The Trump administration said on Monday that it was launching an operation targeting “criminal illegal aliens” in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.

The announcement came two days after President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now. In the film, Kilgore – an Air Cavalry Regiment commander who refers to Vietnamese people with a number of vile slurs – annihilates a village to secure a beach for surfing. Trump’s AI image was captioned with a riff on the character’s most famous line: “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’”

“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the president’s post continued. It came a day after Trump signed an executive order changing the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War.

Following backlash to his threat to make war on America’s third largest city, Trump assured Chicagoans that “Only the Criminals will be hurt!” in another post.

That has not reassured Chicago’s elected officials.

“Trump swore an oath to protect the American people and defend the Constitution. Instead, he is declaring war on every American – including Chicagoans – who stands against his fascist agenda,” Congressmember Delia Ramirez, D-Ill, told The Intercept. “Attacking American cities and wasting billions of dollars on unlawful activities, while cutting essential services for working families are the tactics of wannabe dictators. Trump has betrayed his Constitutional duties and should be impeached.”