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Monday, Aug 25, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller

* President Trump last week

And after we do this, we’ll go to another location, and we’ll make it safe also. We’re going to make our country very safe. We’re going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out, probably next that will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough. And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come in. They’re wearing red hats, just like this one, but they’re wearing red hats. African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, ‘Please, President Trump, come to Chicago. Please.’ I did great with the Black vote, as you know, and they want something to happen, so I think Chicago will be our next.

* The Black ladies in the red hats belong to @FlipChicagoRed. The group has been relentlessly hyped by outlets like Fox News and made its bones by pitting Black people against migrants…


* Center Square has also highlighted them. Video

More here, and here, and here, and here.

* For some reason, Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg never heard of them before. But he did a bit of digging

So I asked: She sincerely believes Chicago will benefit from the National Guard patrolling its streets?

“Yes, I do,” said Carter-Walters, who lives in Marquette Park. “Our communities are out of control. The destruction. The devastation of what’s happening. We are being displaced out of our homes by illegal aliens.

“I stay on the South Side of Chicago. I’m living the experience. You can’t sit in your car without worrying about being robbed, mugged, shot, carjacked. We definitely need something to be done.”

She said her group has only eight members, but more are out there.

       

13 Comments »
  1. - ChicagoBars - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 10:09 am:

    Based on their usual turnout at Chicago City Hall public comment periods…a membership of eight seems a little high.


  2. - Candy Dogood - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 10:17 am:

    ===She said her group has only eight members, but more are out there.===

    How many of those eight are registered voters in the State of Illinois?


  3. - DS - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 10:17 am:

    Lining up against due process is despicable.


  4. - Give us Barabbas - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 10:19 am:

    This needs Kanye to insert himself into it to make it even more of a circus. When Putin went after Crimea he sent in fake dissidents begging for relief from “oppression”. And brown shirts are so last season…


  5. - JS Mill - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 10:27 am:

    =Our communities are out of control. The destruction. The devastation of what’s happening. We are being displaced out of our homes by illegal aliens.=

    The language is so over the top and people that don’t go to Chicago seem to just take it at face value. I was all over Chicago this summer and visit frequently (liver there in my late 20″s too) and never had a problem. Never afraid. Not downtown, not in Chinatown, Pilsen, west side, not anywhere. I know crime exists but this idea that “illegal aliens” are displacing people is just a lie. Gentrification? Ok, you have a much different argument there. The upper middle class millenials and gen z seem to be displacing everyone. I kid, a little.


  6. - Montrose - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:01 am:

    The irony is that if he deploys troops, they won’t be in the neighborhoods those ladies are talking about (not those neighborhoods or anywhere needs them) is not where they will be. This is a performance, so it will be staged in the Loop, mag mile, etc. It’s about visuals. Not about substance. (Though real people will be harmed if he does this.)


  7. - low level - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:06 am:

    Ladies, they aren’t going to the South or West Side. They are staying downtown. Watch.


  8. - here we go again - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:14 am:

    Dems big mad that President Trump is making people safer and saving lives.


  9. - Michael McLean - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:25 am:

    The ‘Chicago Flips Red’ folks are a common sight at city hall. They dominate public comment and box out other groups who are trying to speak about the actual subject matter of the meetings. Its really frustrating.


  10. - low level - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:31 am:

    ==Dems big mad that President Trump is making people safer and saving lives.==

    Lol. If they were actually doing that I might be supportive but they always stay in the safe parts of cities.


  11. - Johnny B - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:34 am:

    How dare they speak out against a Mayor with a 26% approval rating

    Not sure what he did to improve from 7 to 26%

    Must be people more Democrats appreciate his pushback to Trump


  12. - Banish Misfortune - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:48 am:

    I attend a lot of concerts at Millennium Park. They are over now. They are also very safe. It would be very scary to have a bunch of thugs with face masks wandering around grabbing people for unknown reasons. Keep them out of Chicago. No armed Trump MAGA thugs!


  13. - Leap Day William - Monday, Aug 25, 25 @ 11:51 am:

    == She said her group has only eight members, but more are out there. ==

    Insert “There are dozens of us! DOZENS!” GIF of Tobias from Arrested Development here.


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