After Weeks of Threats, Trump Sends Federalized Troops To Downtown Chicago
Source: MEDIAite
Sep 28th, 2025, 7:11 pm
President Donald Trump has started sending federalized troops to Chicago on Sunday after threatening to do so for weeks.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) soon after clips of troops and immigration agents patrolling The Windy City started circulating on X on Sunday posted that he was aware of the development.
I am closely monitoring the confirmed reports of federal agents on Michigan Ave., Johnson said. While Chicagoans and visitors are enjoying another gorgeous Sunday, they are being intimidated and threatened by masked federal agents flaunting automatic weapons for no apparent reason.
Johnson added, This is another brazen provocation from the Trump administration that does nothing to make our city safer.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/after-weeks-of-threats-trump-sends-federalized-troops-to-downtown-chicago/
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I am closely monitoring the confirmed reports of federal agents on Michigan Ave. While Chicagoans and visitors are enjoying another gorgeous Sunday, they are being intimidated and threatened by masked federal agents flaunting automatic weapons for no apparent reason. This is another brazen provocation from the Trump administration that does nothing to make our city safer. We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as they become available. MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON Protecting Chicago Chicago.gov/Protect
4:29 PM · Sep 28, 2025
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The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks.
This is not making anybody safer its a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.
4:31 PM · Sep 28, 2025

OldBaldy1701E
(9,147 posts)BWdem4life
(2,764 posts)price hasn't really come down much
BumRushDaShow
(160,868 posts)send some "trash balloons" over the WH.
mopinko
(72,995 posts)protect the protesters at broadview. i fully realize how fast this cd go sideways, but what else to do?
and just like d.c., theyre milling around tourist areas. i dare those assholes to go after the gangs.
Safe as Milk
(151 posts)Cut the electricity and water services to all buildings that support the unauthorized invasion of the military to Chicago. The mayor has that power. It's an emergency.
Gimpyknee
(737 posts)The rest our all cowards.
BumRushDaShow
(160,868 posts)
Or this one?

