Johnson and Pritzker blast as illegal Trump's suggestion he'll send National Guard to Chicago next [View all]

Just hours after President Donald Trump suggested Chicago would be the next location for a federal troop deployment like the one occurring in Washington, D.C., both Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said the president would be illegally abusing his power if he follows through on the threat.

“The problem with the President’s approach is that it is uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound,” Johnson said in a statement. “Unlawfully deploying the National Guard to Chicago has the potential to inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement when we know that trust between police and residents is foundational to building safer communities.”

And in a post on the social media site X, Pritzker rejected Trump’s notion that Chicagoans were clamoring for the National Guard to patrol city streets.

“Things People are Begging for: 1. Cheaper groceries 2. No Medicaid and SNAP cuts 3. Release of the Epstein Files,” Pritzker wrote. “Things People are NOT begging for: 1. An authoritarian power grab of major cities.”

Pritzker later issued a statement saying that local police don’t want the federal intervention, and promised that “we will follow the law and stand up for the sovereignty of our state.”

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They might meet a phalanx of the police and the Illinois National Guard. What then, O orange one?