Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Sunday after she pressed him on his mounting threats of war against U.S. cities. “When you say that, darling, that’s fake news,” he sneered outside the White House in footage aired by Fox News. “Be quiet and listen. You don’t listen, you never listen. That’s why you’re second rate. We’re not going to war—we’re gonna clean up our cities. We’re gonna clean them up so they don’t kill five people every weekend. That’s not war, that’s common sense.” His comments were an about-face from his Truth Social post only the day before, in which he said “Chicago [is] about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” invoking the new moniker he gave the Pentagon. The post had further featured an AI-generated image of the president as one of the characters from Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic 1979 Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now, along with helicopters flying over the city and a fire raging behind him.
