President Donald Trump criticized Illinois and the Democratic governor JB Pritzker in the midst of reports that the planning is underway in the Pentagon for the potential use of the forces of the National Guard in Chicago.
“When I have a little lobe like Pritzker criticizing us before going there, I made the statement that the next one should be Chicago because, as everyone knows, Chicago is a murder field at this time and they don’t recognize it,” Trump said in the Oval office on Monday.
“Many people say:” Maybe we like a dictator. “I don’t like a dictator.
Trump went back and forth if the government should send national guard troops to other cities or wait to be asked.
President Donald Trump speaks while signing executive orders at the Oval Office of the White House, on August 25, 2025, in Washington.
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“We can expect. We can or not. We can enter and do it, which is probably what we should do,” Trump said. “The problem is that it is not pleasant when you enter and do it and someone else is standing there, as we give great results, let’s say: ‘Well, we don’t love the military.”
