Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about his memes in meatspace.
The president scolded a reporter for bringing up his recent post to Truth Social, threatening an invasion of Chicago in a riff of 1979’s “Apocalypse Now.” The post inserted Trump in the role played by Robert Duvall and was captioned with “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor pressed Trump about the post on Sunday, asking if he intends to “go to war with Chicago.”
“That’s fake news,” Trump said in front of the White House, as he was preparing to head to the U.S. Open in New York City.
When Alcindor attempted to ask a follow-up question, Trump spoke over her.
“Be quiet, listen! You don’t listen! You never listen,” he said. “That’s why you’re second-rate. We’re not going to war. We’re gonna