President Donald Trump is back on the war path against another blue state governor.

Illinois Democrat JB Pritzker has become the latest subject of Trump’s criticism. The president referred to the governor as a ‘slob’ and suggested that he should ‘spend more time in the gym,’ during a session in the Oval Office on Monday.

In response to the president’s remarks, Pritzker addressed the issue in his own Monday press conference held in Chicago, remarking that ‘from [his] perspective, it takes one to know one on the weight question.’

‘The president himself is not in good shape. He ought to respond to that,’ he went on.

This exchange between the two figures follows the president’s statement on Friday, where he mentioned considering sending National Guard troops to Chicago, inspired by the success of his efforts in Washington, D.C.

Attorney General Pam Bondi shared on X Monday that over 1,000 arrests had been conducted and over 100 illegal guns had been seized amid Trump’s push to make D.C. safe again.

Mere hours after Trump’s Oval Office Remarks, Pritzker warned the president that ‘If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.’

Last week, Trump said he was considering Chicago and New York for troop deployments, adding that Chicago was ‘a mess.’ 

‘You have an incompetent mayor – grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That will be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough,’ the president noted at the time.

President Donald Trump talks to journalists after signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker speaks as he takes a Chicago water taxi from Michigan Avenue stop, on the way to a press conference in Chicago, Illinois, on August 25, 2025

U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver, who serves New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District, has called out Trump for targeting liberal cities run by Black mayors during his crime crackdown. Both Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are Black.

The congresswoman told Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias during an appearance on the Defending Democracy Podcast that the president’s ‘number one targets are cities that are led by black mayors.’

McIver also believes that Trump’s rhetoric of ‘Liberation Day’ is rooted in racism.

‘When he says, ‘Oh,’ you know, ‘it’s Liberation Day,’ and all of these things, those are, you know, ways of him saying, ‘Oh, it’s white power,’ McIver said earlier this month.

‘Those are racist remarks,’ the congresswoman told Elias.

National Guard soldiers stand outside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, as part of President Donald Trump’s order to use federal law enforcement to expel homeless people and rid the nation’s capital of violent crime, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025

Congresswoman Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., exits the grounds at Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J

National Guard troops march on the sidewalk of the Scott Circle neighborhood in Washington, DC, USA, 23 August 2025. The nearly 2,300 National Guard troops deployed from 6 states to Washington, DC now have law enforcement powers and are authorized to carry service weapons for personal protection.

 The New Jersey Democrat also complained that Trump’s ‘number one targets are sanctuary cities that … support immigration.’

McIver is currently facing federal charges for storming an ICE facility in her home state of New Jersey earlier this summer. She has asked for the charges to be dismissed.

The congresswoman has pleaded not guilty to three counts of assaulting, resisting, impeding, and interfering with federal officials related to actions in the ICE facility skirmish.

‘Sic the military on the very people that they’re supposed to be protecting in these cities and then expect a certain response so that it can escalate — I truly believe that that’s what the president hopes for,’ McIver told Elias.