Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker escalated his long-running feud with President Donald Trump by holding a press conference outside Trump Tower in downtown Chicago on Monday. Framing the building’s riverfront entrance, the Democrat declared that he “lives rent-free in the president’s head,” while praising Chicago as a “lovely city.” Pritzker’s remarks were an answer to Trump’s repeated depiction of the nation’s third-largest city as a “killing field” in need of a federal crackdown on violent crime. The governor defended local efforts to curb shootings and highlighted recent tourism gains, saying the city “doesn’t need the president’s insults, it needs his partnership.” The back-and-forth underscores a broader clash between the Illinois governor, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, and the recently re-elected Republican president over urban crime policy and federal support for large cities.