The Trump administration said on Monday that it was launching an operation targeting “criminal illegal aliens” in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.

The announcement came two days after President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now . In the film, Kilgore – an Air Cavalry Regiment commander who refers to Vietnamese people with a number of vile slurs – annihilates a village to secure a beach for surfing. Trump’s AI image was captioned with a riff on the character’s most famous line: “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’”

“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the president’s post continued. It came a day a

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