President Trump floats deploying National Guard troops to New Orleans President Trump said the White House is considering whether to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago or a place with a governor who would welcome them, like New Orleans. Pritzker has his own National Guard, the Illinois National Guard, that he would be free to deploy if he thought the circumstances warranted. ‘Illegal and costly’: Chicago’s mayor blasts Trump’s threat to deploy National Guard President Trump suggested he will “straighten out” Chicago next. You know, Governor Landry, like Governor Pritzker, is the commander-in-chief of his own state National Guard, the Louisiana National Guard. You mentioned the 2020 use of out-of-state National Guard troops in D.C. Michel, that was in a context in which they weren’t federalized, in which 11 states just let the president borrow their National Guard troops.