Donald Trump boldly suggested that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) should “beg” him for help in cracking down on crime in Chicago.
On Monday, Trump was asked by a reporter on Air Force One if he had a message for Pritzker amid their clash over the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops into Chicago as well as other Democratic-led major cities.
“I think he should beg for help, because he’s running a bad operation, and he’s letting people be killed in his city,” Trump said. “I love Chicago. Chicago can be a great city again, and very quickly, I would have Chicago cleaned out and criminals removed.”
He later added: “Pritzker should ask me to do it.”
The president went on to laude himself for taking down “1,700 career criminals” in Washington, D.C.
