On Monday, we published a story about 35 people getting shot in Chiraq (Chicago) over the weekend.
As the Homer Simpson meme was meant to imply, 35 people had been shot over the long weekend so far. We were quite certain that more people would be shot on Monday, and Chicago (sadly) did not disappoint.
Lefties reacted to the president's statement by calling him a big fat liar.
According to NBC 5 Chicago, 54 people were shot, 7 fatally.
According to the Chicago Tribune, 55 people were shot, 7 fatally, including 12 shot in two mass shootings.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, 52 were wounded and nine were killed over the weekend.
This weekend's gun violence was a significant jump from last year's late-summer holiday weekend, when eight people were killed and 22 wounded.
Meanwhile, politicians like Illinois' lieutenant governor said the city is safe and everything is fine.
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I'm not sure which part of Trump's post was a lie, other than the fact that murder and violence are so off the charts in Chicago that the police and media can't even pinpoint how many people have been shot and/or died in a three-day span.
Chicago regularly has double-digit shooting victims on any given weekend, as we have extensively reported on over the past five years.
Meanwhile, a local Chicago alderman said the 50+ shooting victims over the weekend in his city implied that the violence is happening because Trump is "a dictator."
Another alderman, however, admitted that the weekend's violence made "the best argument for Donald Trump."
People had some strong opinions about the whole affair.
Stay frosty out there in Chiraq.
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