President Donald Trump recently repeated a claim he made last week that he’s seen “a force of Black women” on TV pleading with him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago — and experts have thoughts about why the president keeps mentioning Black women.
During a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Tuesday, Trump responded to questions surrounding his threats to send federal troops to Chicago amid his supposed mission to fight crime in the country’s third-largest city — even as crime rates overall in Chicago have fallen. Trump made similar claims about a purported “crime emergency” when he deployed the National Guard in the nation’s capital earlier this month.
When a reporter noted to Trump that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) condemned his threats to come to Chicago, the president unleashed a series of insults at Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, before he began talking about receiving support from Black women in Chicago.
“I see Black women, wearing a red MAGA hat, last night on television [saying] ‘Please let the president come in. My son was attacked, my—’ you have a force of Black women, Black women, they’re like, only Trump. They want Trump to come in,” he said. “And you see them, they’re all over the place in Chicago. Because they’re afraid to go out, and they don’t want their son or their daughter killed.”
Trump made similar claims about Black women in Chicago while speaking to reporters last week.
He said that “African-American ladies, beautiful ladies” were “screaming for us to come.”
″[They’re] saying ‘Please President Trump, come to Chicago, please,’” he said at the time.
It’s unclear who the president has been referring to each time he’s repeated these claims about a supposed “force” of Black women in Chicago who support him sending troops to the city. But there has since been a handful of Black women in the Windy City who have come forward to claim that the president was talking about them.
In an article published Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune interviewed Chicago Flips Red, a group of Black Trump supporters who told the publication that they believe their presence at city council meetings and their ongoing vocal support for Trump caught the president’s attention.
The publication also interviewed a woman named Patricia Easley, who started the group ChicagoRed, who also thought the president was talking about her. Vocal groups of Black Trump supporters in Chicago who…
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