President Donald Trump made clear that any federal law enforcement operation in Chicago will be to tackle crime, rebutting Democrats' concerns about an earlier threat the president made to unleash the Department of War on the city.

Trump berated a reporter outside the White House on Sunday who asked if he was "ready to go to war" with Chicago, calling her "second rate" before defending any action he takes on crime as "common sense."

"Be quiet, listen. You don’t listen. You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate. We’re not going to war, we’re gonna clean up our cities. We’re gonna clean them up, so they don’t kill five people every weekend. That’s not war, that’s common sense," the president said.

Trump's comments follow him sharing an AI-generated imaged titled “Chipocalyps

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