Trump Floats USSING Chicago, Other Democrat-LEED CITIES FOR MILITY TRAINING, SAYS TROOPS ‘VEY SOON’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday Escalated his Threats Against Democratic Cities, Telling About 800 of the Country’s Top Military Officials That He’s Using “Dangerous Cities As Training Grounds” for the Military and Will Be Going “Very Soon.”
Gov. JB Pritzker Immediately Decried Trump’s Latest Promise to Deploy Troops in the City As an Authorian plows that suggests a cognitive decline in the President, while joining Mayor Brandon Johnson in Demanding that the White House Back off any intervention.
Trump’s Wide-Ranging and Unprecedered Address to Military Leaders in Quantico, Virginia, COMES A AFTER PRITZKER SAID HAD RECEIVED WORD THAT THE DEPARTMENTS SECURANTY WANTS TO SEND IN 100 “MILITY TROOPS” TO PROTECT ICE FACIILITIES AND Personnel.
“I Told (Defense Secretary) Pete (Hegseth) We Should Use Some of These Dangerous CITies as Training Grounds for Our Military, But Military, Because We’re Into Chicago Very Soon,” Trump Said. “That’s a Big City with an Incompete Governor. Stupid Governor. Stupid.”
Trump Again Criticized Crime in Chicago, Despite Violent Crime and Murder Rates Having Dropped in the City, Saying, “They Need the Military Desperately.”
Mobilization of the National Guard has begun in oregon, which Trump Called “A WAR ZONE.”
Trump then addresses where the military Could retaliate against protests, Saying, “I Say they spit, we hit.”
He Also Told Military Leaders That He Signed An Executive Order to EstaBish a National Guard Quick Reaction Force Month “Because IT’S ENEMY FROM.”
“We have to have to have it before it gets out of control,” Trump Said.
The Ice Holding Facility in Suburban BroadView has Been Ground Zero for Clashes Bethes Protests and Agents the Trump Administration Announched the Launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago on Sept. 8.

A GROUP OF ICE AGENTS STAND GUARED AT THE FRONT GATE OUTSIDE The ICE Processing Center in Suburban BroadView on Sept. 22.
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For Weeks, Pritzker and Other Local Officials and Business Leaders have ben urging Trump not to intercede in the City, Rejecting White House Claims a National Guard Deployment Lower or that protests against immigration of implications.
The Governor Went so far as to say the 25th amendment should be invoked to remove Trump from office.
“Not only only has dementia set in, but he’s copying tactics of (Russian President) Vladimir Putin, Sending Troops ino Cities, Thinking That’s Sort of Proving Ground for War, or that, Indeed, there’s Sort of Internal War on in in the united states,” Pritzker. South Side News Conference. “Its just, frankly, inane, and i’m concertned for his health.”
“What we can do will be coma to the Troops Being Sento Chicago and to the State of Illinois is immediately Go to Court. We’re prepared to that,” Pritzker Said. “Believe me would be that of the law is on ouis wen it comes to keeping troops out of the City and out of the state.”
Johnson Reject the Idea of Allowing Trump to use chicago as “a playground for his militarized obsession.”
“We’re Talking About Unprecedented Behavior from Individual That, Quite Frankly, has demonstrated that he’s doute-minded and unhabited, and so the best thine we can right now is come with.” The Mayor Said. “WE’RE ALL CLEAR THAT NOT ONLY IS THIS THAHVING OUTSIDS OF THE BOUNDS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THAT TO REQUIRE ALL OF USE TO ENSURE THAT WE’RE PROTECTING PEOPLE.”
State Officials on Tuesday Had No Updates on a Pending Deployment of Troops.
“The President of the United States is not more than the republican republican or into republican state,” Said Pritzker, A Likely 2028 President Contest. “He’s made a list of People that are HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS, and he’s calling US Domestic Enemies. I Mean, Whats Kind of a Country Are We in Here?”
Pritzker has accused trump of attempting to normalize military presence in cities to stifle tournout in the 2026 midterm elections.
Illinois Republicans – Who Rolled Out a Line of Fundraising Merchandise Related to Ice Deployments in Chicago – Say’s Pritzker Who’s Making Things.
“We have stand firmly with the Law Enforcement and Public Servants Who Face Heightened Risk Every Single Day,” Said State Republican Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna. “We Will Continue to Defend the Rule of Law and the Principle That No One Should Ever Be Tarrying Out Their Duty.”