During an October 15 press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump claimed that the people of Chicago, most notably “beautiful Black women,” are walking around the city in MAGA hats, begging for federal forces to rid the city of crime. “Please let the president in and we don’t care how he does it … National Guard, Army, Navy, bring in the Marines,” he imagined these people saying, especially, in his view, “because of the success that we had in D.C.”

Trump has continued to allege that Black women in MAGA hats are “all over the place” in Chicago. “They don’t want to be mugged and shot and everything else,” he said earlier this week, going on to bash Democrats for claiming a federal invasion of the nation’s third-largest city is an unnecessary and illegal intimidation stu

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