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President Trump said he was unsure if he would be able to stop the “send her back” chants directed toward Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar if they begin during his upcoming rally.

The president spoke to reporters on the West Lawn prior to his departure for his Thursday night rally in Cincinnati, Ohio. Trump eventually denounced the chants of “send her back!” that erupted while he assailed Omar during his last rally in North Carolina.

“Are you prepared to tell your supporters to stop if they begin chanting something problematic?” a reporter asked.

“I do not know what’s going to happen. I can tell you this: I’m going to Cincinnati. The arena’s a very large one. We can sell it out probably 10 times, from what I hear. The applications for seats, as you know, never had an empty seat, the applications are very big. I have no idea. We have a great group of people,” Trump said.

“They love our country,” the president continued. “They love the job we are doing. And when they see the kind of people that want to represent us from the last two nights, that is not what they want. I do not know. I can’t tell you whether or not they’re going to do that chant. If they do the chant, we will have to see what happens. I don’t know that you can stop people, I don’t know that you can. I mean, we will see what we can do. I prefer that they don’t. If they do it, we will have to make a decision then.”

The original chant came only days after Trump attacked Omar and three of her colleagues and argued that they should go back to the countries they come from if they are unhappy in the U.S.