Over the weekend, outraging most Chicagoans and upending whatever norms remain in this nation, Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social network, “Chicago about to find out why they call it the Department of WAR.”

With the tagline “Chipocalypse Now,” he posted a cheesy image Saturday with helicopters flying over the city and with Trump’s face imposed on the body of “Apocalypse Now” actor Robert Duvall, who played the crazy Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 movie.

Trump walked back (kinda) the sophomoric war talk Sunday, and, as always, his supporters claimed that his performative bluster was not to be taken literally. One indeed hopes that the president of the United States does not plan to go to war with the nation’s third largest city, but we’ve heard far too much of th

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