President Trump warns that Chicago is 'about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR' in incendiary Truth Social post | Daily Mail Online
By: Alyssa Guzman (Mail Online)
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Trump, 79, took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday to post a meme about himself, where he wrote: 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning.
'Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR.'
Trump rebranded the Pentagon to the Department of War this week.
The White House reposted it on X with three helicopter emojis.
Governor JB Pritzker responded to Trump's post on X, writing: 'The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
'This is not a joke. This is not normal.
'Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.'
Donald Trump, 79, took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday to post a meme about himself, where he wrote: 'I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR'
His threat comes as ICE readies a raid on the Windy City after Trump said he'd selected for the next federal military takeover
Mayor Brandon Johnson also responded, writing: 'The President's threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution.
'We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump.'
Trump's threat comes as ICE readies a raid on the Windy City after Trump said he selected it for the next federal military takeover.
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to have access to Naval Station Great Lakes - the largest military base in Illinois - to base the operation, The Washington Post reported.
The request said that around 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles would utilize the base.
National Guard troops could also be sent in to assist the effort, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.
Equipment and personnel started arriving at the naval base earlier this week. One MAGA radio personality has branded it the beginning of 'the siege of Chicago.'
Governor JB Pritzker warned the raids could start on Saturday.
On Tuesday, Pritzker accused Trump's White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller of choosing to target Chicago in September because the city hosts a myriad of events for Mexican Independence Day.
'We have reason to believe that Stephen Miller chose the month of September of come to Chicago because of celebrations around Mexican Independence Day that happen here every day,' Pritzker said.
Governor J.B. Pritzker warned the raids could start on Saturday
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'It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades,' the governor continued. 'Let's be clear: the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anyone living here.'
On Thursday, El Grito Chicago organizers scrapped a planned two-day festival over ICE raid fears.
The city's Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson is resisting the federal action.
Last weekend, he signed an executive order that, among other things, bars law enforcement from wearing face masks, as ICE agents have done in other US cities.
Johnson and Pritzker are sticking with the state's sanctuary city policies that ban local law enforcement from helping ICE agents, unless they have a criminal warrant.
On Thursday, the mayor encouraged Chicagoans to still celebrate Mexican Independence Day.
'Why would I ask you to stay home?' he asked. 'Why would we allow someone who is auditioning to become a dictator of democracy to intimidate the soul of America, the city of Chicago? We should celebrate.'
The president claims that sending in the National Guard is helping the Democratic cities' crime problem.
The National Guard deployment in DC came hand-in-hand with ICE raids in the city.
On Thursday, DC's Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit arguing the more than 1,000 troops now deployed to the capital are an illegal use of the military for domestic law enforcement.
'No American jurisdiction should be involuntarily subjected to military occupation,' Schwalb said.
Two weeks ago, Trump revealed that after Washington, DC, Chicago was his next pick for a troop deployment.
'When we're ready, we'll go in and we'll straighten out Chicago, just like we did DC,' Trump said in the Oval Office at a World Cup event.
'Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent and we'll straighten that one out probably next, that will be our next one after this and it won't even be tough,' Trump said.
'And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to go. They're wearing red hats, just like this one. But they're wearing red hats,' Trump told Vice President JD Vance, who was standing alongside him.
'African-American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying: "Please, President Trump, come to Chicago,"' the president continued.
He added that he did 'great' with the black vote.
'So I think Chicago will be our next and then we'll help with New York,' he said.
There are already mass protests in Chicago. Hundreds of people massed to block the main vehicle entrance and exit lanes at Great Lakes Naval Station, the staging grounds for ICE activity in the region.
Meanwhile the president of the United States posts a meme of himself in a combat pose and threatens "war" on the city.
Idiocracy.
Huh, blocking traffic in and out of such a major base would seem to be a national security issue. Don't you think?...
Do you know that Great Lakes is the only navy boot camp in the country?
Why are you OK with fellow leftists causing the blocking of new recruits to enter military service and depart to their first duty station or school to protect this country?
It’s just a metaphor.
He's trash and so are the people who defend him.
Military service commands deep respect, but honesty is just as important. Moore allowing a false claim to linger for almost twenty years is not a slip-up. It’s a case of stolen valor, and rather than admit what he did, he doubled down and lied about it.
Mmmmm
from your link
Trump has no military service and ho honesty.
This country has sunk so low the "president" can dress himself like a war hero from a movie and declare war on an American city and its just another day. There was a time when a president would either be removed or put in a mental institution for the things this clown does every day.
Can someone please inform Sen Duckworth in a language she might understand that we have this thing called "artificial intelligence" now, and Trump isn't actually wearing the hat.
Could someone also explain that movies aren't actually real, and the character who originally wore the hat, Bill Kilgore, is not actually a real person. The actor who played him, Robert Duvall, was never a Colonel.
While we're at it we might explain that neither Tom Hanks nor Matt Damon were soldiers... in case she watches "Saving Private Ryan".
I didnt know we were paying the president of the United States to be an entertainer. He doesnt have to tweet images of himself dressed as an Army colonel and directing a helicopter attack on Chicago. That is his choice, to be an internet troll. People like you think its just fine when he buffoons the office.
LOL, which times were those?...
Do you also think Newsom buffoons his office?
Newsome buffoons Trump.
If you say so, though I have heard that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
You moved your goalposts pretty quickly there, didn't you? That aside, I didn't know we were paying him at all. Didn't he make some grand spectacle about not accepting a salary?
And you don't have to follow him. Honestly. It's not actually required. I've never followed him and nobody has said anything about it.
just like it is your choice to allow yourself to be trolled.
Tall people? Manchester United fans? Golfers? Cigar smokers? Which set of "people like me" are you talking about?
And why is it that comments starting with the phrase "people like you" are always so stupid?
So, what is normal in Chicago? Why does Chicago fear a police presence? Or is Chicago only afraid of ridicule and memes?
Maybe Pritzker can deploy a Giant Baby Trump blimp to monitor the national guard. Those balloons should be safe now that Biden is out of office. Or Pritzker could activate BLM to liberate a CVS pharmacy, free the hair extensions being held hostage, and score points by burning a city block. That'll show 'em.
If the national guard was causing a problem in Washington D.C. then the press would be all over it like flies on a dead horse. What is the press hiding?
There was a very large protest against Trump in Washington DC today.
Is Pritzker going to bus those protesters to Chicago? Better warn them to stay away from the west side and south side. And the snobs will be upset if they shutdown Lakeshore.
I dont think there will be a shortage of protesters who are already in Chicago if the time comes.
Can they spare the time from their busy schedules?
You ever heard of the leftist company called "Rent a mob"?
They pay and bus "protestors" to wherever they are paid to show up.