President Donald Trump suggested he could send federal troops to New Orleans to thwart violent crime in the Crescent City, the president said on Wednesday.

Federal troops are bound to enter Chicago to thwart an epidemic of violence in the Windy City, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House.

President Trump suggested he may not send National Guard troops into Chicago and could instead target New Orleans in Republican-led Louisiana.

The US president has already said he plans to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore.

President Donald Trump suggested he could send federal troops to New Orleans to thwart violent crime in the Crescent City, the president said on Wednesday.

Trump invoked war imagery in threatening to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, where Gov. JB Pritzker opposes having troops.