Donald Trump says his DHS blitz fixed Chicago. But the math and the neighborhoods choking on pepper spray tell a different story. It wasn’t a victory; it was a victory-themed propaganda dressed in tactical gear.
Trump’s latest Truth Social post boasts dramatic drops in crime in Chicago “since the launch” of Operation Midway Blitz. He claimed that shootings are down 35%, robberies 41%, and carjackings almost 50%, with more “assets” coming. The claims do cross-check, but mostly in friendly write-ups repeating his figures. There’s no proof of the statistics in independently published city dashboards tied to the operation’s start date in Sept. 2025.
