02:03We essentially had the crime down to a very low rate in 12 days, and within another 10 days after that, it was so incredible.
02:12And it continues at that level, and we're going to continue.
02:15We have to because it's our capital.
02:17This team will deploy the full powers of federal law enforcement agencies and enforcement generally to restore public safety and get dangerous career criminals off of our streets.
02:29We're going to get them off.
02:31In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, the highest property crime rate, and the third highest murder rate of any city in the nation.
02:40Other than that, they're doing quite well.
02:41A person is four times more likely to be murdered in Memphis, Tennessee today than in Mexico City.
02:49It's been, and you know Mexico City is not a cakewalk.
02:53It's been overrun with carjackings, robberies, shootings, and killings.
02:57There were 249 murders, 429 rapes, 5,616 burglaries, and 12,522 violent assaults in just the last little while in 2024 and in pieces of 2025,
03:18where it's actually gotten worse until recently when we sent the FBI down to see what the hell is going on.
03:23Last month, a vicious thug carjacked an elderly woman parked at the movie theater, dragged her out of the car, and body slammed her into the pavement where she is still trying to recover.
03:37It probably won't be successful.
03:39So we're not going to allow this kind of savagery to destroy our society anymore.
03:44We're stopping at doing it one by one time, but we want to go quickly.
03:49We don't want to lose Chicago.
03:51We're going to lose Chicago.
03:53We're going to lose places like you go to St. Louis.
03:59We're going to lose St. Louis.
04:00We're not going to lose.
04:01We want to save these places.
04:03You've got to lose them.
04:05The way the man said it, he was a very high-quality man, I said, who would you do next?
04:11He said, sir, do Chicago.
04:12You don't want to lose Chicago.
04:14We're not going to lose Chicago.
04:15So we're going to have to go very big, and we're going to go probably.
04:19We're thinking about it for the next man.
04:20We're going to hold it off.
04:21We're going to do some of the smaller ones, and the truth is our people are so good.
04:27Gaddy, you're doing a great job wherever you may be.
04:30We're doing so good that I don't think we need too much practice, right?
04:34But we've got to go and save our big cities, our great cities.
04:38Chicago's a great city, and we're going to make it great again very soon, and I think
04:43we can do that despite the tremendous size.
04:46I think we can do a real job, and we're going to give you the resources that you need.
04:50So with that, I'd like to just end by saying we're going to make Memphis safe again, and
04:55I'd like to ask Governor Bill Lee to say a few words, and then Pam can talk, and anybody
05:00else you'd like to talk to, we'll go through the whole list we have all day long if we
05:04have to, because we're going to – this is a very important thing.
05:07We have to save our country from violent crime.
05:10So, Bill?
05:11Yes, sir.
05:11Mr. President, first of all, thank you.
05:15Thank you for your commitment for federal resources to the great city of Memphis, and
05:21it is a great city, and it has a great history and a great legacy, and we are very hopeful
05:30and excited about the prospect of moving that city forward.
05:33I've been in office seven years.
05:35I'm tired of crime holding the great city of Memphis back, and I have spoken today with
05:41the director of the U.S. Marshals, with the director of the FBI, with General Bondi.
05:49We realize that this effort of multi-agencies that will combine the work of the Tennessee
05:58Highway Patrol and the local police departments, when we come together, we can make significant
06:05change in our city and the city of Memphis, and that is a powerfully important thing for
06:10the state of Tennessee, and I want to say thank you.
06:12So, this will be your proudest moment when we see you in four or five weeks, maybe sooner.
06:20You're going to see numbers that will drop and plummet like you have.
06:23It's just like we did in D.C.
06:25They plummeted.
06:25Nobody can even believe it, and they're going to plummet.
06:29It'll be one of your really proud moments, and you've done a good job, too, but this will
06:32be your, maybe your proudest moment.
06:34Thank you, sir.
06:34And the director, as the director said, the goal is sustained.
06:38Right.
06:38Got to keep it.
06:39Sustained crime lowering, and that, with this effort, I believe we can get there, we can
06:45finally get there for that city.
06:47Yep.
06:47We're going to have it sustained.
06:48A long time.
06:49And your people are going to get better and better, and your police force has been terrific.
06:53They're working with us very much, as you know.
06:54We started it, as I said, on a little basis, and we got it down quite a bit, but now we're
07:00going for the big march.
07:01Okay?
07:01And Director Patel and his team have done remarkable work so far.
07:05That's true.
07:05As you know, the numbers are great, and this will be one more step in the right direction
07:09for Memphis.
07:10That's true.
07:11They've done a very good job.
07:12Thank you very much.
07:13Pam, please.
07:14President Trump, at your directive, we went in, as you all know, to D.C. and took over
07:19the city of D.C., working hand-in-hand with Metro Transit Authority.
