“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Monday mocked President Donald Trump for posting an image of himself as a character from the Vietnam War film “Apocalypse Now” while threatening the city of Chicago.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” Trump posted over the weekend. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Trump, who is trying to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, has repeatedly threatened to send the military into the city, as he has done in Washington, D.C.
His new social media post mimicked an image from the movie, but had the Chicago skyline in the background and said “Chipocalypse Now.”
Trump depicted himself as Robert Duvall’s character, Col. Bill Kilgore:
