CNN�s Jake Tapper confronted Trump administration border czar Tom Homan on Sunday over a Truth Social meme posted by President Donald Trump that depicted Chicago as a burning battlefield.
The meme, styled after the film Apocalypse Now, showed Trump�s face superimposed on the body of fictional character Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, with the caption: �I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it�s called the Department of WAR.�
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasted the post, writing on X: �The president of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is normal. Donald Trump isn�t a strong man. He�s a scared man. Illinois won�t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.�
�Is President Trump planning to go to war in Chicago?� Tapper asked on State of the Union.
Homan defended the post, saying Trump�s words were being twisted. �We�re going to war with the criminal cartels. We�re going to war with illegal aliens � public-safety threats that rape children, that commit armed robberies, that distribute narcotics that kill Americans,� Homan said. �And Governor Pritzker protects criminal, illegal alien, public-safety threats every day in that state.�
Tapper shot back: �So maybe it should say criminal aliens in Chicago are about to find out why it�s called the Department of War, not Chicago itself.�
Tapper pressed further on whether Trump is planning to send National Guard or federal troops into Chicago.
�Is the president talking about sending National Guard troops and other federal troops into Chicago to handle deportations, or to handle violent criminals, or both?� Tapper asked.
Homan responded: �Look, National Guard are always on the table. We used them in Los Angeles, and we used them in Washington, D.C. They�re a force multiplier. Do they arrest illegal aliens? No. ICE officers and Border Patrol agents with Title 8 authority arrest illegal criminal aliens. But the National Guard provides protection, infrastructure, transportation, processing capability � which allows those with badges and guns to stay on the street arresting the bad guy. So yeah, they�re on the table.�
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A degenerate adulterous felon is degrading and turning the US into a joke. Speaking of military operations, he is responsible for the North Korean operation which was not only a total failure, but resulted in the murder of innocent civilians. And illegally hid it from congress. A cover up like epstein.