As Illinois awaits the deployment of National Guard members on Chicago area streets, President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning took aim at Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, writing on social media that both should be jailed for “failing to protect” ICE officers.

Trump wrote, “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” on Truth Social.

Pritzker responded Wednesday morning, writing on X, “I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

And speaking WBEZ’s In the Loop show with Sasha-Ann Simons, Johnson called Trump, “unstable.”

“We know that. He’s a double-minded man, and he is also very simple minded. And i

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