The women in red hats are met with eye rolls, indifference and jeers during Chicago City Council meetings.

But in the past week, their movement has been embraced on live TV inside the Oval Office.

“I see Black women wearing a red MAGA hat last night on television: ‘Please let the president come in,’” President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday from the White House. “You have a force of Black women, Black women … they want Trump to come in. And you see them, they’re all over the place in Chicago.”

The broadcast followed Trump’s explosive remarks Friday floating the nation’s third-largest city as “probably” the next destination to send military troops in his purported crusade against violence. That day, he first cited “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” begging him for fede

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