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On Monday, Trump said such a deployment could soon be coming to ӣ����Ƶ. He made his remarks during a press conference in the Oval Office after he signed a memo directing the National Guard and other federal personnel to Memphis.

“We want to save these places,” Trump said, referring to Chicago and ӣ����Ƶ, noting that Chicago was “probably next.”

The possibility first came to light Friday, when Trump mentioned it on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends.”

But since that mention, the offices of GOP U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt — as well as Democratic U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell, whose district includes the city — have not heard any specific details of such a move.

ӣ����Ƶ Mayor Cara Spencer said she has not been contacted about a National Guard deployment, and that the office of Gov. Mike Kehoe told her the same thing.

Trump’s idea seems to have been spurred by a conversation he had last week with Jim Vena, CEO of the Union Pacific railroad company. Vena was in Washington to talk about the railroad’s proposed $85 billion merger.

Trump said Vena endorsed sending the National Guard to Memphis and then suggested a similar move for ӣ����Ƶ.

Trump said Vena told him: “Sir, please, do me a favor: ӣ����Ƶ has been so badly hit, so very hard.”

Union Pacific spokesperson Kristen South did not directly address the comment, saying in a statement that Vena and Trump’s meeting had “addressed the safety and security of all Americans ...”