{"id":1840,"date":"2025-09-08T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oboxma.com\/trump-threatens-war-with-chicago\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:57:01","slug":"trump-threatens-war-with-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oboxma.com\/en\/trump-threatens-war-with-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens war\u2026 with Chicago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump stirred up controversy this weekend when he posted a threatening message on Truth Social, claiming that Chicago &#8220;is about to find out&#8221; why he renamed the &#8220;Department of Defense&#8221; to the &#8220;Department of War&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:ln72v57ivz2g46uqf4xxqiuh\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lydax3u3ra23\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreif4rumtthyqaulngdcc6on4iljnwjoirvmfi2mxmjitkteewfgcwi\">\n<p>Trump posted online that Chicago was &#8220;about to find out why it&#8217;s called the Department of WAR,&#8221; but later said his administration wouldn&#8217;t go to war with American cities but rather &#8220;clean them up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ln72v57ivz2g46uqf4xxqiuh?ref_src=embed\">NPR (@npr.org)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ln72v57ivz2g46uqf4xxqiuh\/post\/3lydax3u3ra23?ref_src=embed\">2025-09-08T12:57:16.218672Z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He accompanied his statement with an AI-generated image with a nod to the film Apocalypse Now.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows Trump wearing the hat of Lieutenant-Colonel Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall, with Chicago in flames in the background after U.S. Army helicopters have passed by.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"947\" height=\"1083\" class=\"wp-image-8555694\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-tor.buminteractif.com\/2025\/09\/08150904\/trump-truth345234234.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CaptureTruthSocialRealDonaldTrump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This meme was widely criticized, especially as it contained the phrase &#8220;I love the smell of deportations in the morning&#8221;, a parody of Duvall&#8217;s famous line.<\/p>\n<p>Trump then tried to calm the controversy by asserting that his administration is &#8220;not going to war&#8221; with Chicago.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-image-8555700\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-tor.buminteractif.com\/2025\/09\/08150952\/GettyImages-2232255618-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, strongly denounced Trump&#8217;s post on X, saying his threat to wage war on an American city was neither a joke nor something normal, and asserting that his state will not be intimidated by a &#8220;wannabe dictator.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He accompanied his statement with an AI-generated image with a nod to the film Apocalypse Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"desc":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump threatens war\u2026 with Chicago! 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