Wu: This Is Our City [Video]

Mayor Wu defends Boston from Trump overreach on Tuesday, 19 August 2025.

Wu joined by Sen. Markey, State Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, City Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune and a “supermajority” of the Boston City Council.

Local mayors, including Katjana Ballantyne, in the house.

Earlier in August Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a form letter to Boston on behalf of the Trump regime’s continued campaign to spread fear, terror, and distress in the attempt to get local governments to bend the knee to his authoritarian politics of mass deportations.

Mayor Wu wasn’t having it.

On 19 August Wu gathered with the local politicians, community leaders, and residents at City Hall Plaza to push back against federal overreach, drawing inspiration from the rhetorical wellspring of Big Papi’s immortal “This is our [fucking] city!”

Wu underlined Boston’s strengths in public safety, security, infrastructure, and social support, accomplished with and without federal support. She also snuck in a jab related to Trump’s concealment of the Epstein files.

If Wu is a “wartime mayor” and the war is against Trump, it will become increasingly difficult for rival mayoral candidate Robert Kraft’s son to separate himself from his family’s close connection to Trump and the sense that he’s simply an avatar for the wealthy and well-connected.

Mayor Wu made a special point of shouting out the local and state politicians who were present and showing support (suggesting that some local politicians received the invitation and declined the opportunity to make a united stand against the Trump regime).

Sen. Ed Markey was in the house, and spoke.

State Rep. Aaron Michlewitz was in the house, and spoke.

Boston City Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune was in the house, and spoke. She noted that a “supermajority” of the Boston City Council was present, including City Councilors Julia Meija, Henry Santana, Gabriela Coletta Zapata, Brian Worrell, Enrique J. Pepén, Ben Weber, Liz Breadon, and Sharon Durkan.

Missing among Boston City Councilors? The following names were not called out: Ed Flynn, John Fitzgerald, and Erin Murphy.

Local mayors in the Boston area were also in the house. Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, who is in the middle of her own mayoral race (vs. Jake Wilson and Willie Burnley, Jr.), along with Worcester mayor Joe Petty, Lynn Mayor Jared Nicholson, Melrose mayor Jen Grigoraitis.

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