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President Donald Trump on Saturday gave possibly his strongest hint yet that he may deploy federal troops to Chicago by posting a parody meme of himself as a commander at war with Chicago – drawing a swift rebuke from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other officials who said the post amounted to a threat.

In the image, Trump, known to provoke his opponents with his savvy use of social media, is styled as Robert Duvall’s character in "Apocalypse Now," a Vietnam War epic about a decorated U.S. officer who has gone rogue deep in the Cambodian jungle.

"I love the smell of deportations in the morning…" Trump wrote above the image, a play on the famous quote from the hit 1979 film.

"Chicago is about to find out why it’s called t

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