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Trump Trashes Chicago IN Chicago — Says Afghanistan is Safer
Donald Trump was in town the other day, marking his first stop in the nation’s third largest city since his inauguration as president almost three years ago.
He wasted no time loosing a full barrage of non-stop insults, scorn, put-downs, ad hominems, and borderline profanity against every political, economic, cultural and social aspect of the City of Chicago.
Still, even though this is perhaps the most Democratic of Democratic Party-run towns, Trump was securely cocooned within an artificial, conservative, Republican comfort zone. Indeed, he held forth as the honored guest of the uber-conservative Conference of International Association of Chiefs of Police.
He told the assembled cops, who hailed from every corner of the country, and most precincts in-between, that Chicago’s reputation as an unrepentant haven for criminals was well deserved, and that the city is just plain “embarrassing to us as a nation.” (He did not spell out exactly who “us” is, though, but we can make an educated guess, right)?
Chicago’s own Superintendent of Police boycotted Trump’s speech and entire visit in protest against Trump’s draconian immigration policies and unremitting, divisive rhetoric. Trump had obviously been well briefed on the Superintendent’s opposition to him and his policies.
