{"id":1039325,"date":"2026-09-02T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1039325\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:13:18","slug":"mayor-governor-fire-back-after-trumps-claims-about-chicago-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1039325\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor, governor fire back after Trump&#8217;s claims about Chicago violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Brandon Johnson did not mince words Tuesday when asked about a recent social media post from President Donald Trump criticizing the city&#8217;s handling of violence following the largest mass shooting in Chicago so far this year. And Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, also a frequent critic of the president, fired back in his own social media post. It started with a pre-dawn post from Trump early Tuesday morning, after a shooting on the South Side over the weekend left one person dead and at least 14 others wounded. Trump&#8217;s subsequent Truth Social post mischaracterized violence in Chicago, and when Johnson was asked about the president&#8217;s comments, he unloaded.READ MORE: https:\/\/wgntv.com\/politics-3\/johnson-fires-back-at-trump-after-chicago-violence-claims\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Brandon Johnson did not mince words Tuesday when asked about a recent social media post from President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1039326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[20174,960,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-1039325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-brandon-johnson","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117202809020030027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}