President Donald Trump on Tuesday night published a tweet threatening to “send in the feds” if Chicago does not reduce its crime rate, and Trump appeared to use numbers shown on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show on Tuesday.
If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible “carnage” going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017
O’Reilly on Tuesday night displayed numbers showing that there have been 228 shootings and 42 homicides in Chicago so far this year.
However, the numbers don’t line up with the statistics recorded by the Chicago police. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told NBC News that there have been 38 homicides and 182 shootings in the city so far in 2017.
Trump also published a tweet Tuesday night congratulating Fox News on its ratings for the inauguration and bashing CNN as “fake news.”
Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings. They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN – public is smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017
tRUMP Thanks the GOP Infomercial channel WTF!
Squirrel!!!
Fuck this is exhausting…
Cheeto Donnie should be embracing the “Chicago Chaos” as it is mostly minorities, his least favorite demographic, involved.
2017, the year reality died.