ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - President Donald Trump Friday said the CEO of Union Pacific Railroad asked him to deploy National Guard Troops to St. Louis.

The president made the comment Friday morning on Fox News’s morning show, Fox and Friends. He was discussing his decision Thursday to send the National Guard to Memphis to clean up crime.

Without naming him directly, the president said Memphis was suggested to him by the CEO of Union Pacific Railroad, who is Jim Vena.

He went on to say he asked Vena where else he thought troops should be deployed.

“I said to him: ‘Where else should we go? Where would you say,’” Trump said. “He said, ‘Sir, please, do me a favor. St. Louis has been so badly hit. It’s very hard. Very very hard.’”

In a statement sent to First Alert 4, the Mayor’s Off

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