President Trump said the next stop for the National Guard could be Louisiana because the Republican governor has asked for intervention.

“So we’re making a determination now, do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite tough, quite bad,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office Wednesday while meeting with the Polish president.

“So we’re going to be going to maybe Louisiana and you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem, and we’ll straighten that out in about two weeks,” he said, adding that it’ll be an easier city to straighten out than the District of Columbia.

He said Chicago could receive help if the Democratic leadership in Illinois asked for it, but that’s not happening even though, he added, the people there want the help.

The president has been floating additional cities and states after touting his crime crackdown in the District, saying it’s now a “safe zone.”

He has named Chicago, Baltimore and New York as cities that need the most help reducing crime.

“We have a great thing going,” he said of D.C. “I could do that with Chicago, we could do that with New York, we could do it with Los Angeles.”

Mr. Trump said Democrats are “against preventing crime; they are fighting us.”

As he sat beside Poland’s president, Karol Nawrocki, he admitted he was “embarrassed” to talk about the crime wave in Chicago, home to many Polish immigrants.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.