Chicago mayor calls Trump's federalization threats 'beneath the honor of our nation,' protests planned

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday shot back at President Donald Trump's probable plans to temporarily federalize the city calling on citizens to protect Chicago from Donald Trump Johnson was responding to one of Trump's Truth Social posts which stated he loves the smell of deportations in the morning and Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR A photo accompanying Trump's post manifested him photoshopped into the city with fire and military helicopters overtaking the iconic Chicago skyline TRUMP ESCALATES FIGHT WITH PRITZKER AS BLOODY CHICAGO WEEKEND SPARKS TROOP WARNING Chipocalypse Now was also scribbled on the bottom left of the picture The President s threats are beneath the honor of our nation but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution Johnson wrote in a response on X We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump The Coalition Against the Trump Agenda CATA and at least a dozen other organizations planned a rally for p m Saturday in the Congress Plaza Garden in response to Trump s threats to send federal troops into Chicago despite no requests from local or state leaders Trump s threats are racist and his asserts that crime is out of control in Chicago are false CATA organizers wrote in a comment It is just a pretext to continue his white supremacist plans to let ICE loose in our cities and detain and deport as numerous immigrants as he can WHITE HOUSE ACCUSES PRITZKER ILLINOIS DEMS OF WHINING WHILE CHICAGO CRIME RAGESFrank Chapman executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression added that violent crime in Chicago reached its lowest point since The people of Chicago know Trump is a racist and a liar and have shown militant opposition to his policies manifested greater part of late in the Workers Over Billionaires protest on Labor Day when Chicagoans cheered as Mayor Johnson shouted No Federal Troops in the city of Chicago Chapman wrote in the comment It is unclear why the organization decided to pick the p m time frame as opposed to a time when there is a larger time period of daylight The coalition also posted an exigency protest plan noting that if federal troops are deployed before p m they will march near Congress Plaza at p m that same day If federal troops are deployed after p m organizers explained protesters will march at p m the next day according to the coalition's website Our Coalition is prepared to hit the streets as soon as federal troops are deployed in our city the coalition wrote on its site We need the broadest unity workable to fight back against Trump s escalating attacks against working and oppressed people THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED PRITZKER RAILS AGAINST 'UN-AMERICAN' REALIZABLE NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT BY TRUMPThe conflict comes after Trump shared there would be a federal surge in the city similar to the action in Washington D C which could include National Guard troops and immigration administration Democratic leaders including Johnson and Illinois Gov JB Pritzker have aggressively pushed back on the idea Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez a Democrat informed Fox News Channel s Fox Statement Sunday he thinks a federal surge would be helpful Even though we see our statistics are trending in the right direction who would argue against making them trend even further even lower meaning less casualties on the street Lopez mentioned It s absolutely asinine to me hear my Democratic colleagues say that we don t want more help CATA did not forthwith respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment Fox News Digital's Cameron Arcand contributed to this review