WATCH: Chicago Mayor Reacts to Texas National Guard Preparing to Leave (Watch on YouTube Here)
Chicago’s crime crisis did not disappear overnight, but you wouldn’t know that from listening to Chicago’s Democrat mayor.
This week, Mayor Brandon Johnson stood at a press conference and claimed that crime fell “because of him,” while attacking the Texas National Guard and President Trump for “wasting taxpayer dollars.”
The performance would have been comical if the stakes were not so serious.
Just hours before the event, at 11:00 p.m., an unknown individual attempted to start a fire outside City Hall.
Security footage shows the suspect lighting the exterior of the building before fleeing.
A CPD officer put out the flames before they spread. Instead of focusing on the conditions that allow attempted arson outside the city’s central government building, the mayor pivoted to politics.
He called the National Guard withdrawal an “unconditional surrender by the Trump administration,” as if the presence of Texas troops—not Chicago’s own governance—were the reason the city remains unsafe.
According to the mayor, Guard troops “sat idle for six weeks doing nothing,” a claim that conveniently ignores why Texas deployed them in the first place: to support overwhelmed border states and help cities impacted by the migrant influx created by Democrat sanctuary policies.
Chicago asked for migrants, boasted about being a sanctuary city, and then attacked Texas when the consequences arrived.
The mayor also complained that these deployments cost “hundreds of millions of dollars,” even though his own administration spends billions on bureaucracy and programs that have failed to reduce violence.
He criticized federal spending on Argentina while ignoring the billions Chicago spends without improving basic services.
Meanwhile, the attempted arson outside City Hall demonstrates exactly why a heightened security presence has been necessary.
He then targeted CPB official Greg Bovino, whom he claimed “left a trail of tears” and “undermined” the city’s work, even though federal officers arrived in September, and yet the mayor took credit for crime reductions from the summer months.
His argument was so weak that he joked Trump must think “September counts as a summer month.”
What he did not explain is how a city with increasing violence, collapsing public schools, and overflowing migrant shelters can possibly credit its problems to Texas or Trump.
The mayor framed the withdrawal as a victory against “unconstitutional federal overreach” and claimed Trump is waging a “war on poor and working people.”
But under Democrat leadership, Chicago remains one of the most dangerous cities in America, with residents fleeing, businesses closing, and families begging for basic safety.
While Democrats look for scapegoats, Republicans—including President Trump and Governor Abbott—continue pushing policies that defend law enforcement, secure the border, and restore order.
Chicago doesn’t need more press conferences. Chicago needs leadership that tells the truth.
