Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stated on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is criticizing his handling of crime because he is “intimidated” by the “intellectual prowess of black men.”

A reporter asked the mayor during a press conference for his response to Trump calling Johnson and Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker “incompetent” over their handling of crime in Chicago. The mayor said that Trump is using “petite and puerile” insults toward his handling of crime simply because he is “intimidated” by his leadership.

“The president has always been intimidated by the intellectual prowess of black men, and so of course he would speak in those petite and puerile terms because he’s small,” Johnson said.

After Trump deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C., he warned on

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