Accusing President Donald Trump of having dementia and calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) upped his war of words with Trump on Tuesday over Trump ordering federal agents and a small number of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago to help fight rampant crime and illegal immigration in the city, and to protect ICE agents and facilities.
Pritzker was triggered by Trump suggesting using crime ridden “dangerous cities” like Chicago as training for National Guard troops during remarks to generals and admirals assembled for a special meeting at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia earlier Tuesday.
Trump to top military officials: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor.” pic.twitter.com/v9gb2OhhcJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2025
Pritzker spoke at a food insecurity event with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) at the City Colleges of Chicago.
The Heartland Signal posted a video clip of Pritzker opening his remarks to reporters by accusing Trump of having dementia, “It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he’s copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that’s some sort of proving ground for war or that indeed there’s some sort of internal war going on in the United States is just frankly inane, and I’m concerned for his health.”
ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): “It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he’s copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that’s some sort of proving ground for war or that indeed there’s some sort of internal war going on… pic.twitter.com/oGxa5xBl96
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) September 30, 2025
Later in the press conference, Pritzker called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked.
Video clip posted by Forbes Breaking News: “There is something genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked.”
Full video of the press conference by Johnson and Pritzker starts at 53:45.
Governor Pritzker attends the launch of Food Security for Life, started by the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the City Colleges of Chicago to end hunger among their students https://t.co/fKmoQJV7u1
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) September 30, 2025
Section Four of the 25th Amendment describes how to remove an incapacitated president:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Last week, aging rocker and Trump hater Bruce Springsteen called for the 25th Amendment or impeachment of Trump in comments to Time magazine reported by Variety:
Bruce Springsteen keeps slamming Donald Trump because “a lot of people bought into his lies.”
“He doesn’t care about anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day… You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” Springsteen told TIME. “He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”
Bruce Springsteen keeps slamming Donald Trump because “a lot of people bought into his lies.”
“He doesn’t care about anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day… You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply… pic.twitter.com/of9riuMAEx
— Variety (@Variety) September 25, 2025
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