The string of Juneteenth weekend shootings that left eight dead and 39 wounded in Chicago sparked a new round in the war of words between President Donald Trump and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker — and raised fresh questions about public safety in the Windy City.
The explosion of gun violence was all Trump needed to go off on Pritzker and Chicago, two familiar targets of his across both administrations, to repeatedly claim on social media that he could “fix” the problem and demanded that governor ask for federal help (read: send in ICE and the National Guard). It prompted Pritzker in turn to mock the president’s botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and his failure to anticipate the Strait of Hormuz would wind up closed “if he went to war with Iran.”
