Accusing President Donald Trump of getting dementia and calling for the twenty fifth Modification to be invoked, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) upped his confrontation with Trump on Tuesday over Trump ordering federal brokers and a small variety of Nationwide Guard troops deployed to Chicago to assist combat rampant crime and unlawful immigration within the metropolis, and to guard ICE brokers and amenities.
Pritzker was triggered by Trump suggesting utilizing crime ridden “harmful cities” like Chicago as coaching for Nationwide Guard troops throughout remarks to generals and admirals assembled for a particular assembly at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia earlier Tuesday.
Trump to prime navy officers: “I instructed Pete, we must always use a few of these harmful cities as coaching grounds for our navy. Nationwide Guard, however our navy. As a result of we’re going into Chicago very quickly. That is an enormous metropolis with an incompetent governor. Silly governor.” pic.twitter.com/v9gb2OhhcJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2025
Pritzker spoke at a meals insecurity occasion with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) on the Metropolis Faculties of Chicago.
The Heartland Sign posted a video clip of Pritzker opening his remarks to reporters by accusing Trump of getting dementia, “It seems that Donald Trump not solely has dementia set in, however he’s copying ways of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, pondering that that’s some form of proving floor for battle or that certainly there’s some form of inside battle occurring in the US is simply frankly inane, and I’m involved for his well being.”
ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): “It seems that Donald Trump not solely has dementia set in, however he’s copying ways of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, pondering that that’s some form of proving floor for battle or that certainly there’s some form of inside battle occurring… pic.twitter.com/oGxa5xBl96
— Heartland Sign (@HeartlandSignal) September 30, 2025
Later within the press convention, Pritzker referred to as for the twenty fifth Modification to be invoked.
Video clip posted by Forbes Breaking Information: “There’s something genuinely unsuitable with this man and the twenty fifth Modification should be invoked.”
Full video of the press convention by Johnson and Pritzker begins at 53:45.
Governor Pritzker attends the launch of Meals Safety for Life, began by the Higher Chicago Meals Depository and the Metropolis Faculties of Chicago to finish starvation amongst their college students https://t.co/fKmoQJV7u1
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) September 30, 2025
Part 4 of the twenty fifth Modification describes methods to take away an incapacitated president:
Each time the Vice President and a majority of both the principal officers of the chief departments or of such different physique as Congress might by legislation present, transmit to the President professional tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Home of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his workplace, the Vice President shall instantly assume the powers and duties of the workplace as Performing President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President professional tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Home of Representatives his written declaration that no incapacity exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his workplace until the Vice President and a majority of both the principal officers of the chief division or of such different physique as Congress might by legislation present, transmit inside 4 days to the President professional tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Home of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his workplace. Thereupon Congress shall resolve the difficulty, assembling inside forty-eight hours for that objective if not in session. If the Congress, inside twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress shouldn’t be in session, inside twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of each Homes that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his workplace, the Vice President shall proceed to discharge the identical as Performing President; in any other case, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his workplace.
Final week, getting older rocker and Trump hater Bruce Springsteen referred to as for the twenty fifth Modification or impeachment of Trump in feedback to Time journal reported by Selection:
Bruce Springsteen retains slamming Donald Trump as a result of “lots of people purchased into his lies.”
“He doesn’t care about anyone however himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day… It’s a must to face the truth that a great variety of Individuals are merely comfy together with his politics of energy and dominance,” Springsteen instructed TIME. “He’s the residing personification of what the twenty fifth Modification and impeachment have been for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of historical past.”
Bruce Springsteen retains slamming Donald Trump as a result of “lots of people purchased into his lies.”
“He doesn’t care about anyone however himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day… It’s a must to face the truth that a great variety of Individuals are merely… pic.twitter.com/of9riuMAEx
— Selection (@Selection) September 25, 2025
