02.09.2025 – 11:55 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
After Los Angeles and Washington, Trump chicago picks out – supposedly to fight crime. It remains unclear what exactly he was up to.
US President Donald Trump has announced an intervention against supposedly sprawling crime in Chicago. “We intervene,” said the Republican in the White House. Trump did not say exactly what he plans to do, how far these plans have thrown, whether the National Guard is used and when the campaign could start.
He has the right because he has the obligation to protect this country, said Trump. This also includes the city of Baltimore (Maryland US state). Both cities are located in states that are led by Democrats. Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and is located in the state of Illinois.
“I will quickly solve the crime problem, just as I did in (Washington) DC,” Trump announced on Tuesday in his online service Truth Social. “Chicago is by far the worst and most dangerous city in the world,” wrote the 79-year-old. The governor there, JB Pritzker, urgently need help, he just doesn’t know yet.
On Wednesday, the Republican said in the White House that he would be happy if the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, would ask him for help for Chicago. However, the President made it clear regardless of this. Pritzker is against Trump’s intervention and accuses him of intimidating political rivals. Chicago would be the third city in which the president intervenes – to Los Angeles and the capital Washington.
Meanwhile, Trump suffered a legal setback when using the National Guard in Los Angeles. A judge ordered that the soldiers currently stationed in the California city of the million do not be allowed to do any police tasks for prosecution. Specifically, it is about arrests, arrests, searches, confiscations, security patrols, traffic controls and security of evidence. The arrangement of the California court is not about the overarching question of whether the National Guard may be in LA at all.
The court’s injunction, which is limited to the state of California, is also relevant because it is currently afraid of the democratically guided city leaders from Chicago that Trump could soon send the military to this city of the million. The President recently described Chicago as the “most dangerous city in the world”.
Judge Charles Breyer wrote. “However, there was neither a rebellion nor were the law enforcement authorities unable to react to the protests and enforce the law.” The decision will only be effective on Friday afternoon (local time) next week. So Trump’s team still has time to act against it.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, complained. The Democrat, which parodies the president on social media, wrote on X in Trump-Manner: “Donald Trump loses again”.
