“We’d love to go into Chicago and straighten it out,” Trump said as he delivered remarks at the Museum of the Bible.
We can move fast and stop this madness,” Trump wrote in the post.
“We could do the same thing in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles,” Trump said in his remarks at the Museum of the Bible.
“We saved Los Angeles, we saved Los Angeles,” he said.
The Trump administration deployed thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June, over the protests of Gov.
President Donald Trump continued to attack Chicago on Monday as the city prepares for possible federal action.
Trump stated, “We’d love to go into Chicago and straighten it out,” during his speech at the Bible Museum.
Even though police data indicates that fewer murders and shootings have occurred this year than last, Trump wrote earlier Monday on his social media platform that the people of Illinois should “band together and DEMAND PROTECTION” from what he has described as a crime problem in Chicago.
“I want to do good, not harm, to the people of Chicago. Trump wrote in the post, “We can act quickly and put an end to this madness. Only the criminals will suffer harm.”.
The remarks follow an argument between Trump and Illinois officials over the weekend after the president made a contentious post mentioning the Department of War’s recent rebranding.
In reference to the frequently cited line “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” from the war movie “Apocalypse Now,” Trump posted a manipulated image on Saturday along with the caption, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” He wrote, “Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”. “,”.
Later, on Sunday, Trump told reporters, “We’re not going to war,” downplaying the threat. We intend to make our cities cleaner. “..”.
Illinois Democratic leaders criticized Trump’s rhetoric, and protests against the president’s threat to send National Guard troops and tighten immigration enforcement took place across Chicago on Saturday.
The governor of Illinois said, “I want to help people, not hurt them,” according to the man who just threatened an American city with the Department of War. On Monday, JB Pritzker posted on X.
Trump stated on Monday that he wanted to “fix” Chicago, but he also hinted that his administration might not deploy troops without a request from local and state authorities, stating that they are “waiting for a call from Chicago.”. “..”.
“I’m not sure why Chicago isn’t phoning us and pleading for our assistance when you’ve shot hundreds of people and committed 50 murders in a short amount of time. Then there is a governor who takes a stand and declares that crime is okay. It’s insane, but we’re restoring law and order to our nation,” Trump declared.
When asked by reporters last week, Pritzker made it clear that he would not be making such a request: “When did we become a nation where it’s okay for the U. S. president to demand on national TV that a state call him to plead for anything, particularly something we don’t want?”.
In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began an expanded operation on Monday called “Midway Blitz,” which will “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”.
In an attempt to minimize Trump’s threat, Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said Monday that the Guard is “always on the table” but did not specify whether or when it would be sent to Chicago. “..”.
“We probably won’t let you know if it’s happening … We won’t broadcast what we’re doing,” Homan stated.
While praising his administration’s federal takeover of Washington, Trump proposed on Monday that other American cities should follow suit.
Trump stated during his speech at the Museum of the Bible, “We could do the same thing in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles.”.
When he said, “We saved Los Angeles, we saved Los Angeles,”.
Over Governor Trump’s protests, the Trump administration sent thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June. Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, and Gavin Newsom. The use of federal troops in the California city was recently declared unlawful by a federal judge.
Earlier on Monday, Jessica Tisch, the commissioner of police for New York City, expressed her disapproval of the National Guard’s presence on major city streets.
“I am disgusted by the notion of our streets becoming militarized as a lifelong New Yorker,” Tisch stated at a breakfast hosted by the Citizens Budget Commission. “I will make it very clear to everyone—including the attorney general—that the NYPD has this problem if they wish to discuss it with me. That kind of assistance from the federal government is not something we need or desire. “..”.
Selina Wang, Michelle Stoddart, and Aaron Katersky of ABC News contributed to this story.
