President Trump on Monday used his first trip to Chicago as president to tear into the city and its leadership, comparing its violence to Afghanistan and blasting officials as inept and disloyal to the U.S.
“It’s embarrassing to us as a nation,” he said of the city’s crime rate. “All over the world, they’re talking about Chicago. Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison.”
“It’s true,” Trump added after some in the audience chuckled.
Gun violence has long plagued Chicago, with bursts of violence dominating headlines in the city and at times across the country. There have been 436 people killed in the city in 2019 as of Sunday, 46 fewer than at the same point the previous year, according to data compiled by the Chicago Tribune. The majority of those killings were shootings.
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