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The real reason Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is working so hard to resist Trump
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The reelection of Donald Trump as president of the United States promises great changes in the coming new year. However, there are politicians who have chosen to resist Trump and his administration. They often claim to do so because they believe they are more moral, virtuous, and human than the incoming president. Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson is one of them.
On the morning after the election, after he had campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina, Johnson released an official statement from his mayoral office saying that “our president-elect has made direct threats against the most vulnerable and marginalized in our society.”
He added: “Chicagoans can be assured that they have a mayor who will not bend, who will not break when it comes to protecting our city, our values, and our neighbors. When it comes to fighting back against any hate, we will not flinch.”
There you have it: Brandon Johnson, the mighty moral man who would save us all.
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Only if an ounce of that were true.
The reality is that Johnson has been a force against too many of us Chicagoans. It is because of men like him that I went to the American public for help in raising the funds to build my Economic and Leadership Opportunity Center on the South Side of Chicago. I have not received so much as a good word from him.
This is not surprising, since this man has not done much for public school education. The elementary school down the block from me has barely any kids reading or doing math on grade level. Why doesn’t Johnson, a former teacher, care about these kids? Where is the morality in sentencing kids to schools-in-name only?
It turns out that he was too busy launching a campaign to shut down some of Chicago’s best performing high schools: the CPS Selective Enrollment Schools. Many Black kids, including those from my neighborhood, fled to those schools to escape the failing ones. Now, Johnson wanted to shut down these schools because it wouldn’t be fair to the Black kids stuck in poor performing schools. You can’t make this up.
It was only after public outcry and pushback from a few government officials that Johnson backed off this issue — for now.
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I couldn’t help the irony when Johnson posited him as a defender of the migrants that have moved into the city en masse. He said, “We’re going to defend the people of this city because…President Trump, his threat is not just toward new arrivals, and undocumented families” Mayor Johnson said. “His threats are also against Black families.”
How is he defending Black families when he threatens to shut down schools? And how is he defending Black families when he allows migrants into his city without any vetting and then allocates millions upon millions of dollars to them?
In a recent city meeting, a woman wearing a “Chicago flips red” shirt told Johnson that he was going to be “held accountable” for appointing a deputy mayor for “immigrant, migrant, and refugee rights” and spending freely on these people when the city is so far in debt that it’s not funny.
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Another speaker said in the same meeting, “We gonna talk about this budget, about the strange things that’s happening, because again, your name was on this executive order of May 2023, this executive order for immigration, migrants and refugee rights. You caused all this money to go to illegal immigrants.”
Yet another one said, “No one appointed a monarch to rule over the people of Chicago.”
Mayor Johnson’s response? “Sergeant at arms, please remove these individuals from the chambers.”
Johnson has appointed so many people to his administration that the public no longer has an accurate idea of who is responsible for what. All we know is that far too many of them are making six figures and apparently enough of them are people of color, allowing Johnson to brag that he has the most diverse administration of all time.
He may have that, but is he a moral man who truly cares about his people? Or is he an ideologue who uses resistance to Trump as a shield against his failures as a mayor? I strongly believe it is the latter. Johnson is not a friend to the city of Chicago. He is not a friend to the people. He’s a friend to the old rot of Chicago, institutional corruption.
That is why we must take his resistance against Trump for what it is: self-serving moralistic grandstanding. He is the government for the few who governs against our interests for a better Chicago.
That is why for this coming New Year I have made it my resolution to continue the fight for a better Chicago from my tiny corner in the city. Trump may be the president, but he is nothing without us, The People. That is why we must resist the Brandon Johnsons of our cities.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., spoke candidly on Wednesday, defending her outbursts during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
Omar, along with colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who was seated next to her, appeared on video repeatedly interrupting and gesturing toward Trump several times throughout his speech.
Omar appeared to shout “You are a murderer” and “You’re a liar.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar, right, with Rep. Rashida Tlaib at her side, spoke at a news conference at the State Capitol. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
When appearing on CNN, Omar was pressed by host Wolf Blitzer, who noted that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., asked members of his caucus to either sit in silence or to not attend at all.
“Should you have just boycotted the address? And do you think you violated the guidelines set out by your own leader?” he asked.
“No, I think it was really unavoidable. The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents,” Omar responded.
“Do you have any regrets at all about the interaction we played between you and President Trump just last night?” Blitzer asked.
