Through Daniel Johnson
September 6, 2025
“The president’s threats are under the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our constitution,” mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson placed on social media.
After Donald Trump seemed to threaten Chicago with an invasion of the national guard using his favorite communication device, Memes responded to his social account, leaders in Illinois responded with rapid and strong convictions of both his message and Toon.
According to The Chicago Sun-TimesTrump made different references To the film ‘Apocalypse Now’ from 1979, where Trump apparently threw himself in the role of Lieutenant -Kolonel Kilgore. In a view of Robert Duvall’s delivery of the often cited “I love the scent of Napalm in the morning”, Trump has changed his post to read: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”, a clear reference to the film.
The implication is both clear and disturbing, according to the reaction of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on X on September 6. Pritzker stated that the function, which the official account of the White House has also posted on the social media site, is “not normal.”
He continued: “The president of the United States threatens to wage war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump is not a strong man, he is a frightened man. Illinois will not be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
Likewise, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago used his X account to call on the citizens of the city to protect each other in the midst of more lawless threats aimed at the city of Trump and the Trump government.
“The president’s threats are under the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our constitution. We must defend our democracy against this authoritarianism and protect Chicago against Donald Trump,” Johnson wrote.
As a resident of Chicago and former member of the Chicago city council and the former CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times From 2017-2019 Edwin Eisendrath said, said The guardianThe National Guard Does not solve observed problems with crime. Moreover, the history of Chicago as a city of activists is not good for a deployment of troops in the city.
“If you think of the social action you have seen in history, whether the Pullman attacks a century ago, or Haymarket, or the Early Union movement, or what we did in the civil rights movement, or the organization for the Women’s March, Chicagoans are organized. So we are not helpless,” he said the outlet.
Sjonia Harper, a resident of Bronzeville, one of the most famous historic black neighborhoods of Chicago, also acknowledges the pattern in Trump’s calling in to invade certain cities throughout the country that he says they are dealing with unacceptable crime figures.
‘It will not just end [Chicago]. It will expand. He is already talking about New Orleans, and if you think of all the cities he is talking about – La, Black Mayor; DC, black mayor; Chicago, black mayor; Baltimore, black mayor; New Orleans, black mayor. We must be able to call it for what it is, “Harper noted.
According to Matt Conroy, a Democrat who applies for election in the fifth Congress district of Chicago, the federal troops will probably ‘terrorize’ black and Latinx communities and at the same time taxpayers cost an exorbitant sum of money.
“Instead of tackling the main cause of this, they just do what they think looks good in front of the TV and pretend to be a strong authoritarian authoritarian, and that is all that Donald Trump really wants to be. What they do is completely illegal. [Trump could] Call the upstanding law, but [it’s important] To stay together, to have a plan, to know your rights and to be respectful for law enforcement, so as not to escalate and provide the situation [Chicago residents] With extra resources, “pointed to Conroy.
To this end, Denise Poloyac, a board member for the indivisible Chicago Alliance, indicated in her comments to the exhaust valve that for Chicagoans the best recipe for federal over -range is solidarity.
“We cannot be effective if we do not act together, and I think we are pulling our power from each other. I think that is the power of Chicago, and that is what will help us through this, and, you know, I think that is the power of many places in this country. I think that is what Trump’s administration does not understand that we are in a community,” she notices.
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