Donald Trump spouted off again Monday about how big cities run by Democrats in blue states have big problems.

This time, the president claimed that violence in Chicago was “probably worse than almost any city in the world.”

“It’s like a war zone, and I listen to the governor and the mayor get up and say how they have it under control. They don’t,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, focusing on gun violence in particular. “It’s probably worse than almost any city in the world. You can go to Afghanistan. You can go to a lot of different places, and they probably marvel at how much crime we have.”

Afghanistan ranks 9th on the Global Organized Crime Index. Among U.S. cities with the highest murder rate in 2024, Chicago isn’t in the top 20, FBI data shows. Thirteen of the 20 cities wi

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