Overview

• The president posted an AI-generated 'Chipocalypse Now' image and wrote, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning," warning that Chicago would "find out why it's called the Department of WAR."
• He signed an executive order to rebrand the Pentagon as the Department of War, a change that still requires congressional approval.
• Thousands marched in Chicago and Washington, D.C., to oppose expanded immigration raids and the domestic use of federal forces.
• Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and Democratic lawmakers condemned the threat, with Pritzker warning of a lawsuit over any troop deployment without state permission.
• The administration is intensifying immigration enforcement elsewhere, with ICE confirming a Boston operation and a record Georgia plant raid, while prior deployments face lawsuits and a judge has ruled the Los Angeles mission violated limits on military policing; the vice president says there are no immediate plans to send the Guard to Chicago.