US President Donald Trump has posted an AI image of himself against a flaming Chicago skyline with helicopters amid his bid to step up immigration enforcement in the city.
The image, shared to Truth Social, depicted Trump as a police officer and featured the text “Chipocalypse Now!”, seemingly a reference to 1979 war film “Apocalypse Now”.
The caption read: “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR. I love the smell of deportations in the morning.”
Trump ordered the US Defence Department to be renamed the Department of War on Friday.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has condemned Trump’s plan and recent AI post, calling the president a “dictator”.
He posted on X: “The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
“Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.”
It comes after the US president threatened to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago to combat crime in the city, as well as sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to target illegal immigrants.
The details for his proposed operation remain unclear, but opposition protests took place in the city on Saturday evening.
More than a thousand protesters marched through the streets with signs bearing slogans like “ICE out of Illinois, ICE out of everywhere.”
Speakers offered the crowd instructions on what to do if encountering Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Meanwhile, South Korea has reached a deal with the US to secure the release of more than 300 South Korean workers detained at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.
Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff for President Lee Jae Myung, said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed.
US immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals. None have been charged with any crimes yet, according to Homeland Security Investigations.
The operation was the latest a long line of workplace raids conducted as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.
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