‘Unhinged and Anti-American’: Critics Erupt Over Trump‘s AI-Generated Threat
Donald Trump critics were beside themselves over the president’s Saturday Truth Social post that featured an AI re-imagining of the war movie “Apocalypse Now,” which he rebranded as “Chipocalypse Now.”
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning…” Trump posted. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” in reference to Trump’s rebranding of the Department of Defense.
Behind an AI-generated image of Trump as a key character in the movie is a depiction of Chicago burning with helicopters hovering over the city.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) was quick to respond on X, writing, “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. We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) also posted a response on X, writing, “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.”
If Trump does order troops into Chicago, it will be the third American city to have been forcibly invaded, behind Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) warned Americans not to “become numb” to Trump’s heavy-handed tactics.
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