Accusing President Donald Trump of having dementia and calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) upped his war of words with Trump on Tuesday over Trump ordering federal agents and a small number of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago to help fight rampant crime and illegal immigration in the city, and to protect ICE agents and facilities.

Pritzker was triggered by Trump suggesting using crime ridden “dangerous cities” like Chicago as training for National Guard troops during remarks to generals and admirals assembled for a special meeting at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia earlier Tuesday.

Trump to top military officials: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor.” pic.twitter.com/v9gb2OhhcJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2025

Pritzker spoke at a food insecurity event with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) at the City Colleges of Chicago.

The Heartland Signal posted a video clip of Pritzker opening his remarks to reporters by accusing Trump of having dementia, “It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he’s copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that’s some sort of proving ground for war or that indeed there’s some sort of internal war going on in the United States is just frankly inane, and I’m concerned for his health.”

ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): “It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he’s copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that’s some sort of proving ground for war or that indeed there’s some sort of internal war going on… pic.twitter.com/oGxa5xBl96

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) September 30, 2025

Later in the press conference, Pritzker called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked.

Video clip posted by Forbes Breaking News: “There is something genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked.”

Full video of the press conference by Johnson and Pritzker starts at 53:45.

Governor Pritzker attends the launch of Food Security for Life, started by the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the City Colleges of Chicago to end hunger among their students https://t.co/fKmoQJV7u1

— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) September 30, 2025

Section Four of the 25th Amendment describes how to remove an incapacitated president:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Last week, aging rocker and Trump hater Bruce Springsteen called for the 25th Amendment or impeachment of Trump in comments to Time magazine reported by Variety:

Bruce Springsteen keeps slamming Donald Trump because “a lot of people bought into his lies.”

“He doesn’t care about anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day… You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply comfortable with his politics of power and dominance,” Springsteen told TIME. “He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

Bruce Springsteen keeps slamming Donald Trump because “a lot of people bought into his lies.”

“He doesn’t care about anybody but himself and the multibillionaires who stood behind him on Inauguration Day… You have to face the fact that a good number of Americans are simply… pic.twitter.com/of9riuMAEx

— Variety (@Variety) September 25, 2025

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President Trump has withdrawn Dr. E.J. Antoni’s nomination as Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner.

Per CNN: “The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.”

News: The White House has withdrawn EJ ANTONI’s nomination to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3 sources tell CNN.

Comes less than 2 months after Trump tapped him following the post-jobs report firing of Erik McEntarfer.

w/ @KristenhCNN @emsteck: https://t.co/BHf9AfVdSg

— Adam Cancryn (@adamcancryn) September 30, 2025

President Trump last month announced he was nominating conservative economist Dr. E.J. Antoni as the next Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner.

Dr. E.J. Antoni is a favorite guest on the Bannon War Room. E.J. Antoni is currently the Chief Economist and Richard Aster Fellow, in the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. Antoni’s work has been featured in a variety of news outlets, including Fox News and Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, Townhall, Bloomberg, Daily Caller, National Review, CNBC, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Federalist, and The War Room.

Trump posted on TRUTH Social: “I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Highly Respected Economist, Dr. E.J. Antoni, as the next Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE. I know E.J. Antoni will do an incredible job in this new role. Congratulations E.J.!”

President Trump previously fired the Biden-appointed Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after she ‘faked’ the jobs numbers before the 2024 election to try to boost Kamala Harris’s chances of a victory.

Dr. Erika McEntarfer was promptly fired after an abysmal July jobs report. The US only added 73,000 jobs in July and the previous months were all revised down.

“Nonfarm payrolls growth totaled 73,000 for July, above the June total of 14,000 but below even the meager Dow Jones estimate for a gain of 100,000,” CNBC reported.

“June and May totals were revised sharply lower, down by a combined 258,000 from previously announced levels,” the outlet reported.

Trump accused McEntarfer of rigging today’s jobs numbers in order to make him look bad.

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President Trump on Tuesday signaled that “a lot of people” will be laid off if the Democrats shut the government down by refusing to vote for a stopgap measure to keep the government funded until November 21.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the government is expected to shut down tonight at midnight because the Democrats refuse to vote for a stopgap bill unless they can secure $1.5 trillion in spending that will fund healthcare for illegal aliens and sex reassignment surgery for children.

President Trump warned Democrats earlier that he will take “irreversible” measures to implement his agenda if the Democrats do not come to the table and pass the government funding bill tonight.

WATCH: Trump Threatens Irreversible Actions if Democrats Force Government Shutdown – “Cutting Things That They Like, Cutting Programs That They Like… We Don’t Want Fraud, Waste and Abuse”

CBS's Weijia Jang asked the President why it is necessary to fire more federal employees if Democrats shut down the government, and he reiterated that he doesn't want a shutdown but he will likely make the best of the situation.

"A lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we don't want," he told reporters. "They'd be Democrat things."

He added, "We have no choice. I have to do that for the country," pointing to policies like open borders, men in women's sports, and "transgender for everybody."

WATCH:

Jiang: As we inched closer to a government shutdown this morning, you said you might do a lot of layoffs. If DOGE is already reducing the federal workforce, why is it necessary to link more federal jobs cut to a shutdown?

Trump: Well, the Democrats want to shut it down, and so when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So, we’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected. And the Democrats, they're going to be Democrats. As you know, this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country. That's what they're insisting. And obviously I have an obligation to not accept that. That would affect everybody.

