Pritzker Bans Trump From Chicago in Brutal Takedown

0:04It's official. Kanks has unleashed the US military against Americans, which is not hyperbolic because he's doing it. He signed this executive order yesterday. President Trump has signed an executive order to establish specialized National Guard units that will address public order issues. That tells me protests, not just, I mean, because that's the only public disturbance that I can think of. What about you? Yeah, I mean, they're doing, they're starting to take over everything. And there's going to blue cities. And he ran on this. I'm going to go after the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, if you're a MAGA person, are your fellow citizens, because they want to be the thought police.

0:53They don't think that we should be able to have free thought. They want to ban books like the Diary of Anne Frank, while at the same time, call everybody an anti-Semite. And yeah, I mean, this is just, this is a full-blown authoritarian play. They don't want people protesting. They want to continue their propaganda to say, oh my God, I have a 90 % approval rating, which actually I think it's in the low 30s. Strong support for him is in the low 20s. And so this is a very unpopular movement, but the only play that they have is the optic play, and they're going to continue with the optics. And I think we're going to see more and more attacks on American citizens.

1:32They're already kidnapping American citizens with masks over their face. And I think it's just going to continue. Well, we know he's in D.C. alleging all of this high crime when D.C. is at the lowest crime rate in 30 years. So he said yesterday, Chicago, here we go. Trump hedges on Chicago plans, but says National Guard is ready. You know, I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians, which it's rich for him to call anybody corrupt or bad. But basically, Chicago is a Democratic stronghold. And so here is what the governor of Illinois had to say in response to Trump.

2:14And he said some really important things. So let's listen in. Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

2:26You are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy. Most alarming, you seem to lack any appropriate concern as our commander in chief for the members of the military that you would so callously deploy as pawns in your ever more alarming grabs for power. Here's what's interesting to me. Other than Gavin Newsom, I haven't heard anybody else call out the slip in his mental faculties. I don't hear it in the media. I get an alert every now and then that says Trump's press conference goes off the rails.

3:13Trump's press conference are dementia ridden nursing home spectaculars. That's what they are. So I'm happy to see J.B. Pritzker calling this out. Yeah, I mean, it's like Captain Obvious, you know, I mean, and this is a guy who on the campaign trail was already showing massive, massive slips in cognitive decline. He tried to give a microphone a blowjob. He bopped around like a little bobber out in the lake with Kristi Noem listening to Ave Maria, droned on about Hannibal Lecter. And all of that was kind of funny when he was campaigning because Democrats operate on assumption politics. We assume Americans won't vote for him.

3:51We assume democracy won't fall. And right now we need to assume that they are going to take the Constitution and rip it up and we're not going to make it to the midterms because there's no other reason for the state's rights people to federalize control of a state who has a governor who is in charge of their streets. There's no other reason to do this other than to stop elections. That's what they're trying to do. They know his health is deteriorating, both physically and mentally, and they have to have some stuff in place because J.D. Vance does not have the risk. They are trying to stop elections.

4:30That's what they're trying to do with this. Nobody's talking about it. They want to stop the midterm elections. I completely agree. And one thing that J.B. Pritzker also called out were the enablers that he has around him, particularly in Congress. Finally, to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous, we are watching and we are taking names.

5:13This country has survived darker periods than the one that we're going through right now. And eventually the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually. If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law. As Dr. King once said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

6:05Humbly, I would add, it doesn't bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times. Do you agree with him that this isn't the darkest spot in American history? I mean, I didn't live through, you know, slavery, but I would think that that would have been a really dark, horrific time. I didn't live through the period where women didn't have the right to vote, but I would imagine that that was a pretty dark, horrific time. I didn't live through the period when, you know, black little girls and boys were trying to walk into a school after they had been desegregated and white people spit on them and hit them and beat them and punched them.

6:57and there was a whites-only bathroom and a whites-only restaurant. And I imagine that that would have been a horribly horrific time. The thing that we have to remember about what he's saying right here is to make America great again is what these people want to return to. They want to return to a time where we have complete segregation. They very much call out Black people, brown people. There's a video that I saw this morning and it's so painful to watch. And it's a Abrego Garcia hugging his wife and his family members and everybody's sobbing uncontrollably because Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Kanks are going to ship him off to Uganda.

7:44And the cruelty is the point. And so they're wanting to return to some of our darkest times. I don't think we're there yet, but I think it is the aspirations and long-term ambition of this administration to return to those times. I completely agree with you because they are doing everything to make America great. Again, like you said, we're going backwards. They want to go backwards. They want white men in complete power. And then I don't hear this a lot other than from independent media, but Governor Pritzker calls out the media. And I am so grateful to hear that because somebody needs to. To the members of the press who are assembled here today, and listening across the country.

8:28I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story. This is not a time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I so often see where the authoritarian creep by this administration is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on who will be helped politically by the president's actions. Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is, a dangerous power grab. I love that he said that.

9:15It is a dangerous power grab. And the media does go back and forth like It's just, oh, well, Donald Trump's sending him to U.S. cities because the crime's bad. Bullshit. That is a lie. That is an absolute lie. I watched the BBC last night, and they were talking about Trump wanting to militarize Chicago. And they had on a Republican, an American Republican consultant and a Democratic consultant. The Republican consultant, because I was just kind of, I was typing on my computer, returning emails. I heard her, and this is a black woman who is a Republican consultant, who repeated the lie that MAGA and Kanks is saying that Chicago is a killing field.

10:01And I popped up my head and I'm looking at the screen watching BBC and I'm just like, I cannot believe they are both sides in this thing. And I cannot believe that this woman is not completely fact checked immediately. And all of those clips that you played by Governor Pritzker are very important. And it's refreshing to hear somebody intelligent that can put sentences together to defend our democracy. But to me, the most important clip from his speech was this one right here. Audience, please listen to this. This is so incredibly important. This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.

10:52This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections. That's it right there. End elections. Militarize our cities and end elections. Somebody is finally saying it. Somebody with clout, somebody who is aware of what's going on. People in independent media have been saying this. We have been saying we're very concerned about making it to the midterms, but somebody is saying it. It is so important that we message this wide and for a very long time because that is their intention.

11:39Their intention is to not have elections again. And so when somebody like J.B. Pritzker says that, all governors and the DNC and Hakeem Jeffries, if you have it in you, start talking about this. This is serious. This is serious because if you don't defend this, he'll start arresting every single one of you. Those are their plans. If we don't have elections, you think you're going to get your seat again, Hakeem? You won't because they'll arrest you. That's how this ends. And it is grave. It is serious. They are not effing around. They're putting up big banners of Trump all over Washington, D.C., which number one has got to deter tourism.

12:26him. But my God, it's just, this is serious, you guys. Okay. Please subscribe to our channel. Make sure we get this video of Pritzker far and wide and the messaging that he is calling right here, because this is what authoritarians do. Historically, you can study it and this is exactly what they do and it should chill you to your bone, but we can still resist. We can still rebel and we We have no choice but to do it. All right, subscribe to our channel and we'll see you all later.