Overview

• Pressed on Sunday about his Truth Social message, Trump said, "We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our cities."
• Saturday’s post featured an AI image styled on Apocalypse Now with the line, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning" and a warning to Chicago.
• Trump signed an executive order making "Department of War" a secondary title for the Pentagon, a symbolic change that would require congressional approval to be permanent.
• Planning documents reported by local media point to Naval Station Great Lakes as a staging site for stepped-up ICE operations in the Chicago area, with no National Guard orders issued yet.
• White House border czar Tom Homan said enforcement in sanctuary cities, including Chicago, could begin this week as thousands protested in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and officials prepared lawsuits citing past rulings against similar deployments.