Trump promises to send troops to Chicago despite Pritzker’s objections

President Donald Trump and his administration launched a crusade against Illinois legislators who refused the offers to send troops from the National Guard to Chicago after a violent weekend of the Labor Day.

While the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker and other heads of state remain categorical according to which the troops of the National Guard are not welcome in Chicago, the Trump administration revealed the heat of Pritzker to accept them in the repression of Trump’s crime in Washington.

“At least 54 people were shot dead in Chicago during the weekend, 8 people were killed … Pritzker really needs help, he just doesn’t know it yet,” said Trump in a Tuesday on social networks. “I’m going to solve the crime problem quickly, just as I did to DC. Chicago will be safe again, and soon. To return America again great!”

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President Donald Trump and the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker exchanged net words while Trump was floating in deployment of the national guard troops in Chicago and Pritzker performed to fight this decision in court. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump published another article on social networks on Tuesday morning, labeling Chicago the “capital of murder”.

Trump doubled his feelings later in the oval office and said places like Afghanistan “do not even approach the crime in Chicago. In addition, he said that he had decided that he would send troops from the National Guard to Chicago, despite Pritzker’s opposition.

“If the governor of Illinois calls me, I would like to do it,” Trump told journalists later on Tuesday. “Now we are going to do it anyway. We have the right to do so because I have the obligation to protect this country.”

Other members of the administration also weighed on the violence of Chicago during the weekend of the Labor Day. For example, JD Vance shared a position quoting Pritzker saying that Trump “made a crisis”, while representing statistics of the crime of the Chicago Labor Day.

In addition, the spokesperson for the White House, Abigail Jackson, said that Democrats prefer to let their voters suffer than accepting Trump’s offer.

Pritzker says that “the action will be greeted by an answer” after Trump threatens to send the National Guard to Chicago

Vice-president JD Vance shared a post quoting the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, saying that Trump “made a crisis”, (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

“Local Democratic leaders knowingly prefer their residents in danger to let President Trump help,” said Jackson in an article on X. “These people are sick!”

The Pritzker office did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fox News Digital. However, Pritzker remained faithful in his opposition to the national guard troops in Chicago following publications on Trump’s social networks.

“Just a nice day here,” said Pritzker in a video published on Tuesday on social networks. “No emergency, then Donald Trump understands, no emergency in the city of Chicago to send troops.”

In addition, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, said in a August statement that crime was broken in Chicago. He said the city in the past year had reduced homicides by more than 30%, flights by 35%and shooting by almost 40%.

Despite this, the White House highlighted the local reports that Chicago has had the most murders of any American city for 13 years.

However, FBI 2024 data show that Chicago does not have the most murders per capita and is not listed in the best five cities for murder per inhabitant.

Pritzker previously called Trump’s push to bring the national guard troops to Chicago “unconstitutional” and “non -American”.

Gov. Pritzker says that Trump trying to “make a crisis” while the administrator plans a deployment of the National Guard in Chicago

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, center, speaks, flanked by mayor Brandon Johnson, on the right. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

The troops of the National Guard are reserve forces which are activated to manage state and federal operations, such as natural disasters. States governments generally oversee their respective national guard forces. However, the federal government oversees the National Guard of the Columbia District.

In June, Trump deployed California National Guard troops in Los Angeles in response to immigration riots there – controversial controversial the authority of the Governor of California Gavin Newsom.

Newsom, a democrat, finally filed a complaint against the Trump administration to unite the National Guard to respond to these riots. A California federal judge judged Trump’s decision to deploy troops in Los Angeles on Tuesday to violate federal law.