07:23All of the agencies represented here today got over 2,000 violent offenders, got over 200
07:29guns off the streets of D.C., and D.C. is safe again.
07:33And now, Governor, working with you and working with our two U.S. senators and all of our agencies
07:37working hand-in-hand, we're going to do everything we can to make Memphis safe again.
07:42That was President Trump's directive to us, and it's easy to do when you're working with
07:46such great leaders.
07:47And Secretary Noem, you have been instrumental in this.
07:50And Director Patel has already been into Memphis and gotten so many violent offenders and guns
07:55off the street, and that's what started it.
07:58Attorney General Todd Blanche, thank you.
08:00We've all been going nonstop, working hand-in-hand together, and Gaudi Seralta, Terry Cole, and
08:05Director Driscoll of ATF wearing two hats, and Pete Hegseth with the National Guard, all
08:11working hand-in-hand.
08:12And being out there for a month, you can't tell who's with what agency but for the T-shirt
08:17they're wearing, because everyone's working hand-in-hand, and that's why we've been so
08:20successful.
08:21We're going to do that in Memphis, and we're going to get crime off the streets.
08:24That's great.
08:25Thank you, Pam.
08:25Great job.
08:26Thanks, President.
08:26Christy, go ahead.
08:27Mr. President, Memphis has a high number of trafficking, significant human traffickers,
08:33child exploitation, drug trafficking.
08:36The local gangs, they're extremely dangerous, and I'm so excited that you're going in there
08:40to work with not just the governor and willing local leaders, but also our Attorney General
08:46and all the leaders that are standing here today to help protect our children.
08:49So what's going to change dramatically is the families' lives that live there, and it's
08:54only going to happen because of you, because you're coming in.
08:57What has started there, you're going to put on steroids.
08:59The networks that you're going to uncover across this country, because of the work that's
09:03going to happen in Memphis, we're going to see every city get safer, because we're
09:07going to see those ties to other criminals that we're going to get out of the country.
09:10So we're a nation of laws, and sir, thank you for caring about every single city.
09:15Thank you, Christy.
09:16Really nice.
09:17And what makes it to me so exciting is the success we had here so quickly.
09:21And, you know, we've taken close to 1,500 people out of D.C., but when I saw the result
09:28happen so quickly, and so many people are so thankful, and people that you pass them
09:34every day, and they're fine, all of a sudden they're thanking me so profusely.
09:38It was so exciting what's happened, it continues to be what happened in D.C., and so that's
09:43what makes this, I think, even more exciting, because we know what's going to happen.
09:47We have the people, well, look, we're sending in a lot of help.
09:51These cities have been taken over for years, and the last four years under Biden, what's
09:55happened is just a disgrace.
09:57So it really has, the success we've had here has made it to me much more exciting, because
10:03I think we're going to have, proportionally, I mean, you have cases where it's even worse.
10:08I have some people, we have some people quoted today that we took out of papers.
10:13We're so grateful for the National Guard coming, said an owner of a Memphis tax service, it's
10:18so dangerous here, it's so darn dangerous that you can't get out of your car.
10:23If you get out of your car, it says you get robbed, you get mugged, you get hit, you can't
10:28go to the market or a service station.
10:31So yeah, I want to see crime stop, but I want to see the National Guard come in right away
10:35if that's what's necessary.
10:36There's a need, here's another one, from a director of a Memphis-based crime prevention
10:41organization, there's a need for more boots on the ground, you have to get them done fast
10:45before we totally lose it.
10:47They're going to lose it all.
10:48I got two guns put in my face, then another, within five minutes at two different locations,
10:53he said, I got a gun put in my face, then I went someplace else, I had another gun put
10:58in my face.
10:59I was scared, it never happened to me, I've never seen anything like it.
11:02Here's another one, I honestly thought he was going to kill me, said a 60-year-old Memphis
11:08carjacking victim, that man walked up, give me your car, you got five seconds to get out
11:13or you're dead.
11:16This is what we have in this, page after page of the same kind of thing.
11:19Cash, would you say a few words, please?
11:21Thank you, Mr. President.
11:23Thanks to your brilliant foresight.
11:25You had asked us to go in quietly into the cities to help set the landscape, to work with
11:29the inner agency, and to make America safe again.
11:32And we've done that under the FBI's banner program of Operation Summer Heat.
11:36And the results are only as good as the prosecutions.
11:41And because the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General have mobilized DOJ to successfully
11:47prosecute so many violent criminals, we've set the landscape for the inner agency to come
11:51into Memphis and really make it safe permanently.
11:54As the Governor and the Senators and the other Directors were saying, it's not a short-term
11:58mission.
11:58But thanks to you, launching us early, launching us quietly, not looking for the credit, Mr.
12:03President, we greatly appreciate your support and the advanced foresight you had in doing
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