The president shared an AI-generated image on his Truth Social profile with the text “Chipocalypse Now.” Donald Trump appears in the montage wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, flying over a city in flames.
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In the caption, Donald Trump referenced an iconic line from the 1979 war film.
“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” he wrote, threatening the city.
“Apocalypse Now” is based on the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899). Francis Ford Coppola’s film tells the story of a U.S. Army officer serving during the Vietnam War.
Users on X, formerly Twitter, mocked Trump’s analogy, noting that the film has no heroes, contrary to what the Republican believed. “MAGA literacy is at the lowest level in history,” one of them said.
In August, the president hinted at sending troops to the city amid protests against ICE, just as he did in Washington, D.C. and California.
“You have an incompetent mayor, extremely incompetent, and we’re going to fix this, it will probably be next, after this one, and it won’t even be hard. So I think Chicago will be next and then we’ll help New York,” he said.
Donald Trump’s post was criticized by politicians, including California Governor Gavin Newsom. He accused the president of using U.S. troops as “political pawns.”
Photos: X @realDonaldTrump. This content was created with the help of AI and reviewed by the editorial team.
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