President Donald Trump recently repeated a claim he made last week that he’s seen “a force of Black women” on TV pleading with him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago — and experts have thoughts about why the president keeps mentioning Black women.
During a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Tuesday, Trump responded to questions surrounding his threats to send federal troops to Chicago amid his supposed mission to fight crime in the country’s third-largest city — even as crime rates overall in Chicago have fallen. Trump made similar claims about a purported “crime emergency” when he deployed the National Guard in the nation’s capital earlier this month.
When a reporter noted to Trump that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) condemned his threats to come to Chicago, the president unleashed a series of insults at Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, before he began talking about receiving support from Black women in Chicago.
“I see Black women, wearing a red MAGA hat, last night on television [saying] ‘Please let the president come in. My son was attacked, my—’ you have a force of Black women, Black women, they’re like, only Trump. They want Trump to come in,” he said. “And you see them, they’re all over the place in Chicago. Because they’re afraid to go out, and they don’t want their son or their daughter killed.”
