Updated September 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM PDT

President 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 the conservative 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 to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War, having stated that the new title "just sounded to me better

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