President Donald Trump on Sunday berated a reporter who asked about his repeated threats to send the military into Chicago.
“Are you trying to go to war with Chicago?” asked NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor one day after the president threatened the city with the “Department of WAR” in a social media post.
“When you say that, darling, that’s fake news,” Trump fired back.
When Alcindor tried to ask a follow-up, Trump lost it.
“Listen. Be quiet. Listen,” he demanded. “You don’t listen. You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate.”
Trump also denied “war” with Chicago.
“We’re not going to war. We’re gonna clean up our city. We’re gonna clean ’em up so they don’t kill five people every weekend,” he said. “That’s not war. That’s common sense.”
Trump on Saturday posted an image of himself in a scene from “Apocalypse Now” with the phrase “Chipocalypse Now” over it and an image of the city’s skyline with military choppers behind him.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” Trump posted. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
His critics called him out for berating Alcindor: