US President Donald Trump again threatened military intervention today in Chicago, the third-largest city in the US.
“Chicago will understand why the Department of Defense is now called the Department of War,” Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social.
The US president has been threatening for days to send federal forces to allegedly fight crime.
Trump also published an image, apparently generated by artificial intelligence, which depicts the president dressed in a military uniform against a backdrop of fire and helicopters, in an orange sky above Chicago, with the caption “Chipocalypse Now.”
This is an allusion to the film “Apocalypse Now” by the famous director Francis Ford Coppola about the Vietnam War.
The governor of Illinois, the US state where Chicago is located, reacted by saying that he does not view the message as a joke.
“This is no joke. The president of the United States is threatening to go to war against an American city,” wrote the governor, Democrat JB Pritzker, on the X platform.
He added that Illinois “will not be intimidated by an increasingly powerful dictator.”
Calling Chicago a “rat hole” and “the murder capital of the world,” Trump has been threatening since late August to send the National Guard there, a reserve military force he has already deployed in two other strongholds of the democratic opposition, Los Angeles and Washington.
Uniformed soldiers equipped with armored vehicles have been patrolling the US capital since mid-August.
Today, several hundred people walked the streets of Washington protesting the “occupation” of the city by federal forces.
“In Washington, the great crime is in the White House,” read one of the banners.
On Friday, Trump signed a decree renaming the US Department of Defense to the “Department of War,” adding that he wants to send “a message of victory and strength to the rest of the world.”
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