Pritzker says Trump ‘struggling dementia’ regardless of backing Biden’s psychological health

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker accused President Donald Trump of being a "man who’s struggling dementia" of their escalating feud over Nationwide Guard deployment in his state — regardless of the Democrat as soon as backing former President Biden’s psychological health.

Texas Nationwide Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday to guard federal personnel and property amid anti-immigration protests, the Pentagon confirmed. A Pentagon official stated 200 guardsmen have been mobilized for an preliminary 60-day interval.

"This can be a man who’s struggling dementia," Pritzker stated Tuesday about Trump, in accordance with The Chicago Tribune. "This can be a man who has one thing caught in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t learn. He doesn’t know something that’s updated. It’s simply one thing within the recesses of his mind that's effectuating to have him name out these cities."

"After which, sadly, he has the facility of the army, the facility of the federal authorities to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing," Pritzker reportedly added.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker stated President Donald Trump has dementia regardless of beforehand rejecting challenges of former President Joe Biden's psychological health. (Scott Olson/Getty Pictures; Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures; Bruce Glikas/WireImage)

The sharp criticism comes after Pritzker defended Biden following the discharge of a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur in February 2024 that described the previous president as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence."

"I scent a rat," Pritzker was quoted as telling reporters the day after Hur’s report was made public.

"It was extraordinarily unfair for a Trump appointee, initially to the Division of Justice, to supply his personal opinions in regards to the psychological acuity or age of the President of the USA," Pritzker added, in accordance with Politico.

Pritzker additional defended Biden's health to serve.

"I’ve been with the President of the USA many instances, he's on the ball," Pritzker stated at a press convention in February 2024, in accordance to WLS-TV. "The person is aware of greater than most of us have forgotten. He is aware of a lot extra as a result of he’s been in authorities for numerous years and has served in necessary positions."

Biden later dropped his re-election bid in July after a disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to Trump. Biden's personal celebration quietly ceded to considerations over his health, psychological competency and total power as a candidate as fallout from the talk overtook dialog on the marketing campaign path and on Capitol Hill.

Army personnel in uniform, with the Texas Nationwide Guard patch on, are seen on the U.S. Military Reserve Middle on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Elwood, Sick., a suburb of Chicago. (AP/Laura Bargfeld)

At a time Pritzker was being floated as probably becoming a member of the Democratic ticket and was holding talking engagements in battleground states, the Illinois governor launched an announcement on Biden's choice to withdraw from the race.

"President Joe Biden has devoted his life in service to this nation, and its residents are all the higher for it. His is a storied political profession culminating in one of the vital achieved and efficient presidencies of our lifetime," Pritzker stated on the time. He praised Biden as having "restored dignity to the Oval Workplace, bringing the statesmanship and honor which were the hallmarks of his years of service, again to the White Home."

He additionally attacked Trump, including, "We should not ignore the menace posed by Donald Trump’s potential return to the White Home," in accordance with WMAQ-TV. Trump went on to win the November election.

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An X account affiliated with the Trump White Home on Tuesday known as Pritzker "one SICK scumbag," sharing a clip of his current interview with WGN.

"What I do know is, within the early days of Nazi regime, they began slowly however absolutely taking away individuals's rights. And what we're seeing now could be the exact same factor. They've gone into cities now with the army," Pritzker stated within the clip posted on X by the White Home Speedy Response group. "Take into consideration that — in your lifetime have you ever ever seen something like that? The place the President of the USA is sending army or troops dressed as army — ICE and CBP — in camouflage, with computerized weapons, into our main cities? It’s fallacious."

Smoke is seen rising as federal regulation enforcement pushes again anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters exterior an ICE facility in Broadview, Sick., on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (Fox Information)

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The White Home Speedy Response group stated Pritzker "calls President Trump a Nazi — fomenting extra deranged violence from his Radical Left lunatic supporters."

Trump on Wednesday stated on Reality Social that Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson needs to be jailed for not defending ICE brokers. The White Home offered Fox Information Digital with an announcement elaborating on the president's publish, noting that 30 individuals have been shot, 5 of whom died, in Chicago final week alone, but "these Trump-Deranged buffoons would moderately permit the violence to proceed and assault the President for wanting to assist make their metropolis protected once more."