So why post that ridiculous, vomit-inducing image then, you utter moron?
President Trump on Sunday attempted to downplay his social media post that appeared to threaten to declare war on Chicago, saying that he merely wanted to “clean up” the city.
Speaking to reporters before he departed the White House for the U.S. Open, Mr. Trump addressed his post from Saturday in which he invoked his newly rebranded name for the Pentagon with an image that included helicopters, billowing flames and the Chicago skyline. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” read the post, titled “Chipocalypse Now,” a reference to the 1979 war movie “Apocalypse Now.”
On Sunday, when asked whether he was “threatening to go to war with Chicago,” Mr. Trump called it “fake news,” and chastised the reporter when she asked why he would use the Department of Defense.
“We’re not going to war, we’re going to clean up our cities,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re going to clean them up so they don’t kill five people every weekend. That’s not war. That’s common sense.”...
...In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said that the words in the post were “taken out of context,” when asked whether the president planned to go to war in Chicago.
The post, he said, was intended to convey that the administration is “going to war with the criminal cartels; we’re going to war with illegal aliens, public safety threats,” and cited previous operations in the city that nabbed violent criminals in the country illegally.
(from NYT)