Trump authorizes the deployment of 300 National Guard members to Chicago.

However, overall crime levels in Chicago remain significantly higher than the average for many American cities. Last Labor Day weekend, at least 58 individuals were shot; eight of them died. It wasn't in the hotel restaurant, but in the rooms where he lives with his wife, Mira, and their three children, that I was invited to dinner with Kadir and his family. The president referred to his deployments to American cities in a speech to military leaders earlier this week. He stated that he wants US cities to be used as "training grounds" for the military to confront the "internal enemy" and suppress unrest. "These are very unsafe areas, and we are going to correct them individually," he said of cities governed by Democrats, including Chicago. For nearly a month, Trump has threatened to deploy troops to the city due to the violent crime and shootings occurring there. In the last two years, the number of violent crimes in Chicago has dropped significantly.