Trump claims Chicago is 'world's most dangerous city'. The four most violent ones are all in red states
As Donald Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore, ostensibly to quell violence, a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But not Jackson, Birmingham, St Louis or Memphis.
An analysis of crime trends over the last four years shows two things. First, violent crime rates in America’s big cities have been falling over the last two years, and at an even greater rate over the last six months. The decrease in violence in America is unprecedented.
Second, crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership. But the president focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states, sidestepping political conflict with red Republican governors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent
Yeah, no. He just wants to start a fight with blue state governors.
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