President Donald Trump threatened the city of Chicago on Saturday with the deportation of suspected undocumented immigrants, as Illinois' most populous city — along with Baltimore and New Orleans — prepared for the potential arrival of National Guard troops.
"'I love the smell of deportations in the morning...'" Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, alongside a doctored photo of himself depicted as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now.
"Chicago [is] about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," the post continued.
Trump on Friday signed an executive order indicating he will refer to the Defense Department as the Department of War. He stated that the new title "just sounded to me better" — though he lacks legal authority to change th