President Donald Trump invoked a dark twist on a famous movie line this week, sharing an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself as a war-movie character while warning Chicago of looming deportations.

“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it is called the Department of WAR,” Trump posted alongside an image of himself as Robert Duvall’s character from the 1979 film “Apocalypse Now” with helicopters hovering above the Chicago city skyline.

The Trump administration is preparing to send at least 300 federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other agencies to the Great Lakes Naval Base in North Chicago, Illinois. The mobilization is part of what officials describe as enhanced immigration enforcement operations slated to begin this weekend.

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