As Democrats across deep-blue Illinois on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s inaugural address with a call “to fight back” against the incoming GOP administration, jubilant Republicans advised the state’s supermajority party to follow the returning president’s lead to “eliminate these woke politics and restore America back to traditional values.”
Gov. JB Pritzker called it “a challenging day for Americans” and slammed Trump for arranging prime seats in Capitol rotunda for tech billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
“He’s got the oligarchs sitting in the front row at his inauguration, and I think it just shows who he cares about,” Pritzker told reporters after a Martin Luther King Jr. Day volunteer event at Lindblom Math and Science Academy in West Englewood. “It’s the wealthiest people in the country that are kowtowing to him and not to ordinary Americans.
“He does not care about ordinary Americans. You haven’t seen any issuance of any executive orders that would lower prices, or deal with what people have to fight every day,” Pritzker said, berating Trump for orders the governor claims “attack people’s rights.”