“I do not, and I think many people look at that moment when the president says, ‘It is our responsibility to protect Americans,’ and he does not acknowledge the fact that two Americans, two of my constituents, two of our neighbors, were killed,” she said. “And it was important for me to just remind the American people that the president and his administration was responsible for killing two American citizens.”
Blitzer proceeded to ask, with hindsight in mind, whether she still thinks she made the right choice by showing up.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., shout at President Donald Trump as he delivers his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol Feb. 24, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I brought four Minnesotans up as guests for the Minnesota delegation. It was important for us to be there, to bear witness, to hold space for our constituents that have lived through an occupation from federal law enforcement, that have been terrorized, that have seen our neighbors been killed and traumatized in so many ways and, so, no. I think it was really important for my constituents to see me there,” she said.
“It was really important to my constituents to hear that. I was reminding the president that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed under this administration.”
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Democrats have rallied around the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good as a means to criticize ICE and immigration enforcement efforts. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
It responded with a Truth Social post from Trump in which he called for critics like Omar and Tlaib to be put on a boat and “send them back from where they came.”
Fox News’ Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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The impact and history of autos in Detroit, The Motor City
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Rex Satterfield hoped to see his 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible snag one of the BASF Great 8 finalist spots at this year’s Detroit Autorama. But winning the Ridler Award — one of the highest honors in the custom car business — was something he didn’t foresee.
“It’s just overwhelming right now,” said the man from Russellville, Tennessee, as he left a ballroom at downtown’s Huntington Place and made his way back to the show floor on Sunday, March 1. “We weren’t expecting this.”
Getting a car recognized as one of the BASF Great 8 vehicles is a win in and of itself as they are considered the “absolute pinnacle of custom automotive craftsmanship worldwide,” according to the show. The cars undergo an intensive judging process.
And this effort had an unexpected and emotional complication with the passing in December 2024 of the original builder, Jeff Wolfenbarger, who was battling cancer even as he continued working on the car named “Elegant Lady.”
Kevin Riffey of Kevin Riffey’s Hot Rods and Restorations in Knoxville stepped in to finish the work Wolfenbarger started. He’d had two other cars in the past make the Great 8. He said the goal with this vehicle was straightforward, calling it a “purpose-built show car.”
From its prominent spot at the front of the show floor, “Elegant Lady” sported a creamy exterior, dubbed Light Coffee. The car carries a 1,000 horsepower Don Hardy race engine. The gauges, wheels and gas tank are custom, and the dash is from a 1956 Pontiac.
Satterfield plans to show the car around some and enjoy the moment with it. He said he’s been a car guy since he was a little kid.
The Ridler Award, named in honor of Detroit Autorama’s first publicist, Don Ridler, comes with a $10,000 prize. It was awarded on the final day of this year’s Detroit Autorama, which ran Friday, Feb. 27-Sunday, March 1. This was the event’s 73rd year.
Eric D. Lawrence is the senior car culture reporter at the Detroit Free Press. Send your tips and suggestions about cool automotive stuff to elawrence@freepress.com. Become a subscriber. Submit a letter to the editor at freep.com/letters.
MILWAUKEE – Forecast from FOX6 Meteorologist Lisa Michaels
Frosty Monday morning with temps in the teens inland to low 20s near the lake.
Mostly sunny to sunny skies on Monday. Highs in the mid-40s inland, upper 30s near the lake.
A total lunar eclipse will happen Tuesday morning, total eclipse from 5-6am. It may be tough to see due to increasing clouds.
Increasing clouds on Tuesday with highs in the low 40s. Chance of rain and storms possible Wednesday through Friday with warming temperatures.
Today: 39 Lake. Mostly sunny.
High: 44°
Wind: SE 5-10
Tonight: Partly cloudy this evening, mostly clear overnight.
Low: 27°
Wind: SE 5
Tuesday: 39 Lake. Mostly cloudy.
High: 43°
Wind: E 5-10
Wednesday:41 Lake. Chance for scattered showers and t-storms.
AM Low: 32° High: 45°
Wind: E 5-10
Thursday: 39 Lake. Mostly cloudy. Chance storms.
AM Low: 37° High: 42°
Wind: NE 5-10
Friday: Chance for showers and t-storms Warmer. Warming at night.
AM Low: 37° High: 57°
Wind: SE 5-15
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with AM rain showers. Blustery with falling afternoon temperatures.
AM Low: 47° High: 53°
Wind: NE 5-10
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