Oak Park, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – After backing off on his suggestion to send the National Guard to Chicago to help fight crime, President Trump is reportedly suggesting it again.
Trump recently said when announcing troops would be going to Memphis to fight crime, he would have preferred Chicago, but blamed “professional agitators” for keeping it from happening.
Now, Governor Pritzker says, Trump is bringing it up again.
“You can’t take anything that he says seriously,” said Pritzker, to reporters in Oak Park Tuesday. “He’s attacking verbally. Sometimes he attacks sending his agents in. Sometimes he forgets. I think he might be suffering from some dementia.”
Pritzker also said to reporters, “He’s losing it.”
Pritzker says he hopes one day Trump wakes up on the other side of the bed and decides to stop talking about Chicago.
Meanwhile, it comes on a day when reports suggest ICE agents had been seen in Chicago and the suburbs rounding up undocumented migrants and taking them into custody. The governor says it’s the President and the Homeland Security secretary stoking the flames of anger and hate.
“It’s the President. It’s Kristi Noem…who wasn’t even willing to answer questions today. She was here for a few hours, unwilling to answers questions about what they’re doing on the ground, unwilling to tell us what ICE is going to do over the next coming weeks,” said Pritzker.
Pritzker was in Oak Park to receive the “Paul Simon Courage in Public Service Award,” described as recognizing” a commitment to compassionate and responsible public policy.”
