One day after the Texas National Guard arrived in Chicago, Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social, writing that Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be jailed.
“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!,” Trump wrote.
The president has argued that troops are needed solely in Democratic cities to counter what he deemed to be violent protests against ICE. But the violence seems to be stemming from ICE agents.
Pritzker took to the Bad App to say that he is not backing down.
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism? pic.twitter.com/TieJ2irYv5
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) October 8, 2025
The governor further wrote that, “His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street,” adding, ‘Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for “how they look.”’
