- The protesters march in Chicago against the deployment of the troops.
- Governor Pritzker hits Trump’s threat against Chicago.
- “This is not a joke,” says Pritzker in the publication of social networks.
President Donald Trump has threatened to release his “newly renamed war department” in Chicago, further increasing tensions about his impulse to deploy troops in US cities led by Democrat.
The measure seeks to replicate an operation in the capital of the United States, Washington, where Trump deployed National Guard troops and increased the number of federal agents, generating a reaction and a new protest on Saturday that attracted thousands.
“Chicago is about to discover why the war department is called,” Trump published on Saturday in his social account of truth.
Illinois Democratic governor, where Chicago is located, expressed outrage in Trump’s post.
“The president of the United States threatens to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal,” Governor JB Pritzker wrote in an X publication.
“Illinois will not be intimidated by an aspiring dictator,” he added.
The publication presented an apparent image of Trump’s AI and the appointment: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”, both references to the 1979 Vietnam War film “Apocalypse Now.”
In the film, the line is pronounced by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, who says he loves the smell of “Napalm”, no “deportations”, since the US army drops the highly flammable weapon in the Vietnamese objectives.
The 79 -year -old Republican has constantly increased threats against Chicago since an early mention at the end of August.
Anti-Trump protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Saturday, with signs that said “this fascist regime!” and “no Trump, without troops.”
The protest route also went through the Trump Tower of Chicago, and the protesters made rude gestures in the president’s building while they passed.
On Saturday in the capital of the United States, where the National Guard troops have been deployed since Trump declared an “emergency of the crime” in August, a march of protest of thousands of people in the city center with participants demanded the end of the “occupation.”
DC protesters carried inverted flags while passing through the country’s national monuments, traditionally a symbol of a country that faces existential danger.
The deployments of Trump federal troops and agents, which began in June in Los Angeles, followed by Washington, have caused legal challenges and protests, and critics are called an authoritarian strength sample.
Local officials in Los Angeles spoke against the deployments and violent tactics used by ICE agents in Los Angeles, who often used masks, drove in unmarked cars and persecuted people from the streets without cause or orders.
In addition to Chicago, Trump has threatened to replicate the increase in Baltimore and New Orleans led by Democrat.
On Friday, Trump signed an order that changed the name of the Department of Defense to the War Department, saying that he sends “a message of victory” to the world.
The chief of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, cheered the movement, saying that the United States will require violence decisively to achieve its objectives, without apologies.
