Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York, facing sinking approval ratings on practically every front and continuously dogged by questions about his relationship with a deceased sex offender.

Donald Trump has turned his sights on a city that is

now bracing to resist his authoritarian overreach. Here is what Donald Trump had to say in the last

hour, essentially threatening to deploy troops to the streets of an American city.

Do you mind of bought Chicago, though? Well, we're going in. I didn't say when, we're going in.

When you lose, look, I have an obligation.

This isn't a political thing.

I have an obligation.

To do what?

It wasn't totally clear.

Trump went on, though, to slam the city of Chicago, calling it a, quote, hellhole.

On true social, Donald Trump called Chicago the murder capital of the world.

It is not the murder capital of the world.

He also called the city of Chicago, quote, the worst and most dangerous city in the world.

Actually, Governor Prisker is responding to all this. Let's listen to that.

And Illinois. I'm going to do my best to share what we know as of today and speak frankly to the

people of Illinois. Rumors have been swirling about what the White House has planned, and

sifting fact from fiction has been increasingly difficult because Donald Trump's administration

is not working in coordination with the city of Chicago, Cook County, or the state of Illinois.

I want to take a moment at the top of my remarks to note

how truly extraordinary it is for the federal government to refuse to coordinate with local

law enforcement and government. Our state police regularly works with the FBI, the ATF, the DEA, to go after gangs and gun runners and drug cartels.

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