President Donald Trump set the stage for a surge of immigration enforcement actions in Chicago with a social media post Saturday morning depicting military helicopters flying over the city’s lakefront using the title “Chipocalypse Now.”

“I love the smell of deportations in the morning…” Trump posted on his Truth Social account, altering a famous phrase from the 1979 movie “Apocalypse Now.” In the post, Trump is depicted in U.S. Army fatigues and sunglasses and wearing a Stetson U.S. Cavalry hat like the lieutenant colonel portrayed in the movie by actor Robert Duvall.

“Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” Trump wrote, a day after signing an executive order to rename the Department of Defense to its pre-1949 title.

The posting was Trump’s latest signal t

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