When I see what we're doing with AI and all the plants that are opening up in the country— $17 trillion is coming in. If you compare that to Biden, Biden had, in four years, less than a trillion. We have 17 trillion— more than that. I think it's going to be much more than that, David. By the end of this year, I think it's going to be far over that. It’s a record, it's already a record in eight months. It's a record by a lot. And so we're doing well as a country.

So, the last thing we want to do is shut it down. But a lot of good can come down from shut downs. We can get rid of a lot of things that we don't want. They'd be Democrat things, but they want open borders, they want men playing in women's sports, they want transgender for everybody, they never stop and they don't learn. We won an election in a landslide. They just don't learn. So, we have no choice. I have to do that for the country.

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President Trump slammed Joe Biden for stealing the credit for his cuts to prescription drug costs in his first term after he made a historic announcement on his efforts to lower drug prices by as much as 80%.

President Trump on Tuesday announced a deal with Pfizer that will provide Americans with heavily discounted prescription drugs at most-favored-nation prices. Many of Pfizer’s brand-name medications will now be available to all medicaid recipients at a discount of up to 80%.

Previously, in May, Trump signed an executive order laying the groundwork for deals like this by directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Commerce, and the U.S. Trade Representative to take “aggressive measures” to find Americans the best deal on prescription drugs.

It can be recalled that during President Trump’s first term, he capped the price of insulin medications at $35 per month. However, Joe Biden, in one of his first acts as president, ended the Trump-era policy on January 24, 2021.

The Biden Administration later signed the Inflation Reduction Act, reinstating Trump’s insulin price cap, for which they took full credit.

SMACKDOWN: FOX News Reporter John Roberts Catches Biden Campaign in a Lie and Brings ALL the Receipts (VIDEO)

When asked if he was worried that credit for his historic progress on cutting medication costs for the American people would be stolen once again by the Democrats, President Trump went off on Biden for stealing his idea.

"He had nothing to do with it," Trump said after calling out feeble Joe for having "no idea what the hell they were talking about" when Insulin prices were capped.

WATCH:

Conradson: In your first term, when you cut the price of insulin, Biden later came in and tried to steal credit for that. Do you worry that the Democrats are going to try to steal credit for these historic cuts?

Trump: I really appreciate your question, because I did. I cut the price of insulin down to $35, and the problem is with many of these things, this case is going to be pretty quick, but oftentimes you'll, you'll do something medically because of the process, and it won't be seen for two or three years. That happened also with— I could see four different things, but just if you talk about insulin, so it was 200, 300, 500, and you couldn't get it, and I got it down to 35.

And I said, I hope I win the next election, because otherwise whoever wins is going to take credit for it. Well, what happened is we did win the election. We did great, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way from a practical standpoint. And Biden, when I saw him get up and take credit for the $35 and even less insulin— that was 1,000% lower than what it was just previous— boy, I tell you, I didn't like it. I didn't like it, so I did the best I could to let him know we did it because we wanted get credit. But we are the ones that got insulin down to that number, and you're right. They tried to take credit for it.

They had nothing to in fact, they didn't even know it happened. All of a sudden, the insulin price kicked in at $35 and they asked Biden about it; he had no idea what the hell they were talking about. But after they explained, and they didn't really explain to him, because he was not capable, but when they went out and talked about it, they acted like it was a great feedback, but he had nothing to do with it. And it continues, and we'll get it down, keep it further. But insulin was— people weren't taking it, I would imagine they couldn't take it.

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The deranged man who set Virginia City Councilman Lee Vogler on fire over the summer told police he tried to kill the lawmaker because he was having “an affair with his wife.”

In July, Danville, Virginia, City Councilman Lee Vogler was doused in gasoline and set on fire in his office.

According to reports, the attacker, identified as Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, of Danville, threw five gallons of gasoline on Vogler before setting him on fire.

3:55 p.m. 7/30/25 UPDATE: The Danville Police Department has charged Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, with attempted first degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding following the attack by burning Wednesday, July 30, on Lee Vogler. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/g0N4rEMZLx

— Danville VA Police (@DanvilleVAPD) July 30, 2025

At the time of the attack, Danville police said the attack appeared to be personal and not related to Vogler’s position as a city councilman.

The Daily Mail reported that Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes’ wife filed for divorce just two weeks ago.

Showcase Magazine’s Andrew Brooks said Shotsie Hayes forced his way in the magazine’s office as Vogler was visiting and poured a five-gallon container of gas on him.

“Lee attempted to flee, ran to the front of the building,” Showcase Magazine owner Andrew Brooks said in a Facebook video. “The individual followed him and set him on fire.”

Vogler was flown to the UNC burn unit in Chapel Hill, according to WSET.

Lee Vogler is reportedly still in the hospital recovering from severe burns to more than 60% of his body.

It was revealed in court on Tuesday that Shotsie Hayes attacked Vogler over his alleged affair.

WDBJ7 reported:

A motive was publicly revealed in court Tuesday for the man accused of setting a Danville City Councilman on fire.

Shotsie Michael Buck-Hayes, arrested July 30, 2025, was in court for a preliminary hearing September 30.

He faces charges of attempted first degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding for allegedly setting Danville Councilman Lee Vogler on fire on July 30.

Buck-Hayes was arrested after he allegedly poured gasoline on Vogler at Vogler’s workplace, Showcase Magazine, then set him on fire outside the building.

Danville Police Sgt. Gerrit Clay took the stand to say Buck-Hayes told him, “he set the person on fire who had an affair with his wife.”

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