Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker fired back at Donald Trump, claiming that Chicago does not want the National Guard deployed after the president indicated on Tuesday that it is a matter of when, not if, troops will be sent to the Windy City.

“I’m aware that the President of the United States likes to go on television and beg me to call and ask him for troops,” Pritzker said during a press conference. “I find this extraordinarily strange as Chicago does not want troops on our streets.”

The Democratic governor said that he has experience of asking the president for assistance only to have the “rug pulled out from underneath me when execution meets reality.”

“I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again,” Pritzker said.

The governor warned that the president is positionin

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