Trump Sending National Guard to Memphis in Next Deployment

Members of the US National Guard at Union Station in Washington, DC, in August.
Photographer: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

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By Hadriana Lowenkron, Josh Wingrove, and Georgia Hall

September 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM UTC

Updated on

September 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM UTC

President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy the National Guard to Memphis in the latest escalation of his administration’s efforts to crack down on what it casts as rampant crime in Democratic-run cities.

“We’re going to Memphis,” Trump said Friday morning in an interview with Fox News, adding that the city was “deeply troubled.”