President Trump says he may send National Guard to New Orleans next instead of Chicago “We’re making a determination now,” Trump said in the Oval Office to reporters. “Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans?” Portrait of Joey GarrisonJoey Garrison USA TODAY
President Donald Trump suggested he may not send National Guard troops into Chicago as he’s repeatedly threatened, and for the first time introduced a potential new target for his next crime crackdown: New Orleans.
One day after he declared, “We’re going in” about plans for Chicago, Trump on Sept. 3 said his administration still hadn’t decided whether he would deploy troops to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump instead pointed to New Orleans, a city in a Republican-led state, in contrast to Democratic-led Illinois.
“We’re making a determination now,” Trump said in the Oval Office to reporters. “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 straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad”?
“So, we’re going to be going to maybe Louisiana,” Trump added.
Fuuuuck. So once again I am guessing he’s going with the path of least resistance bc our governor would literally burn us to the ground if Trump asked him to show his loyalty. I have no no doubt he would let Trump use us to test out any authoritarian bullshit requested.
Meanwhile, I believe Trump lost a lawsuit yesterday with California and I know Chicago’s mayor and governor were both making plans and preparations to resist occupation. So again this will be a very easy way to signal he’s doing something.
BTW, in addition to already having a private nonprofit surveillance company that works with NOPD and LSP (and already set up the only live tracking facial recognition surveillance system of its kind in the U.S. with no notice or input to the public) the National Guard will be New Orleans 4th official branch of city dedicated law enforcement:
NOPD
Louisiana State Police (LSP) branch Troop Nola was permanently established in the city last year by Governor Landry almost as soon as he took office.
And if you have anything like a car wreck, you have to deal with a private company the city contracts out to called On Scene Services (OSS)
All I’ve heard since Troop Nola was established is how much crime is down and we should be grateful for their presence. But apparently that has suddenly changed and we need to add a 4th (in addition to ICE and official ICE State police partners who may already be using the facial recognition surveillance tracking system with zero oversight.
I’ve been to new orleans and it sucked.
You can drink in public and everyone pisses in the street because all the stores charge people to use their bathrooms.
Hmmm, sounds like you kinda suck
Not really. Sounds more like you’re insecure and flustered.
Try to learn how to take criticism 😎
Nah, I just really love my city. I’ve always believed you would have to be an incredibly miserable person to come here and not find something you enjoy.
From your description I would assume you never left Bourbon the entire time you were here. Sucks for you 🤷♀️
Fuck this. Where do we protest?
You misspelled riot.
TACOs do seem like a good idea for dinner.
Trump needed to get his goon squad to punch a bunch of black people on camera and Jeff Laundry was more willing to play ball than J.B. Pritsker.
I’m not looking forward to the Louisiana National Guard getting back into practice shooting black people trying to leave the Superdome twenty years after last time. I don’t really consider slow rolling one of America’s largest black cities into The West Bank a win.
I’m not looking forward to the Louisiana National Guard getting back into practice shooting black people trying to leave the Superdome twenty years after last time.
Hey, first of all, okay, they were black! And, y’know, suspicious! Probably escaping from something!
For those who don’t know also it was just regular cops, not the guard, but that was twenty years ago, before the mask-off fascism.
Heck, it’s probably the plan.
He’s trying so hard to make people forget that he’s a pedophile
What list?
Trump attacked Iran???
Get ya po’ boys ready!
I told you whatever he thought was going to happen wasn’t going to happen.
There’s a lot less black people in New Orleans than Chicago. I’m confused by this shift.
There are less by number but more per percentage. That and the Governor and a good portion of the states residents are professional trump cock gobblers.
The Louisiana governor is receptive to it. Dumbass sycophant.
It’s all made-up bullshit anyway; might as well flip a coin, dumbass.
Protect from who?
Cmon say it, I’m listening
Right but Trump is a liar. Nobody believes a word he says; this story is a waste of space. Of course he would say this to deflect from the bad news of targeting blue cities … right before going into Chicago anyway.
And he’s in the Epstein Files. Don’t forget that.
He’s not a liar. He just changes his mind. To keep his opponents on their toes!!
21d chess mofo!
/s
Well, he may be chickening out. There’s plenty of precedent for that.
And he’s in the Epstein Files. Don’t forget that.
What’s the kind of end game of this thing? What would happen if it was decisively proven that Trump is in there and actually fucked underaged people?
Would USA get President Vance? Would that be better? Or is the point just to keep hammering about the Epstein files, not to get Trump fired but to just create tiny stings at him so that he cannot do things?
Doubting the Big Easy will be as easy as expected.
Are the Epstein Files in the French Quarter?
