CHICAGO — llinois Gov. JB Pritzker made a tongue-in-cheek look on ABC’s late-night discuss present “Jimmy Kimmel Stay” Thursday, poking enjoyable at President Donald Trump’s repeated characterization of Chicago as a “hellhole.”
Dressed like a war-zone tv reporter, Pritzker mocked the Trump administration along with his portrayal of a area correspondent “reporting from war-torn Chicago.”
He described scenes of chaos, noting that “the Milwaukee Brewers have are available in to assault our Chicago Cubs,” that residents are “being compelled to eat scorching canine with ketchup” and reporting that town’s “deep dish pizza has gone shallow.”
Nonetheless, he added, “there isn’t any hellscape I’d fairly be in,” throughout the clip filmed on the Madison Road Bridge on Thursday afternoon.
Pritzker has lengthy fought again towards Trump’s plan to usher in Nationwide Guard troops to Chicago. In August, the governor mentioned Trump “has completely no proper, and no authorized means, to ship troops into town of Chicago. And so I reject that notion.”
This clip comes only a day after Trump mentioned Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ought to “be in jail” for his or her failure to guard federal brokers. To which a defiant Pritzker mentioned, “come and get me.”
On his present, Kimmel invited viewers dwelling in so-called “war-ravaged communities” the president plans to occupy with nationwide guard troops — like Chicago and Portland, Oregon — to put up their very own movies on YouTube with the hashtag #ShowMeYourHellhole, so the present could “share your nightmare with the world.”
“Jimmy Kimmel Stay” was pulled off the air for every week in September by ABC after feedback associated to the response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Kimmel’s monologue. Since his return, he has continued his criticism of the Trump administration.
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