President Donald Trump put Chicago criminals on notice Saturday, promising to deploy federal troops to the violence-plagued city in a threatening Truth Social post.
“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” Trump wrote, referencing his Friday executive order renaming the Department of Defense to its original name.
The post included an AI-generated image of Trump seated with fire and helicopters over the Chicago skyline, dressed as Robert Duvall’s character in Apocalypse Now. The text read, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” and “Chipocalypse Now.”
Trump has previously indicated he wants National Guard troops sent to Chicago to combat crime and illegal immigration, despite opposition from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D).
“We’re going in,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting. “I didn’t say when.”
Pritzker called Trump “a scared man,” saying, “The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said Trump’s threats were “beneath the honor of our nation” and accused him of attempting to “occupy our city and break our Constitution,” per the New York Post.
Trump slammed