The politics of the coming National Guard deployment
President Donald Trump, from left, speaks as Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., hold a signed memorandum titled “Restoring Law and Order in Memphis” as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee looks on in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
It’s been 10 days since President Donald Trump last turned a good part of his attention to Memphis with an Oval Office ceremony. Even then it wasn’t his full attention.
In signing the Sept. 15 executive order sending the National Guard and 13 federal agencies to the city to help fight crime, Trump talked a lot about what cities might be next.
He’s also relished what he has said — although others have disputed — was a triumph in the federal intervention in Washington D.C.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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