"Trump has threatened to do so in multiple other cities, including Chicago. The president vowed earlier this week to send troops into Chicago, calling it an obligation. 'When I watch television last night, and I'm watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets, I say, That's not our country. We have to do something,' he said, referring to shootings in the city over Labor Day weekend."
"A federal judge ruled that the president's deployment of troops to Los Angeles over the summer in response to protests was illegal. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) previously said in a statement that Trump's deployment of troops to Chicago has nothing to do with crime. We are ready to fight troop deployments in court and we will do everything possible to ensure that agents operating inside the confines of this state do so in a legal and ethical manner, he said."
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social showing Chicago on fire with helicopters, casting himself as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore and altering the line to 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning.' The post warned Chicago that it would 'find out why it's called the Department of WAR' and followed his rebranding of the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. and has threatened similar deployments to other cities, citing recent shootings in Chicago as justification. Legal challenges have arisen, including a federal judge ruling a prior Los Angeles deployment illegal, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has vowed to contest any troop deployments to Chicago in court.
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