President Donald Trump jokingly threatened Chicago with “WAR” in an unhinged Truth Social post on Saturday.

“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social. Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War via an executive order on Friday.

The threat featured an AI-generated image of the president as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore—played by Robert Duvall in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic 1979 Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now—with helicopters flying over the city and fire raging behind him accompanied by the title, “Chipopalypse Now.”

“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” Trump wrote—a riff on Kilgore’s line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

His comments come as the president continues to t

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