Trump Makes Dire Prediction For Blue City After Weekend Of Violence

President Donald Trump pushed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to seek federal help after over three dozen people were shot and three killed during another bloody weekend in Chicago.

“Chicago violence is unchecked and at record levels. It has never been worse! This weekend 41 people were shot, 3 DEAD. These numbers are becoming normalized. It is out of control! The city will die if the Federal Government, a fine tuned crime fighting machine, is not invited in, by the Mayor or Governor, to HELP,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. 

Trump’s comments came after Chicago police recorded 22 shootings in the city over the weekend. One incident occurred around midnight on Saturday when a person opened fire into a large crowd at Washington Park, Fox32 reported. During that shooting, at least 15 people were shot, including one fatally. 

Pritzker, who has repeatedly fought efforts from Trump to surge law enforcement to Chicago, issued a statement on “gun violence” following the park shooting. No suspect has yet been arrested for the attack. 

“I am awaiting the call. Nobody should be forced to live under these conditions,” Trump said Monday. “Like D.C. and others, they will have almost no crime, FAST! The State and City can’t do what I do. Governor Pritzker, CALL!!!”

Trump’s deployment of federal law enforcement officers and the National Guard to Washington, D.C., has so far yielded over 16,000 arrests, the removal of hundreds of gang members off the streets, and the confiscation of 2,000 illegal firearms. 

At the end of 2025, Trump withdrew the National Guard from Chicago after the Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a lower court ruling siding with Illinois’ challenge to the deployment. 

“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” Trump said at the time. 

Pritzker has downplayed Chicago’s crime, saying it is just part of living in a big city. 

“Look, big cities have crime. There’s no doubt about it. But let’s just pay attention to what President Trump is doing targeting Chicago, overlooking red states that have much higher crime rates,” Pritzker told NBC 5 Chicago when asked in September 2025 if he would be comfortable telling his friends to ride the subway after midnight. 

Some states have taken an opposite approach to Pritzker’s and welcomed a federal law enforcement surge. Officials in Tennessee worked closely with federal law enforcement to crack down on crime in Memphis, a city long plagued with violent crime.