Donald Trump continues to put pressure on major US cities. During his turkey pardoning at the White House on Tuesday, the president urged the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago.
Donald Trump spoke not only about turkeys during the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon on Tuesday. The president called Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker a “fat slob,” and continued to threaten to allow National Guard troops to be deployed in the Windy City. tackle crime amid recent violent incidents, including the one involving 26-year-old Bethany MaGee.
The woman was allegedly set on fire in a horrifying attack on a Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line train last week. The suspect, 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, was, according to CBS, previously arrested more than 70 times.
At the time of the train attack, he was on an ankle monitor with a curfew after an alleged violent attack in August. Reed is in custody awaiting trial, and MaGee was critically injured, sustaining severe burns to her face and body.
Moreover, several shootings, including two on Friday night, occurred in Chicago last week.
“This is a very serious thing,” Trump said in his Thanksgiving address. “They burned this beautiful woman riding in a train. A man was arrested 72 times. 72 times. Think of that. And they’ll let him out again, the liberal judges will let him out again.”
Donald Trump demands that the National Guard be deployed in Chicago
The president claimed that his previous deployments to cities such as Los Angeles and Memphis have led to crime plummeting. While Illinois Gov. Pritzker has opposed Trump’s plan to deploy troops, calling them unconstitutional, the president has also threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Chicago.
“But we’re ready to go. You know, we’ve been moving toward Chicago. We have a governor that thinks it’s wonderful that only like seven people were killed this week… It’s horrible what’s happening in Chicago,” Trump continued, saying that a federal response would make the Windy City “totally safe” within weeks.
“And the people of Chicago want us to go there. And if you look at the crime that’s taking place in Chicago in the last two weeks, just take a look. It’s on the front page of every newspaper,” the president continued. “It’s out of control. The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is a big fat slob. He ought to invite us in and say, ‘Please make Chicago safe.’ We’re going to lose a great city if we don’t do it quickly.”
Pritzker later responded to Trump’s weight joke, saying, “It takes one to know one on the weight question.”
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