It’s about to be an interesting week in Chicago. The still-alive-after-all Donald Trump has spent the past week talking up his impending military attack on the Democrat-controlled city, which aims to replicate his authoritarian crackdown on Washington, DC.
Trump’s goons are busily making preparations to amass red state troops outside the city for the invasion, and have requested that a military base be given to them so it can be transformed into a new immigrant concentration camp to imprison those it plans to drag away screaming into the night.
Chicago isn’t taking the prospect of a Trump invasion lightly. Yesterday, Mayor Brandon Johnson said if Trump wants to take the city, they’re not giving it up without a fight.
In a press conference yesterday, Johnson said he’d signed an executive order forbidding the Chicago police department from working with federal authorities on civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops, and checkpoints, together with blocking cops from wearing masks to hide their identities.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) August 30, 2025
MAJOR BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson JUST signed an executive order that would PREVENT Chicago police from collaborating with the federal agents should they illegally enter the city.
Johnson called the administration "neurotic, impulsive, and out of control."
HE IS… pic.twitter.com/oOTAeNdOpt
Johnson went on to order all city departments to ensure that the constitutional rights of Chicagoans are protected “amidst the possibility of imminent militarized immigration or national guard deployment by the federal government”.
Here’s Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Donald Trump:
— Lucas Sanders
“He is reckless and out of control. He is the biggest threat to our democracy that we’ve experienced in the history of our country.”
More of this please!
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Johnson was asked by a journalist what he thought of federal agents simply following Trump’s orders and replied: “Yeah, and I don’t take orders from the federal government.” He went on to slam Trump as “reckless and out of control”, calling him “the biggest threat to our democracy that we’ve experienced in the history of our country.”
Another asked him whether pushing back against Trump could harden the president’s resolve to smash Chicago’s resistance. Johnson replied:
“Can you imagine if, as a descendant of slaves, if my ancestors would have had that same rationale? ‘Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along and then maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom. Nowhere in the history of America or the world where marginalized people have sat silent and idle have they been able to actually achieve freedom and liberation.”
We’re in uncharted waters now
Right now, Chicago is a tinderbox. All indications are that the city is about to see a massive invasion force of Trump’s troops seizing control of the city and launching a terror campaign against the residents as they snatch anybody they even suspect of being in the country illegally. In DC, it’s been tense and miserable but peaceful, but in Chicago just a single shot fired from either side would be like flicking a lit match into gasoline.
We’re now in uncharted waters, but Trump and his cronies seem eager to push things as far as they can possibly go. And hey, maybe kicking off a second civil war is their ultimate motive for all this provocation. Stay safe, Chicago.
