President Donald Trump intensified his threats against Chicago this weekend by posting a parody “Apocalypse Now” image with a fiery ball of flames and helicopters flying over the city skyline. The post included the line: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”

He’s now walking back that incendiary comment, however, and clarifying that he doesn’t want to go to war with the people of the windy city.

The imagery mimicked Lt. Col. Kilgore from the dystopian 1979 Vietnam War film, complete with Trump photoshopped into the character’s hat. The caption — rebranded “Chipocalypse Now” — followed his months-long pattern of taunting Democratic-led cities while pledging to send in federal muscle.

According to the Associated

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