President Donald Trump teased a major announcement Wednesday regarding a potential federal takeover of Chicago, Illinois, amid the ongoing federal takeover in Washington, D.C., and the president’s repeated threats to do the same in other Dem-led cities.
Trump has publicly feuded with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in recent months, with Trump having labelled Pritzker as “probably the worst (governor) in the country,” and Pritzker, calling the president a “wannabe dictator.”
“Governor Pritzker had 6 murders in Chicago this weekend,” Trump wrote Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. “Twenty people were shot. But he doesn’t want to ask me for help. Can this be possible? The people are desperate for me to stop the crime, something the Democrats aren’t capable of doing. Stay tuned!”
Trump first teased a federal takeover of Chicago shortly after launching the takeover of the nation’s capital, with thousands of National Guard members and federal officers currently patrolling the city’s streets, some of them assigned to pick up garbage.
Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have made clear they would oppose any effort to send federal troops to Chicago’s streets, and vowed to oppose such efforts should they come to fruition.