President Donald Trump renewed his threats on Monday to send federal troops into Chicago to "straighten it out."

The president made the comments while speaking to the Religious Liberty Commission, which he established earlier this year to advise the White House.

"You try and reason with people, like in Chicago, with the governor and the mayor, you try to reason with them and it's like you're talking to a wall," Trump said. "We'd love to go into Chicago and straighten it out," he added.

His comments follow a weekend Truth Social post where he parodied an image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation’s third-largest city.

“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning,’” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”

The president also praised Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser for working with the federal government on the crime crackdown in her city.

Trump noted that Bowser has been good to work with although “that’s not her ideology and now I think it maybe is her ideology.”

“She’s taking a lot of heat, too, from the radical left,” he said. “You know, they don’t like that she’s allowing it. But look, she’s going to either allow it or we’ll just do it.”