(they wre my favorites over the Lone Ranger

Gimpyknee
(737 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,868 posts)might be considered "a Soros"!
DFW
(59,024 posts)Id have them arrested by a massive show of force by the Chicago PD as a criminal gang, who is threatening either robbery or kidnapping. If they are roaming the streets of Chicago with military weapons, lets see some written authorization for it. If there is none, lock their asses up, and forget where, just like they do with people who havent menaced anyone.
murielm99
(32,366 posts)the Cubs' playoff game. Most of the time, Chicago baseball fans have little enough to cheer about. Fuck him.
MoseShrute
(85 posts)Response to murielm99 (Reply #8)
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orangecrush
(26,848 posts)murielm99
(32,366 posts)something is wrong with you. I think you are being dense on purpose. Not a nice way to spend your first hours here, newbie.
Let's say it was my fiftieth birthday and also the day I had finally completed my master's degree. I decided to have a party. Nearly every important person in my life was present. Across town, my mother, whom I have almost nothing to do with because of her nastiness, decided to have a party of her own. There would be many people who were compelled to be there because of family or financial obligation. It was going to be a big splashy party with lots of noise and publicity. She made sure everyone in our small town knew about her rival event. That is as close as I can get.
It is too bad you know nothing about die-hard Cubs fans. I try to show some understanding of other people's passions.
Hekate
(99,607 posts)IronLionZion
(49,992 posts)there are many blue cities in America. They can't be everywhere every time.
ananda
(33,385 posts)I've been wondering whether America is
actually controllable, the way the states
and cities work on such a numerous and
large scale.
Let's put it this way. He's got a military
force with generals and leaders... but
that is usually used to keep the peace
with places around the world... not here
at home.
I keep thinking: if he can't controll all
of us here... and he has to keep his
people here... well.. what will happen
elsewhere?
Not only that, but he and his leaders
are totally incompetent and insane.
All I see ahead is a series of FUBAR
clusterfucks.
And somehow I doh't think I'm wrong.
Cirsium
(2,915 posts)Yes, a tyrant absolutely can control all of us. We are already being controlled to a large extent. The resistance has been mild and ineffective. Millions of people have had their lives turned upside down in various ways.
The Nazis' actions were also seen as a series of FUBAR clusterfucks and the leaders
were totally incompetent and insane. Eventually that caught up to them, but not before millions were robbed, tortured, maimed and killed.
ananda
(33,385 posts)But what has he actually "controlled" that
he hasn't fucked up.
Nothing he's controlling is "working."
I know he's doing a lot of damage and harm
to many people and places... but that's not
the same as controlling the country in a way
that makes it workable.
I'm pretty sure it's not possible with the kind
of people we have in charge.
Hekate
(99,607 posts)DOGE is all about disassembling the structure of our federal government, and they are doing that quite well.
Eventually the people who enabled this will either be vomiting continuously, or chuckling while they build a new Fortress of Solitude and count their billions, or sitting in the rubble of their lives wondering how this came to be
Thats not us, because we saw this coming. Im just referring to Trumps enablers of all degrees.
Cirsium
(2,915 posts)You are applying the wrong standards. He isn't trying to "make the country workable."
He has 24/7 attention from millions for a decade now. He has freedom to break all kinds of things and hurt people. He enjoys that immensely. He is surrounded by people who flatter him constantly and profusely. He feds off of that.
It is all working, and the results are beyond his wildest dreams.
ananda
(33,385 posts)Nothing is working for anybody.
The point of fascism is to make things work through
complete social control.
What Trumpers have is a sadistic wet dream which
will last for awhile but that doesn't mean anything
is working.
Cirsium
(2,915 posts)Nazi Germany was complete chaos.
The point of fascism is to smash things up, terrorize the population, and tear down the government.
The Nazis had a sadistic wet dream which lasted for awhile and that didn't mean anything
was working.
He was incredibly lazy. According to his aides, even when he was in the capitol he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by his staff. He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in the world," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish.
He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him.
Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take him seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get.
https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136
That is not about Trump, though it should be eerily familiar. The author is writing about Adolph Hitler.
Marthe48
(21,937 posts)Just like ANTIFA, blue is a state of mind, not something traitor felon can line up and shoot, or round up and disappear.
RESIST!
Cirsium
(2,915 posts)The troops don't need to be everywhere every time. Right now, the White House is field testing a strike fore, probing the boundaries, intimidating people, and keeping all of us of balance. More and more brownshirts are being recruited, and more and more concentration camps are being built. Government, including the military, is being purged of MAGA opponents.
IronLionZion
(49,992 posts)I keep hoping that our numbers will work in our favor.
Hekate
(99,607 posts)Cirsium
(2,915 posts)There were 25,000 camp inmates in Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the war. Subsequently, 165,000 Jews were imprisoned and most were murdered.
The population of Germany in 1939 was 86,755,281.
"All of us going to the camps" is not a very useful indicator of anything.
No, we aren't all going to the camps.
mwb970
(11,959 posts)It won't be pretty. He is a rotten scoundrel and everyone will finally know it.
MichMan
(16,009 posts)
orleans
(36,436 posts)what a bunch of assholes.
oh wait -- maybe they're shopping for the girlfriends they're hoping to obtain (eventually)
llmart
(16,892 posts)It's the main reason they wear masks. If they took them off, no woman would be interested since they most likely all look like the ass end of a donkey.
turbinetree
(26,600 posts)and report it as such...................and start calling him a dictator and not a president he is not a president...........he is a convicted 34 count fraudster..................dictator.....................end of story..............JFC....................
R Merm
(434 posts)are there. Just hope they were scared away and not arrested by ICE.
Safe as Milk
(151 posts)Locate all of the federal buildings used to execute the invasion of Chicago and CUT OFF THEIR UTILITIES, specifically the water and electricity services. If Donny wants to maintain a "war footing" with his Democratic Party enemies, then let's go to war. Let the military rent porta-potties and let them bring in generators for electricity. MAKE THEM UNWELCOMED INTRUDERS. Otherwise, Chicago isn't really interested in recognizing the invasion for what it is, and are partially supporting Trump's invasion. CUT THEM OFF!