Overview
- At a Wednesday White House press conference, Trump joked that Miller’s “truest feelings” might be “too far” to share, then thanked him for “an unbelievable job.”
- On Fox News’ Hannity that night, Miller called Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker a “moron” who “hates America” and claimed Chicago is “more dangerous than Baghdad.”
- Miller cast Pritzker’s opposition as resistance to Trump’s plan to deploy federal agencies and the National Guard in Chicago, which the governor and Mayor Brandon Johnson have rejected.
- Pritzker said Thursday that Miller is pushing authoritarian tactics and “abusing” what he called Trump’s “diminished capacity,” as legal and political fights over deployments continue.
- Coverage notes Chicago’s violent crime has declined this year and that Baghdad comparisons are hard to verify, while Miller has promoted aggressive goals such as 3,000 immigration arrests per day.