The Brief Mayor Brandon Johnson wrote a New York Times opinion piece rejecting President Donald Trump’s calls to send the National Guard to Chicago. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says President Donald Trump’s push to send the National Guard to Chicago is the wrong answer for fighting crime. "Sending in the National Guard is the wrong solution to a real problem," Johnson wrote. "We don’t need the National Guard; we just need to invest in what works," he wrote. What we don't know:It remains unclear whether Trump will move forward with deploying the National Guard to Chicago.