Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez recently appeared on NewsNation and blasted Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for refusing to work with Trump and his administration to improve public safety in the city.
While making an explicit reference to the latest rounds of shootings and murders in the city, Lopez asked how many victims the city is willing to permit.
The problem here is that Democrat leaders are being held hostage by the party’s insane base that wants constant war with Trump, even on matters that make perfect sense to the majority of the American people, like cracking down on violent crime.
The Daily Wire has details:
Lopez pressed Johnson and Pritzker to instead work with President Trump and get any help he might offer in order to make the streets of Chicago safer for the people who live there.
“We should be working to make sure that we are in coordination with each other,” Lopez said. “There’s nothing stopping the mayor of the city of Chicago, the governor of the state of Illinois, from picking up the phone and reaching out to the President of the United States and saying, ‘What can we do to be on the same page?’”
“We should all be looking to continuously decrease the number of victims in our city and in our state, and instead we’re getting into this tit-for-tat social media back and forth nonsense, which is only putting the people of Chicago and the people of Illinois in the middle, in the crosshairs of criminals who are going to use this time to exploit and go crazy as we’re continuing to see this weekend where we’ve had multiple mass shootings,” he continued.
Watch the video below:
NEW: Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez *TORCHES* Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov J.B. Pritzker for not collaborating with TRUMP to crack down on crime
“How many victims are we comfortable with? Because that’s ultimately the subtext of what the mayor and the governor are saying is… pic.twitter.com/7WzOBG4Akr
— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) September 1, 2025
Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker are putting their political ambitions (and their egos) above the safety of the people of Chicago. It’s sickening to watch it unfolding in real time as people are shot and killed.
