Sept. 6 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to unleash the newly named Department of War on Chicago in a crackdown on illegal immigration and crime, which Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker denounced as "threatening to go to war with an American city."
On Truth Social, Trump displayed an artificial intelligence-generated image that appears to parody the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now with "Chipocalypse Now." Helicopters fly over the Chicago skyline in a fiery background like Vietnam War scenes.
"I loved the smell of deportations in the morning," was written as an adaptation of "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from the film.
Trump is depicted in U.S. Army fatigues with sunglasses and wearing a Stetson U.S. Cavalry hat like the lieutenant colonel portrayed in the movie by actor Robert Duvall.
"Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," he wrote, one day after an executive order changed the name from Department of Defense, though Congress needs to approve the change.
