Police chief skipping Trump's 1st Chicago visit as president

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Don Babwin, Associated Press
Updated 8:58 pm CDT, Tuesday, October 22, 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump's appearance next week at a police chiefs conference will be his first visit as president to Chicago, a city he has ridiculed for years. The city's top cop plans to skip the speech, even though he's hosting the event.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson's apparent snub of Trump's speech Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference is the latest chapter in a long and contentious relationship between the Republican president and the nation's third-largest city, a Democratic stronghold.

"The values of the people of Chicago are more important to him than anything that could be discussed at that speech," Johnson's spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, said shortly after the White House announced Trump's planned address at the conference.

Guglielmi added that Johnson will be hosting and attending several events at the conference.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Trump-to-make-first-presidential-visit-to-Chicago-14553639.php

[lunasun]

1. Maybe Johnson wishes he could be with this group if it wasn't for his duty as superintendent

https://www.indivisiblechicago.com/trump-protest-updates-10-28-19
Resist

From link
Even before that, he drew the ire of city officials when he attached 20-foot-tall letters spelling "TRUMP" on the side of his Trump International Hotel and Tower. Trump took great pleasure when then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel concluded there was nothing he could do about the letters, no matter how "architecturally tasteless" they were.

Trump blamed the Chicago Tribune's architecture critic for stirring up opposition about the signage, calling him a "third-rate architectural critic." It was a precursor to his more recent ridicule of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as either a "third-rate" or "third-grade" politician

[LiberalFighter]

2. If they were smart they would limit the amount of time DT talks.

And if he goes over they have several options. 1) Turn his mic off. 2) Have a harsh bright spotlight on him. 3) Play music behind the curtains that drowns him out.

[VarryOn]

3. Maybe he can slip out to his car for a nap, instead.

Sorry, couldnt help it..

[mucifer]

5. Yup!!

[LuckyLib]

4. This what visible leaders need to do. Make a show of not showing up, not dignifying

him as having any validity whatsoever.

[amcgrath]

6. No police chief

Wants to be photographed alongside a criminal

[LawnKorn]

7. Is Trump bringing doughnuts?

"And they are the best doughnuts too!"