President Trump slammed NBC News White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor after she asked if he was "going to war" with Chicago on Sunday.
Alcindor, who has a long history of clashing with the President in her role as an agitator for whatever press outlet she happens to be working for at the time, asked, "Are you trying to go to war with Chicago?"
It was a question that suggests the NBC reporter took a meme Trump posted over the weekend quite seriously.
"Be quiet, listen! You don’t listen! You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate," the President accurately replied.
What's more is that he rightly explained why a forthcoming deployment of federal agents to Chicago is not a hostile act, but rather, a common-sense defense of a once-revered city that has fallen into violent disrepair under Democrat leadership.
"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," he countered. "That’s not war, that’s common sense."
.@POTUS BODIES @Yamiche for asking if we're "going to war with Chicago":
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 7, 2025
"You never listen. That's why you're second-rate. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our cities... so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war. That's common sense." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/SJluB8lbyX
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To clarify, what has triggered Alcindor in this case, along with raising the ire of prominent Democrats such as the ham-fisted governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, was a meme.
A meme.
As reported by RedState Editor Bob Hoge, the President posted an image depicting himself as Robert Duvall’s character, Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore, from "Apocalypse Now."
It read, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning," while suggesting Chicago was about to find out why he changed the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump just shared this hilarious meme saying he "loves the smell of deportations in the morning" as he prepares to send the National Guard into Chicago. pic.twitter.com/f7cZDLV5P1
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) September 6, 2025
Trump's meme had its intended effect. Supporters of the President took it for what it was - funny and harmless - while the left went apoplectic and suggested it was evidence he is a dictator. Because that's something we've never heard them say before.
"The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal," Pritzker said of the very normal joke. "Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator."
Intimidated. Like the roast beef on half-off night at the Golden Corral near the Illinois governor's mansion.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin also chimed in, calling Trump's meme "embarrassing."
"While Trump’s methods may be unorthodox, it’s also true that what most big city leaders are doing simply isn’t working. Cashless bail, soft-on-crime prosecutors, and a revolving door at the jailhouse mean we see similar headlines to this every day: 'Career Criminal Out on Bail Accused of...' yet another violent crime," Hoge writes.
"Meanwhile, they cry that the sky is falling whenever he opens his mouth, and their hysterics have caused them to lose what little credibility they had."
And, as has been the case for decades now, the old dinosaur legacy media comes plodding through and echoing their 'sky is falling' rhetoric for their audience.
It's embarrassing. It's second-rate.
Speaking of which, Alcindor will almost assuredly take to the airwaves to portray Trump's response to her question as misogynistic and/or racist. That's her shtick. When he encouraged her to "be nice" and engage in a little more positivity when she asked a question several years ago, Alcindor immediately took to social media to play the victim.
“President Trump today at the White House said to me: ‘Be nice. Don’t be threatening,'” she wrote on X at the time. “I’m not the first human being, woman, black person or journalist to be told that while doing a job.”
This is the same person who previously accused the President of turning the Republican Party into a white nationalist party.
“There are some people that say now the Republican Party is seen as supporting white nationalists because of your rhetoric,” she said in a heated exchange during his first term. “What do you think of that?”
Trump didn’t mince words on that either …
President Trump has been considering bringing in the National Guard to help clean up crime-infested blue cities such as Chicago, while recent reports indicate he is preparing to send at least 300 federal agents to help beef up immigration enforcement efforts in the Windy City.
"We're going to make our country very safe. We're going to make our cities very, very safe," Trump told reporters late last month. "Chicago's a mess, you have an incompetent mayor - grossly incompetent - and we'll straighten that one out probably next. That will be our next one after this."
Chicago is a mess, and their Democrat leaders are more offended by a meme they are of the endless stream of murders and shootings on their streets.
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