While The View’s co-hosts chuckled their way through another segment of wishful thinking — predicting for the umpteenth time that President Donald Trump will be “gone” within a year — back in the real world, things are getting far less amusing, especially in cities like Chicago, where radical policy experiments and dangerous rhetoric are creating real consequences.
On Monday’s episode, Joy Behar confidently proclaimed that Trump will be impeached or forced to resign, declaring, “He’ll be gone.” Her co-hosts joined in, joking about Trump’s interest in hosting a UFC fight on his 80th birthday and using comedy as a coping mechanism for their ongoing political despair. It was the usual late-stage liberal denial, wrapped in applause lines and giggles.
But as these media personalities distract their viewers with pipe dreams, Chicago’s far-left leadership is engaged in something far more serious — and far more troubling.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, self-described “progressive” and increasingly militant in his language, issued an executive order on Monday creating so-called “ICE-Free Zones” across Chicago. These zones are designed to restrict federal immigration enforcement officers from using any city-owned property — including schools, parks, libraries, and vacant lots — to carry out lawful federal operations. And the mayor’s rhetoric? Escalating by the day.
“We have a rogue, reckless group of heavily armed, masked individuals roaming throughout our city,” Johnson said of federal immigration agents. Not drug cartels. Not gang members. Not criminals. Federal law enforcement.
He didn’t stop there. In statements reminiscent of anarchist rhetoric, Johnson accused ICE of “loading their weapons” in school parking lots and “setting up checkpoints” in public parks, all while warning that Trump had “declared war” on Chicago and other cities. He even claimed that “center-right Americans want a rematch of the Civil War.”
This is not responsible governance. This is reckless demagoguery.
Worse, this isn’t just talk. The executive order bars ICE from using city property and pressures private businesses not to cooperate. Johnson is actively undermining federal law enforcement and attempting to rewrite the boundaries of constitutional authority — all while violent protesters outside ICE facilities escalate their assaults, and Johnson orders local police not to assist federal agents under attack.
Let’s be clear: federal law supersedes local ordinances. Cities cannot simply nullify federal law because it makes them uncomfortable. But that’s exactly what Chicago is doing under Johnson’s leadership — sabotaging lawful enforcement of immigration laws while accusing anyone who supports it of authoritarianism.
This is the same mayor presiding over skyrocketing crime, record business closures, and plummeting police morale. His answer? Tie the hands of those tasked with protecting the border and enforcing the law, then declare that anyone who disagrees is trying to start a second Civil War.
And meanwhile, in TV studios on the coasts, hosts like Behar, Haines, and Hostin are still telling themselves that Trump’s the one who’s out of control.
