'Unhinged': Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responds to Trump threat to deploy National Guard to Chicago
Source: Scripps News
Posted 5:46 PM, Sep 02, 2025
and last updated 5:46 PM, Sep 02, 2025
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is again pushing back on President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to combat crime.
Speaking Tuesday at a press conference, Pritzker called the president "unhinged" and suggested firmly that he has no intention of calling the president to ask for troops to be sent in.
"When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything," Pritzker said. "Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
It comes after President Trump on Tuesday called Chicago a "hell hole" and hinted again at sending troops into the city to fight crime.
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