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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts) Sat Sep 6, 2025, 01:32 PM Sep 6

'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with 'Department of War' and suggests ICE raids imminent

Source: The Independent

Saturday 06 September 2025 12:52 EDT

Communities across Chicago are preparing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids to begin as soon as Saturday, which President Donald Trump appeared to confirm in a bizarre Truth Social post this morning.

For weeks, the Trump administration has said Chicago is its next target in fulfilling the president’s mass deportation agenda. But they’ve provided few details about when it could begin or what law enforcement officials would be involved.

On Saturday morning, the president appeared to confirm Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s suspicion that operations would begin this weekend, ahead of Mexican Independence Day celebrations, with an AI-generated image of himself boasting about deportations. “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” Trump’s post read.

Attached was an AI-generated version of Trump in a cowboy hat, U.S. Army fatigues and aviator sunglasses with military helicopters flying low over the Chicago skyline, engulfed in flames. On the image was written, “Chipocalypse Now”, appearing to reference the 1979 Vietnam War movie, “Apocalypse Now” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” is perhaps the film’s most famous line.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/chicago-ice-raids-mexican-independence-day-b2821485.html

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'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with 'Department of War' and suggests ICE raids imminent (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 6 OP

Chicago: Bayard Sep 6 #1

This makes me incredibly angry. yardwork Sep 6 #2

So he's going to war with American cities IronLionZion Sep 6 #3

No. He's using AI to tell that story. The facts on the ground will be different. ancianita Sep 6 #4

No, the decision to start using "Department of War" was his, not AI's. muriel_volestrangler Sep 6 #5

I was responding to the conclusion: "So he's going to war with American cities" ancianita Sep 6 #6

But the point is it's not "an AI about going to war with blue cities" muriel_volestrangler Sep 6 #7

I hear you. He's using AI to provoke. ancianita Sep 6 #8

Bayard

(26,974 posts)

1. Chicago:

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 01:36 PM

Sep 6

War has been declared on your city. Invasion imminent.

yardwork

(68,049 posts)

2. This makes me incredibly angry.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 01:38 PM

Sep 6

Trump should be impeached for this. I know he won't be, but he should.

IronLionZion

(49,903 posts)

3. So he's going to war with American cities

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:06 PM

Sep 6

Department of War is going internal, kind of like the Chinese military. If any DUers be wondering why the world's largest military hasn't been at war with anyone lately, it's because China uses it for internal population control and intimidation.

ancianita

(41,827 posts)

4. No. He's using AI to tell that story. The facts on the ground will be different.

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:07 PM

Sep 6

We need to keep our heads about AI use. Because AI will be one tool he uses to foment panic and chaos to justify invoking martial law. Nowadays, his digital team or his sympathizers do this so he doesn't get charged with saying the words himself, like he did on Jan 6.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,720 posts)

5. No, the decision to start using "Department of War" was his, not AI's.

Reply to ancianita (Reply #4)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:22 PM

Sep 6

And there's no way AI said that in the tweet either - it wouldn't have the training. That was Trump, or flunkeys acting on his behalf (and I reckon for bullshitting about Chicago, he'd insist on OKing whatever they wrote).

Since the supine SC 6 gave him immunity for acts as president, he knows he won't get charged for this. He won't need to pretend "my digital team said this without my permission".

ancianita

(41,827 posts)

6. I was responding to the conclusion: "So he's going to war with American cities"

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:43 PM

Sep 6

Right. AI isn't trump. AI can't be proven to be "internal" to the Dept of War, either.
And that's exactly the point -- the felon won't be accountable for what humans do as a result of "others" using AI.

And yes, as of at least a year ago, an AI developer, Mo Gawdat, claimed that AI does have all the LLM knowledge on the planet, including the making of videos, memes or anything movie based that could be laid out on Truth Social.

It's one thing for trump to own and use Truth Social, per the OP, to do war talk, as he did:

On Saturday morning, the president appeared to confirm Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s suspicion that operations would begin this weekend, ahead of Mexican Independence Day celebrations, with an AI-generated image of himself boasting about deportations. “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” Trump’s post read.

Attached was an AI-generated version of Trump in a cowboy hat, U.S. Army fatigues and aviator sunglasses with military helicopters flying low over the Chicago skyline, engulfed in flames. On the image was written, “Chipocalypse Now”, appearing to reference the 1979 Vietnam War movie, “Apocalypse Now” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” is perhaps the film’s most famous line.

It's another thing to draw the conclusion that two things -- renaming the DOD, and posting an AI about going to war with blue cities -- are tantamount to a declaration of war.
I'd still call what he's trying out, his "story" of war. Same as the story that he ended seven wars. You call it bullshitting about Chicago.

I'll wait until Pritzker tells us what trump's lying about and actually doing.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,720 posts)

7. But the point is it's not "an AI about going to war with blue cities"

Reply to ancianita (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:49 PM

Sep 6

It's Trump saying he's going to war, and his flunkies illustrating it with AI pictures based on "Apocalypse Now". And no, I don't think AI came up with "Chipocalypse Now" either. Humans said "we'll use that, and "I love the smell of...", and told AI to use Apocalypse Now for the pictures.

A typical AI may have had "all the LLM knowledge" (a tautology, surely) a year ago, but the point is that "the Department of War" is from yesterday, not a year ago.

ancianita

(41,827 posts)

8. I hear you. He's using AI to provoke.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #7)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:01 PM

Sep 6

There's still a law on the books about using the military on civilians.

But as you also said, he's bullshitting about Chicago.

You misquote me with " 'all the LLM knowledge" (a tautology, surely)' ", when I said "AI developer, Mo Gawdat, claimed that AI does have all the LLM knowledge on the planet, including the making of videos, memes or anything movie based..." Any prompt to AI to create an apocalyptic war message can easily produce the meme that trump posted on TS.

It was used as a provocation. JB says he's "threatened," but I doubt JB will be provoked to act on that ahead of what happens on the ground in Chicago.

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