Mayor Johnson holds media briefing after responding to President Trump's criticism of city's response to crime

MAGA Media Backs Up Trump

Oliver Darcy: “The crime panic is nothing new for right-wing media. For years, it has been a reliable theme, a steady drumbeat of doom that portrays America’s cities as collapsing under the weight of lawlessness. A poll conducted by Gallup last year found that 64 percent of Americans believed that crime in the U.S. had increased over the past year, including 90 percent of Republicans.” “In reality, violent crime has been trending downward nation…

Mayor Johnson holds media briefing after responding to President Trump's criticism of city's response to crime

CHICAGO (WGN) — Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed the media during his weekly briefing on Tuesday, just a day after issuing a response to President Trump's comments regarding potential plans to tackle crime in the city. On Tuesday, Mayor Johnson met with the media at City Hall for a weekly briefing. The briefing comes just a day after President Trump announced he was taking federal control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deploying t…

Chicago Mayor Blasts Trump as ‘Small’ and ‘Intimitated by the Intellectual Prowess of Black Men'

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has ignited a firestorm after unleashing a blistering tirade against President Donald Trump, accusing him of “declaring war on poor people” instead of waging the kind of war on poverty championed by past presidents. The remarks, delivered in a Q&A session following a statement out of the city hall yesterday, took aim at Trump’s character as well as his policies. Johnson called the former president “small” and claime…