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ARTICLE VIEW:
Trump says Chicago ‘will find out why it’s called the Department of
WAR’ ahead of planned crackdown
By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN
Updated:
4:38 PM EDT, Sat September 6, 2025
Source: CNN
President Donald Trump on social media Saturday saying that Chicago
“will find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” as the
city’s officials brace for an immigration crackdown.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning … Chicago about to
find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the post reads.
Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the
“Department of War.”
The post includes what appears to be an artificially generated image of
the president wearing a hat and sunglasses, with the Chicago skyline in
the background, accompanied by text reading “Chipocalypse Now.”
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Saturday called Trump’s post
“not normal.”
“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,” .
“Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois
won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
It comes as Trump has ramped up his rhetoric against the country’s
third most-populous city. CNN the Trump administration’s plans to
conduct a major immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, and that
officials there were bracing for it to begin as early as Friday.
In recent days, personnel from Immigration and Border Protection as
well as Customs and Border Protection have begun trickling into the
city, White House officials told CNN.
The Trump administration has also reserved the right to call in the
National Guard if there is a reaction to the operation that warrants
it, the officials said. The Chicago operation is being modeled off of a
similar operation carried out in Los Angeles in June. A judge ruled
this week that the June deployment broke federal law prohibiting the
military from law enforcement activity on US soil in most cases; the
Trump administration has appealed.
White House officials have made clear the Chicago immigration crackdown
is distinct from the idea to use federal law enforcement and National
Guard troops to carry out a broader crime crackdown in the city,
similar to the operation in Washington, DC.
When asked by a reporter Tuesday about sending National Guard troops
into the city, Trump said, “We’re going,” adding, “I didn’t
say when. We’re going in.”
Democratic officials who represent Chicago and Illinois also condemned
Trump’s post Saturday.
“The President’s threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but
the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our
Constitution,” wrote Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson . “We must
defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each
other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump.”
Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth described Trump’s post as “Stolen
valor at its worst,” writing, “Take off that Cavalry hat, you draft
dodger. You didn’t earn the right to wear it.”
Rep. Mike Quigley, who represents part of Chicago, said Saturday
afternoon on CNN that the post is an example of Trump “edging more
and more toward authoritarianism.”
“This is a scary time. For those who haven’t paid attention, it’s
time to watch what this president is doing,” Quigley said.
This story has been updated with additional information.
CNN’s Alayna Treene contributed to this report.
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