"United States President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash his newly rebranded Department of War on Chicago, as thousands of protesters marched in the city as well as in Washington, DC, to denounce the deployment of National Guard troops and immigration agents to Democratic-led cities. Trump's threat, posted on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, featured a parody image from the movie Apocalypse Now, showing a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the skyline of Chicago, the US's third-largest city."
"I love the smell of deportations in the morning,' Trump wrote on his social media site. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR. The president offered no details beyond the label Chipocalypse Now, a play on the title of Francis Ford Coppola's dystopian 1979 film set in the Vietnam war, in which a character says, I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
"Democratic Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, where Chicago is located, voiced outrage at Trump's post and said the state won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator. 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, he wrote in a post on X. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also denounced Trump's threat as beneath the honor of our nation."
President Donald Trump posted a threatening message on Truth Social featuring a parody 'Chipocalypse Now' image depicting flames and helicopters over Chicago. The post included the line 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning' and invoked a newly rebranded 'Department of War.' Plans to increase immigration enforcement and deploy National Guard troops to Chicago mirror actions in other Democratic-led cities. Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago and Washington, DC, including a 'We Are All DC' national march, to denounce the deployments. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called the move intimidation and labeled Trump a 'wannabe dictator.' Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson condemned the threat as beneath the nation's honor.
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