President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that he has his eye on Chicago. “When we’re ready, we’ll go ahead and we’ll straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C. Chicago is very dangerous,” he said.

Trump also took a jab at Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, saying, “I haven’t spoken to the mayor. He’s grossly incompetent.”

Trump earlier in the day met with reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to talk about the impact of his recent order of federal control of law enforcement in the district surrounding the nation’s capital. He pointed out that since the takeover and deployment of National Guard troops to assist local law enforcement, there has not been a murder in D.C.

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