President Donald Trump insisted this Saturday in his campaign of interventions to the big cities of the United States, after he published on his social networks a threat of bringing a “war” with deportations to Chicago, the third city of the US and one of the sanctuary cities criticized by their administration for protecting undocumented immigrants.
The president used an image of parody of the famous film about the Vietnam War “Apocalypse Now” of 1979. The graphic shows the silhouette of the famous skyscrapers of Chicago, with five military helicopters flying over the Michigan lake, the flames of a fire or presumable bombardment, and the phrase “Chipocalypse Now”.
And Trump himself appears wearing a uniform similar to that of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Jlagore, a character of the film that leaves the iconic phrase of “I love the smell of the Neapalm in the morning”, which is considered emblematic about the horrors and the absurdity of the war.
In his message Trump added the phrases “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”, and “Chicago is about to be discovered because the war department is called,” adding helicopter icons, one of the military units most associated with the Vietnam War.
The Department of Defense from this Friday bears the secondary name of “Guerra”, after the executive order of Trump ordering the change of denomination, which needs the Congress approval to be final.
His administration is willing to intensify the application of immigration laws in Chicago, as he did in Los Angeles in June, before protests against migratory raids, and to deploy National Guard troops, as happened in Washington DC.
The Republican Head of State has threatened with similar operations in Baltimore and New Orleans, cities also governed by Democrats.
On Saturday, a large protest march toured the Washington DC center claiming the end of the “occupation.”
Trump’s publications on social networks were rejected by the governor of Illinois, the Democrat JB Pritzker, who warned that “the president of the United States threatens to enter war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal.”
Pritzker said that “Donald Trump is not a strong man, he is an scared man. Illinois will not be intimidated by an aspiring dictator.”
Trump has suggested that he has almost unlimited powers when deploying the National Guard. Sometimes he has even touched the issue of whether he is a dictator.
“Most people say: ‘If they call him dictator, if he ends crime, it may be what he wants,’ I am not a dictator, by the way,” Trump said last month. And he added: “It’s not that I didn’t have,” he would, “right to do what he wants.”
“I am the president of the United States,” Trump said. “If I think our country is in danger – and it is in these cities – I can do it.”
