President Trump appeared to once again threaten sending troops to Chicago for a widespread immigration and crime crackdown similar to that seen in Los Angeles when the National Guard was recently deployed there.

In a post on Truth Social on Saturday , Mr. Trump shared a screenshot that reads "'I love the smell of deportations in the morning ...' Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." The AI-generated image appears to parody the movie "Apocalypse Now."

On Sunday, the president told reporters at the White House that his administration is not "going to war" in Chicago.

"We're going to clean up our cities," Mr. Trump said. "We're going to clean them up, so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war, that's common sense."

Mr. Trump has targe

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