Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker isn’t mincing words. Standing firm in the middle of ongoing Chicago protests surrounding the deployment of federal agents, the Democratic governor dared Donald Trump to follow through on a fiery, jail-threat post.
Earlier Wednesday, Trump took to his social media platform to demand that Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson be “put in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers (sic)!” The former president, recently convicted on 34 felony counts in New York, was responding to reports that Department of Homeland Security agents were facing threats in Chicago.
Pritzker, unshaken, fired back during an MSNBC interview with Jacob Soboroff.
“Let’s start with the idea that this is a convicted felon,” Pritzker said. “I mean, think about that. Who is threatening to jail me? I gotta say, this guy is unhinged. He’s insecure, he’s a wannabe dictator.”
“If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me,” he added.
No charges have been filed against either Pritzker or Johnson, making Trump’s demand more political theater than legal threat — but the rhetoric is quickly heating up.
Soboroff pressed further, asking if Trump might actually follow through.
“Well, you know the expression, ‘Trump Always Chickens Out,’ TACO,” Pritzker quipped, invoking the acronym that’s made its way through political circles and late-night punchlines alike. “And I gotta say, he can’t — we’ve done nothing wrong here. And very importantly, it’s Donald Trump that is breaching the Constitution, breaking the law. We’re taking him to court. And I believe we’re going to win.”
Watch the interview below:
