The mayor of Chicago explodes Trump about the deployment of the National Guard “ threats ”

Mayor Brandon Johnson hit President Donald Trump for what he described as “threats” to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to repress crime.

Johnson’s comments occurred a few hours after the president said on Friday that Chicago would be the next city to see the federal intervention after the mission to reduce crime in Washington, DC concluded.

“After that, we will go to another place, and we will also make it sure,” said Trump in the oval office. “We are going to make our country very safe. … Chicago is in disorder.”

Johnson published a statement noting that the city had not received any official communication concerning the additional federal police or military deployments in Chicago, adding that he had “serious concerns” concerning the impact of any “illegal deployment”.

President Donald Trump speaks with journalists at the Oval Blanche Office on Friday August 22, 2025, in Washington, DC (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

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Johnson described the Trump administration’s efforts “uncoordinated, unleashed and unrelated,” who apparently slammed the president, who called him “very incompetent” earlier in the day.

He added that the city had reduced homicides by 30%, flights by 35% and shootings of almost 40% in the past year, which suggests that federal action would deteriorate confidence.

“The illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago has the potential to inflamm tensions between residents and the police when we know that confidence between the police and the residents is fundamental to building safer communities,” Johnson wrote. “An illegal deployment would not be sustainable and would threaten the historical progress we have made.”

Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, retaliated on Trump’s advice on sending the National Guard to the windy city. (Jamie Kelter Davis / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The city, which fights against poverty and the activity of gangs, has a crime rate higher than the national average.

However, data on crime 2023 show that other cities in Illinois, including Chicago Heights, Danville, Peoria, Rockford and Harvey, had highly higher violent crimes than Chicago.

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“The National Guard will not leave the housing crisis,” wrote Johnson. “It will not put food in the stomachs of children 1 in 4 that will lie hungry every night in Chicago. The National Guard will not fully finance our public schools or will not provide mental health treatment or drug addiction to chicagoans in need.

“The National Guard does not replace switches dedicated to the application of local laws and community violence that know and serve our communities every day. There are many things that the federal government could do to help us reduce crime and violence to Chicago, but the sending of the army is not one of them.”

DC metropolitan police owned a person after an altercation between public members in Washington, DC, United States, August 14, 2025. (Reuters / Nathan Howard)

Asset Federal DC Metropolitan Police Department On August 11, under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which allowed the president to take emergency control of the police for 30 days.

A little over a week later, six red states undertook to send 2,000 guards to the national capital to help efforts, alongside agents of the FBI, administration of the application of drugs (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Weapons and Explosives (ATF).

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Rachel Wolf of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.