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People were mocking President Donald Trump's bizarre attack on his longtime foe Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Saturday.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform and posted an exaggerated illustration of Pritzker eating a smorgasbord, with a cheeseburger in one hand and a pizza slice in another, surrounded by a giant nacho plate, large milkshake, bucket of fried chicken, spaghetti and meatball plate — and more — with the caption "JB is too busy to keep Chicago safe!"

The move came just days after a Politico report featured Pritzker responding to Trump's second term in office and the Democrats' 2024 election loss, saying "We want to move on from losing, especially because look at the damage that’s been done to the country as a result of Donald Trump taking office." ...

A Democratic governor who serves as a thorn in the side of Donald Trump on Saturday warned that Dems "won's have a chance" at reclaiming the Senate if the GOP prevails in one key race.

Governor JB Pritzker, who has frequently been subjected to taunts by the president, sent out an urgent plea over the weekend.

"I’m emailing you today about New Hampshire’s Senate race because this is serious: Senate Republicans’ hand-picked candidate, John Sununu, jumped in to defeat Chris Pappas and flip this open Senate seat red," he wrote in a fundraising email. "Without Chris Pappas winning in New Hampshire, Democrats won’t have a chance at taking back a majority in the Senate. That’s why this race is being targeted by GOP super PACs and Republicans across the country."...

President Donald Trump deviated from his speech pardoning two turkeys ahead of Thanksgiving to attack one prominent Democratic governor presumed to run for the presidency in 2028.

During his remarks at the White House on Tuesday, Trump spent a portion of his speech talking about 26 year-old Bethany MaGee, who was set on fire while riding a train in Chicago, Illinois and is currently being treated for her injuries in a local hospital. Trump launched into an attack on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), suggested their policies were to blame for the attack.

"The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is a big, fat slob," Trump said. "He ought to invite us in and say, 'please make Chicago safe.' We're going to lose a great city if we don't do it quickly."...

A prominent Democratic governor warned Tuesday that "something nefarious" is happening with President Donald Trump.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker described the current "Trump crisis" and ongoing ICE raids in his state during an interview with The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich published Tuesday, describing how he lives "rent-free" in the president's head. Pritzker is calling for action, adding a new "accountability commission" that will monitor ICE activity in Illinois and "document any potentially illegal behavior that federal authorities engage in while they are in Illinois."

“Someone who is acting improperly now, who’s acting abusively now,” he said, “will likely think twice if they think that there’s going to be a record of it and that eventually this will come back to haunt them.”...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker suggested that President Donald Trump was acting out his own unresolved psychological issues.

The Democratic billionaire is locked in a battle with the president over National Guard troop deployments in Chicago to assist in often violent crackdowns by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and Pritzker told Politico Magazine why he believes Trump was calling for him and Mayor Brandon Johnson to be thrown in jail.

"Well, all I can say is that with the president’s mental health decline, the fact that JD Vance really doesn’t know anything about addressing crime, fighting crime — he was a U.S. senator and before that an author — all due respect, we’ve been actually doing the job on the ground," Pritzker said, "and threatening to jail your political opponents. I mean, does that sound like the United States?"...

A deep red state governor slammed Texas for sending National Guard troops to Chicago, saying "Oklahomans would lose their mind" if Illinois were to do the same to his state.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, chair of the National Governors Association, said the move is overstepping state rights in a New York Times interview on Thursday. His comments "marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections."

“We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” he told The Times, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”...