Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation — that’s terrorism. And we’re not going to negotiate with terrorists,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters at his weekly City Hall news conference.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) compared President Trump to a terrorist after the president threatened to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. “Trying to hold people hostage and manipulating them to succumb to his will,

"There's a long history of Black political leaders talking to people who may not see us as first class," said Mayor Brandon Johnson.