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Jilly_in_VA

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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 12:38 PM Friday

Blue Gov Joins Kimmel to Skewer Trump's 'Hellscape' Spin

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker reported live from “war torn” Chicago to roast Donald Trump’s “hellscape” claims.

“People are being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them,” Pritzker joked in a video Jimmy Kimmel played during his monologue Thursday night. “As you can see, there’s utter mayhem and chaos on the ground. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs,” he also quipped.

Trump and his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have been trying to justify sending the National Guard into Illinois as his administration wages war against the country’s Democratic strongholds.

Pritzker revealed last week, “The Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”

Still, Trump and his officials have insisted the intervention is necessary because Chicago is “the most dangerous city in the world,” despite the city’s reportedly declining violent crime rate. Kimmel joked Thursday that Trump operates his Department of War “as if he’s getting his intelligence briefings from reruns of The Walking Dead."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/blue-gov-joins-kimmel-to-skewer-trumps-hellscape-spin/

JB figured out where he's getting the briefings from. I knew it wasn't anyone intelligent.

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Hot dogs with ketchup!!!! Nooooooo!!!! Clouds Passing Friday #1
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