‘He is CRAZY!!!’ Trump Trashes ‘Weak and Pathetic’ Pritzker Over Chicago Killings, Calls D.C. a ‘CRIME FREE ZONE’

President Donald Trump trashed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Saturday, calling the Democrat “CRAZY” and “pathetic” over crime in the city of Chicago. He then described Washington, D.C. as a “CRIME FREE ZONE” in a follow-up on his Truth Social app.

Trump has floated the idea of taking his the crackdown on crime and illegal immigration to Chicago, a city with so much violent crime it has been referred to as “Chi-Raq” in popular culture as well as in a Spike Lee film.

Chicago recorded 573 homicides in 2024, which is the most of any U.S. city. But despite such alarming statistics, the governor and other Democrats have repeatedly claimed there’s no crime problem in the major city. Many media outlets have embraced that talking point despite voluminous prior reporting on the true extent of the problem and the threat faced by Chicagoans, particularly minority residents. As a result, a war of words between Trump and Pritzker has been ongoing for weeks, and Saturday was no exception.

“Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT”

A short time later, he followed up with a post about his crime crackdown in Washington.

“DC is virtually, in just 14 days, a CRIME FREE ZONE,” he wrote. “The people living and working there are ecstatic!!!”

Chicago’s Democrat mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order this week ordering police officers in the city not to take part in any Federal crackdown in the city, should Trump order one, saying, “our people have not asked for this!”