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Trump Threatens ‘WAR’ on Chicago
By Jacob Knutson
September 6, 2025
President Donald Trump threatened to wage “WAR” against Chicago Saturday as his administration’s large-scale immigration raids loomed over the city.
“Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the president said in a social media post, referring to the department he claimed to rename Friday.
Trump accompanied his post with an AI-generated image of himself in a Civil War-era military hat, evoking the film “Apocalypse Now.”
“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning,’” Trump added in another allusion to the movie.
“The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) wrote in response to Trump’s post on social media.
“This is not a joke,” the governor added. “This is not normal.”
“Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
Pritzker warned Tuesday that Trump is preparing to deploy the Texas National Guard against Chicago over the governor’s repeated objections.
Trump’s threat comes as his administration is organizing massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Chicago, the country’s third-largest city.
As part of its build-up for the raids, the government relocated hundreds of federal agents to the city and staged vehicles and resources on nearby federal properties.
The Department of Defense has allowed ICE to use a Navy base on the outskirts of Chicago as a staging base for the raids. The arrangement heavily blurs the line between civil and military authority.
Pritzker said that Trump may be planning to use the ICE raids to provoke unrest in the city and create a pretext to deploy troops in Chicago.
The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration operations in Los Angeles this summer incited protests, which Trump then cited in orders deploying National Guard troops and Marines to the city.
Legal experts have told Democracy Docket that Trump sending the Texas National Guard into Illinois would dangerously threaten state sovereignty.
In a fundraising email to his supporters this week, Trump vowed to “liberate” Chicago.
Trump’s post came as several thousand D.C. residents marched in the nation’s capital to demand an end to Trump’s massive troop deployment in the district.
In addition to Chicago, Trump in recent days has threatened to deploy the military against New York, Portland, Oakland and other major cities.
The president has falsely portrayed the cities, which are in Democratic-run states, as being overrun with violent crime, while largely ignoring cities in Republican-run states that have higher crime rates.
His ongoing military deployments in Los Angeles and D.C. — and the potential deployment in Chicago — have sparked concerns that Trump may deploy troops or law enforcement in key Democratic strongholds to undermine future elections.
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