Trump says Chicago next up for federal crime crackdown (CNN)

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Trump says Chicago next up for federal crime crackdown
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/chicago-national-guard-trump-crackdown

President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago will be the next city that his administration targets for a federal crackdown on crime.

“We’ll straighten that one out, probably next, that will be our next one after this,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “I think Chicago will be our next and then we’ll help with New York.”

The president has credited his federal takeover of Washington, DC’s, police force with driving down crime in the city — touting a weeklong stretch without any murders as a “miracle” despite the fact that such weeks have occurred in DC multiple times so far this year.

Trump also dismissed polling showing that most city residents disapprove of the deployment of federal troops, calling them “fake news” and claiming that residents of Chicago and cities are clamoring for a similar law enforcement crackdown where they live.

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[lame54]

1. You'll take the occupation and like it

[MIButterfly]

2. Is he going to "ride along" with those too? Or is he going to say he's going to ride along and then not do it

because he apparently thinks we all have the short attention span he does? Or maybe he just forgot he said it.

He is completely insane.

He's going to do whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it and who's going to stop him? Who is going to tell him, at long last, "NO! You're not going to do that"?

Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. When will it ever end? You tell me.

[MiHale]

3. That's how he thinks he's going to get to Obama..

Second biggest police force in the nation…it’s not about enforcement of anything.

[BootinUp]

4. That should be a disaster. Nt

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I'll bet Gov. Pritzker will have something to say about that.

[Efilroft Sul]

6. Nothing says freedom like Americans being targeted by its armed forces occupying their cities.

And walls built to keep us in.