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Former Democrat Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel slammed his own party for focusing on issues that do not impact the everyday lives of average Americans during an appearance on HBO host Bill Maher’s program on Friday.
“I don’t want to hear another word about the locker room, I don’t want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom,” he said during an appearance alongside liberal CNN host and author Fareed Zakaria.
“I read that the current mayor of Chicago has an approval rating of 6.6 percent…. What’s going on in Chicago?” Maher responded.
“Round it up. 7,” the former mayor quipped. “Safe streets, strong schools, stable finances. Focus on those three things and your city’s going to be fine.”
“You also have the mayor of New York not doing well… Obviously, other things here in Los Angeles are not doing well, the mayor here. And then you’ve got mayors, like the mayor of San Francisco and other cities that are doing well,” he said before pivoting back to Chicago.
“We’ve gone through five years where people became way too permissive as a culture – which is why everything is locked up at CVS and Walgreens, and that’s a disaster,” Emanual continued.
“We have the worst reading scores for eighth graders in 30 years, and nobody – not a governor, not a mayor, not a president, not a secretary of education is talking about it. We’re all wrapped up,” Emanual added before scorching the woke policies that have appeared to take over his Party.
“Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls’ bathroom, I would have done it,” Emanuel joked.
“We literally are a superpower, we’re facing off against China with 1.4 billion people and two-thirds of our children can’t read eighth grade level,” he said.
Zakaria chimed in, saying that he believed the woke policies and language were a significant issue for the Democrat Party in the last election cycle.
“This is a huge Democratic Party problem. If you look at Democratic cities, they are terribly run. They have incredibly high taxes, so it’s impossible to build,” he said.
But Chicago has even bigger issues.
Prior to the inauguration of President Donald Trump, his border czar and career immigration enforcer Tom Homan made a bombshell promise in the massive blue city.
Homan was on hand in Chicago, a city whose mayor has vowed to fight the Trump administration on its immigration plans, where he said deportation operations would begin on “day one.”
“All that starts January 21st, and we’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us — if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien — I will prosecute him,” Homan declared while sending a stern warning to Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson.
He also took a swipe at the state’s Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker in his speech.
“Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks. January 21st, you’re going to look for a lot of ICE agents in your city, looking for criminals and gang members,” Homan said, indicating that the deportations would start the day after the inauguration of the president-elect.
During an interview with Fox News anchor Jesse Watters on Friday night, Homan further elaborated on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement plans, declaring that ICE would “finally” be allowed to carry out its responsibilities by deporting millions of undocumented migrants.
Watters asked Homan about reports claiming, “There’s going to be a big raid all across the country.”
Homan not only vowed deportations on day one but that ICE is being told to enforce immigration law “without apology.”