The president shared a meme captioned, ‘Chicago about to find out why it’s referred to as the Division of WAR.’
President Donald Trump on Sept. 6, amplified his rhetoric on sending Nationwide Guard troops to Chicago by posting a meme that avowed his love of deportations and linked his current rebranding of the Division of Protection to the Division of Conflict to his give attention to this metropolis.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” reads the caption for the meme Trump shared on his Fact Social platform. The caption was superimposed over a picture of Trump in a military-style uniform, squatting in entrance of a fiery backdrop, with a collection of helicopters flying previous a metropolis skyline.
“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the meme caption continues.
The meme additionally features a emblem studying “Chipocalypse Now,” with the meme invoking the Vietnam Conflict movie “Apocalypse Now” and a scene from the movie through which an Military officer oversees a bloody helicopter-borne assault on a Vietnamese village.
Trump not too long ago raised the thought of sending Nationwide Guard troops to intervene in Chicago’s regulation enforcement amid issues for native residents’ security.
The social media publish additionally comes a day after the president signed an government order to discuss with the Division of Protection because the Division of Conflict, and to the place of the Secretary of Protection because the Secretary of Conflict. A full renaming of the division and its Cupboard secretary would require an act of Congress however Trump has stated the rebranding has “a stronger sound” and evokes a give attention to successful wars.
Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was fast to sentence Trump’s social media publish and inferred a warlike risk from the president’s message.
“The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal,” Pritzker wrote in a publish on X on Saturday. “Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
A federal regulation generally known as the Posse Comitatus Act limits using lively responsibility armed forces and federalized Nationwide Guard for home regulation enforcement functions. Some restricted authorities, together with the Rebellion Act, enable a president to commit federalized troops to home regulation enforcement functions.
Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have already indicated that they plan to lift authorized challenges if Trump deploys Nationwide Guard troops within the metropolis.
State and native leaders have already raised authorized challenges to related troop deployments, ordered by Trump in Los Angeles and within the nation’s capital.
The White Home has defended Trump’s current discuss of a crackdown in Chicago and pushed again on native leaders opposing the potential motion.
“It is despicable that state and local leaders in Illinois would rather let crime continue to plague their cities than partner with President Trump to make their communities safe again,” spokeswoman Taylor Rogers instructed The Epoch Instances this week.
Chase Smith contributed to this report.
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