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FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office

Published September 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 45:01

You know, a new thing that I've been seeing a lot of lately but never saw before is they're walking in with bricks and rocks and everything, and The FBI or the Border Patrol or ICE and. Or the police are grabbing them and taking them away. and that's great. And then they whip out. And then they whip a hammer. And it's a beautiful hammer. Really. It's nice. You know, this is not a hammer somebody happens at. (45:01–45:09)

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“A person is four times more likely to be murdered in Memphis, Tennessee today than in Mexico City.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 03:25-03:32
“There were 249 murders, 420 rapes, 5,616 burglaries, and 12,522 violent assaults in just the last little while in 2024.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 03:39-03:58
“They killed 300,000 people in our country last year, and we're not letting it happen anymore.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 31:30-31:37
“We have virtually no crime in D.C. right now, and we're going to keep it that way.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:04-00:10
“We did send FBI in about four months ago to work, and it brought some of the numbers down.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:28-00:34
“We also sent them into Chicago on a sort of a moderate basis, and we brought down crime a little bit in Chicago.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 00:37-00:45
“The effort will include the National Guard as well as the FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE, Homeland Security investigations and the US Marshals.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 02:01-02:12
“We essentially had the crime down to a very low rate in 12 days and within another 10 days after that, it was so incredible.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 02:45-02:55
“We're going to make Memphis safe again.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 05:35-05:38
“We've taken close to 1500 people out of D.C.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 10:04-10:10
“These cities have been taken over for years and the last four years under Biden.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 10:33-10:38
“I want to see the National Guard come in right away if that's what's necessary.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 11:15-11:19
“There's a need for more boots on the ground.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 11:24-11:27
“We have set the landscape for the interagency to come into Memphis and really make it safe permanently.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 12:31-12:37
“A president should have stepped up long ago and saved these cities.”
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“The FBI for the last four or five months because they have brought down the numbers quite a bit.”
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“The United States Marshal Service leading. And in joining 22 other federal agencies.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 16:25-16:34
“We spoke with over 30 of the local agencies, letting them know what to expect.”
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“The President ran on making this country safe again.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 17:13-17:18
“We do not make this country safe again unless we go into our cities where there's the most violent among us.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 17:17-17:23
“Plan on delivering Memphis back to the citizens that are there to raise their families, to go to church, to be in their communities.”
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“Whether it takes two weeks or two years, that's what we're going to do.”
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“In Chicago, they're getting beat to hell, they're being shot. If you lose six or seven people die over a weekend, they consider that a…”
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“Antifa is terrible.”
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“I've been speaking to the attorney general about bringing RICO against some of the people that you've been reading about that have been…”
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“We got to save St. Louis, we got to save these cities.”
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“I think they said 38 people shot and 11 people dead.”
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“The FBI has done a very good job in particular in Memphis and Chicago. They burn down a little bit like 20% and 25%.”
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“We have proof. All you have to do is look at the cargo that was like it spattered all over the ocean. Big bags of cocaine and fentanyl all…”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 29:53-30:03
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FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 31:03-31:14
“If they do cooperate, that's good. If they don't, it's not going to matter to us at all.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 33:07-33:11
“I heard 87% is down. I said, really? Who are the 13%? Because it's more than that.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 34:06-34:14
“Turning Point is it became a very big deal.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 37:28-37:33
“I heard they had like 38,000.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 37:32-37:34
“Freedom of speech means you can burn the American flag.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 39:45-39:48
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