Trump admin updates: Trump plans to issue executive order to require voter ID

President Donald Trump on Monday slammed Illinois and Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker amid reports that planning is underway at the Pentagon for the potential use of National Guard forces in Chicago.

"When I have some slob like Pritzker criticizing us before we even go there -- I made the statement that next should be Chicago because, as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now and they don't acknowledge it," Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday.

“A lot of people are saying: 'Maybe we like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person," Trump added.

Trump went back and forth over whether the government should send National Guard troops to other cities or wait to be asked.

"We may wait. We may or may not. We may just go in and do it, which is probably what we should do," Trump said. "The problem is, it's not nice when you go in and do it and somebody else is standing there saying, as we give great results, say, 'Well, we don't want the military.'"

"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," President Donald Trump said as he signed executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday.

He signed an order that White House staff secretary Will Scharf said will charge the Justice Department with investigating instances of flag burning and prosecute "when there's evidence of criminal activity."

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning was a form of "symbolic speech" under the Constitution.

"Thank you for protecting the American flag. And we'll do that without running afoul of the First Amendment as well," Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president.

"What it does is incite to riot," Trump said of flag burning. He said under this order, "you will see flag burning stopping immediately."

President Donald Trump on Monday defended the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., saying it's now in "great shape," as he signed an executive order targeting cashless bail in the city.

"We're ending it, but we're starting by ending it in D.C.," Trump said. "And that we have the right to do through federalization."

Trump was flanked by top officials for the signing, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Vice President JD Vance and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Trump signed another executive order that the White House said will task the attorney general with identifying areas around the country with cashless bail policies and withholds or revokes federal funds to the city. Trump took aim at cash-bail policies in Illinois and criticized Gov. JB Pritzker as he signed the order.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Monday aimed at ending cashless bail for suspects arrested in Washington, D.C.,, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

The order is expected to threaten withholding federal funding from Washington and possibly other cities that have cashless bail, the sources said. Supporters of cashless bail have argued that it harms those lower-income offenders who don't have the means to afford paying bail for release from jail pending trial.

Trump has suggested his administration would take steps to eliminate cashless bail in Washington and other places, and has been more vocal about this in recent weeks amid his federal crackdown in the nation's capital.

"No, we're going to be essentially crime-free. This is going to be a beacon, and it's going to also serve as an example of what can be done. We have to get rid of this cashless bail nonsense," Trump said earlier this month.

Axios first reported Trump's plans to sign the order on Monday.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders