![\"Illinois](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1a5b8b91-e073-4b22-9907-dd8ceea8395b_7d72672e.jpg\" "\\"Illinois")
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Photo: AP<\/p>\nIn a scathing critique of US President Donald Trump, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a man who\u2019s suffering dementia,\u201d Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Chicago Tribune. \u201cThis is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can\u2019t get it out of his head. He doesn\u2019t read. He doesn\u2019t know anything that\u2019s up to date. It\u2019s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The governor\u2019s comments came as National Guard troops from Texas were assembling at a US Army Reserve training centre in far southwest suburban Elwood and Trump\u2019s administration was moving forward with deploying 300 members of the Illinois National Guard for at least 60 days over the vocal and legal objections of Pritzker and other local elected leaders.<\/p>\n
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Photo: AP<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has said the troops are needed to protect federal agents and facilities involved in its ongoing deportation surge and has sought to do much the same in Portland and throughout the state of Oregon, though those efforts have been stymied so far by temporary court rulings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a scathing critique of US President Donald Trump, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,157,119384,28081,12,5629,116773,119383,67877,45744,3,2232,18223,52825,25244,1022,21,19,22,20,25,119385,24],"class_list":["post-208361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-democratic","tag-donald-trump","tag-illinois","tag-illinois-national-guard","tag-insurrection-act","tag-j-b-pritzker","tag-national-guard","tag-news","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-posse-comitatus-act","tag-republican","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-army-reserve","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}