Democratic lawmakers quickly denounced President Donald Trump ‘s threat to target Chicago with the newly-renamed Department of War, as a crime crackdown and increased ICE operations in the Windy City loom.

On Saturday, Trump posted an AI-generated image titled “Chipocalypse Now” on Truth Social that features the president in a military outfit, helicopters near the Chicago skyline, and flames behind him. The meme, which plays on the 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now , is captioned with a quote that says “I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” as well as the threat to use the War Department in any possible law enforcement operations in the city.

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