"Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation? That's terrorism. We're not going to negotiate with terrorists," Johnson said on Tuesday.

Mayor Brandon Johnson lambasted President Donald Trump dangling the possibility of cutting federal funding over Democratic leaders as “terrorism” in a Tuesday news conference during which he offered few specifics on how he would fight back.

"There's a long history of Black political leaders talking to people who may not see us as first class," said Mayor Brandon Johnson.