President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that he may prioritize the deployment of federal troops to New Orleans, Louisiana.

During an appearance in the Oval Office to meet Polish President Karol Nawrocki, President Trump said his administration would decide which state to focus its law enforcement efforts on.

"We are making a determination now: 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 come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that has become quite – quite tough, quite bad?" President Trump said.

"You have New Orleans, which has a crime problem. We’ll straighten that out in two weeks, easier than D.C.," he said.

The discussion is a pivot from comments President Trump made earlier i

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