Trump admin updates: ICE launches immigration enforcement operation in Boston

President Trump on Tuesday was asked if he's decided whether he is going to send National Guardsmen to Chicago.

"Well, we're going in," Trump said as he took questions from reporters in the Oval Office. But he didn't say when such an operation would take place.

"I didn't say when we're going in," Trump continued. "When you lose -- look, I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation."

Trump pointed to gun violence over the weekend in Chicago and said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be requesting federal assistance.

"If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up. I would love to do it. Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country," Trump said.

Fox News' Peter Doocy brought up a social media trend from over the weekend following Trump's lack of public appearances.

"How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead? You see that the people didn't see you for a couple days. 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise," Doocy asked.

Trump said he did not hear about those rumors, but maintained that he is "very active."

"I didn't I knew they were saying, like, 'Is he OK? How is he feeling? What's wrong?' I said I just left and it's also sort of a longer weekend. You know, it's Labor Day weekend. So I would say a lot of people know I was very active this Labor Day," he said.

President Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, said the U.S. military "shot out" a boat carrying drugs from Venezuela.

"You'll be seeing that and you'll be reading about that," Trump said. "It just happened moments ago. And our great General, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been so incredible ... But he gave us a little bit of a briefing, and you'll see. And there's more where that came from."

"We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time, and we just -- these came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela. A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela," the president added. "So, we took it out, and you'll get to see that after this -- after this meeting is over."

Speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced U.S. Space Command is moving from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.

"Forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City," Trump said.

The president was flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Alabama Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt and other officials as he gave remarks.

The decision, confirmed to ABC News earlier Tuesday by person familiar with the matter, reverses a move by President Joe Biden in 2023 to build a new headquarters in Colorado Springs. Trump took aim at Biden in his remarks, and expressed his hope that Space Command will remain in Alabama for "hundreds of years."