, Sept. 7 -- United States President Donald Trump has warned of unleashing his newly renamed "Department of War" on Chicago, sparking outrage and protests in both Chicago and Washington, DC, against the deployment of National Guard troops and immigration agents in Democratic-led cities.

Trump made the threat on Saturday through a post on his Truth Social platform, sharing a parody image from the film Apocalypse Now that depicted flames and helicopters over Chicago's skyline. "'I love the smell of deportations in the morning,'" he wrote. "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR."

The president offered no further details, only adding the phrase "Chipocalypse Now," a play on the 1979 Vietnam War film where the line ...