Posted on 08/23/2025 6:42:43 AM PDT by Salman
President Donald Trump Friday suggested that federal troops could be deployed to Chicago amid his efforts to crack down on crime, repeating a threat that both Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson have said would be illegal.
During a news conference Friday in the Oval Office, Trump said Chicago could be next to receive federal intervention, similar to Washington, D.C., where nearly 2,000 National Guard troops have been deployed to address what his administration has described as a surge in violent crime, even though D.C. officials say crime is falling in their city.
“Chicago is a mess, you have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we will straighten that one out next,” Trump said referring to Johnson. “That will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough.”
In a statement Friday afternoon, Johnson said deploying federal troops to Chicago would be against the law and “undermine” the city’s progress in reducing crime.
“We take President Trump’s statements seriously, but to be clear the City has not received any formal communication from the Trump administration regarding additional federal law enforcement or military deployments to Chicago,” the mayor said. “Certainly, we have grave concerns about the impact of any unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to the City of Chicago.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson has redefined the notion of mayoral incompetence. He ought to resign.
Johnson needs to go home to Afrika.
They are reducing crime like DC is doing...they are cooking the books.
Let’s go Brandon.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Illegal. Got it.
unlawful .
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Mobocrats seem to always get that word confused with lawful
Especially when they do crimes and claim it’s a novel legality.
Or
They are just natural born dishonest liars and weasels.
I think they’re probably right. Still it’s a masterful move by Trump to highlight how bad crime is in Dem controlled cities and to hear the Dem politicians say “We like our crime levels just as they are”. They would be better served saying something like “We welcome President Trump’s stance but unfortunately our laws don’t allow this type of federal intervention. But we want to bring crime down and any and all ideas and suggestions are welcome.”
I agree. But now days , it wouldn’t make any difference—as all of of big cities are now totally controlled by the radical, far-left. It is so very sad.
What does law have to do with Chicago? They have largely been ignoring the law since before the Great Chicago Fire.
Even martial law would be an improvement over the already lawless ambience that hangs over Chicago like the great brown cloud that once graced the horizon when Chicago was the center of iron smelting and steel making in the Midwest. Coal was the fuel of choice for iron foundries, home heating, power generation, railroads, and I think cars in Chicago ran on coal.
Mayor Johnson is horrified at the thought of unlawfulness in Chicago? Sometimes the jokes write themselves (and hold public office).
Yo Johnny boy! This is the new America. Laws mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! NOTHING!!! If you don’t like a law, you just blow it off. How the hell do you think the lefties got “crime” to go down. They’ve blown off all of the laws. America is now just another lawless nation. You can thank all of the skanky female “judgettes” infesting our judicial system. Especially all of the former Pancake and Pork Chops and Waffle and Chicken House waitresses.
Trump believes in creating and maintaining friction.
It appears to be working.
Trump won 90 per cent of the counties in 2024.
That is an astounding number.
In Trump’s view that gives him leverage over the likes Brandon and Fat Boy.
Domestic violence. ? Hmnnn. What might that be?
I think Trump’s plan is to have people in the streets demanding intervention.
Trump is the benevolent dictator we need. No reason for blue cities controlled by Democrats to be "hellholes".
“Mayor Brandon Johnson has redefined the notion of mayoral incompetence. He ought to resign.”
The people of Chicago knowingly picked this guy after being done with Beetlejuice. They deserve this.
If they're federalized wouldn't that be a lawful deployment, Mr. Mayor?
Or did your paid legal minds not brief you on that?
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