CHICAGO — In a change of pace, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would be sending the National Guard to Memphis on a crime-fighting mission after threats of a Chicago deployment were met with weeks of pushback from local and state leaders.

In a sit-down with Fox News on Friday morning, the president announced that he would be sending the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns, indicating that he had the full support of the mayor, a Democrat and the governor of Tennessee, a Republican.

During the sit-down, Trump referred to Memphis as a "deeply troubled" city, adding that his administration was going to "fix that just like we did in Washington.”

While Trump seems to have narrowed his sights on a Memphis Guard deployment, the president lamented that he was not a

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