President Donald Trump said on Monday that the federal government plans to get involved to try to stop California's redistricting effort.

"I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon and I think we're going to be very successful in it," Trump said. "We're going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That's going to happen."

Last week, California's state legislature passed bills that comprise the state's plan to put new congressional bills on the ballot in a November special election, in retaliation for a congressional redistricting plan moving forward in Texas. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said the state was "standing up" to Trump and the GOP.

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.