Why Trump tweeted about Chicago tonight -- Rahm Emanuel went after him yesterday

[highplainsdem]

I missed this story, with all the other news, but Philip Rucker, WaPo's WH bureau chief, tweeted about it tonight:

Link to tweet

Rahm Monday: Trump should focus on jobs & edu, not crowd sizes. http://bit.ly/2jv489N

Trump tonight: Clean up Chicago or I’ll send Feds

Here's that article:

http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/emanuel-unloads-trump-focus-on-jobs-education-not-crowd-size/

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday unloaded on President Donald Trump — for the tone of his inaugural address, his preoccupation with the size of the crowd who witnessed that speech, and his promise to reverse what he calls “dangerous” anti-policing sentiments sweeping the nation.

“You didn’t get elected to debate the crowd size at your inaugural. … You got elected to make sure that people have a job, that the economy continues to grow, people have security as it relates to their kids’ education. It wasn’t about your crowd size. It was about their lives and their jobs,” the mayor said after cutting the ribbon at a domestic violence shelter in Uptown.

Emanuel advised Trump to do what he did while working as a political operative for former President Bill Clinton and as former President Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff.

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The mayor was even more troubled that, within hours of his swearing in, Trump took yet another shot at Chicago for the 60 percent surge in homicides and shootings in 2016 that has continued unabated into the new year.

“There were thousands of shootings in Chicago last year alone. … Our country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement and more effective policing,” the Trump administration posted on the White House website.

Trump vowed to preside over a “law and order administration” where the “dangerous anti-police atmosphere” will end.

Emanuel said he, too, is “not happy about” the fact that the bloodshed on Chicago streets has only intensified during the first three weeks of January. As of Monday afternoon, there had been 43 homicides so far this year — nine more than during the same time period last year. Shootings also were up, with 231 people injured from gunfire so far this year compared to 216 injured during the same time frame last year.

Emanuel argued that the answer to that complex problem lies, not in taking the shackles off police officers and returning to controversial stop-and-frisk tactics favored by Trump, but to give officers the training, supervision and “certainty” they need to return to pro-active policing.

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Yeah, that has to be it.

Herr Drumpf feels slighted so he threatens Chicago with martial law.

[Initech]

2. So he'd declare martial law just to settle a petty grudge? He's gone mad with power.

[democrank]

3. I abhor Donald Trump and find him truly frightening, but

Rahm Emanuel has failed Chicago miserably and shouldn't be lecturing anyone about anything.

[mopinko]

10. stop it. this normalizes him.

any comparison that remains in the same order of magnitude w him makes him seem normal. any comparison to a home sapien w a pulse diminishes the magnitude of what we are looking at.

i live here. i would take a 50 year reign of rahm v the next 2 weeks of this asshole.

THIS.IS.NOT.NORMAL.
dont try to frame it in any rational framework.
please.

[NCjack]

4. Ron should tweet Don and say that his sending troops would be a bad idea.

[leanforward]

5. I'm with Rahm

Where are the guns coming from?

[mopinko]

9. indiana.

[GusBob]

6. Yes he seeks revenge, not justice

Nor solutions. The Feds are notoriously bad at solving local crime problems of a complex nature

[MyNameGoesHere]

7. I guess it's time to

Arm up and prepare to defend my city against a foreign invasion from a puppet dictator installed by Russia.

[mopinko]

11. perhaps we need to group up in our state forums.

the illinois forum is dead, as are most state forums. but perhaps that is the place to plan some actions.

[neverforget]

8. Posse Comitatus anyone?

Fuck Trump.