On Saturday, Donald Trump caused a sensation online by posting a parody movie poster of “Apocalypse Now,” showing him in Chicago and titled “Chipocalypse Now.” So why would Trump want to come in and clean up Chicago bigly?
Well, most of us already know the answer — the rampant crime and the sanctuary city policies. But just to illustrate with full clarity why Trump is disgusted with Chicago’s Democrat leaders, let’s break down some numbers.
"CHIPOCALYPSE" NOW 😎🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ylfPekDeu7
— Brassringdrew (@BrassringDrew) September 6, 2025
First of all, there’s the cost of sponsoring hordes of illegal aliens at taxpayer expense. Illinois will have spent a staggering $2.5 billion of taxpayer cash on illegals by the end of this year, mostly on healthcare. But Chicago also expends city taxpayer funds to excessive amounts on illegals. Its illegal alien funding bill was $400 million+ in the two years leading up to June 2024. You can bet they’ve thrown millions more down the toilet since.
Yet even Chicago was so broke that last year it started merging its migrant shelter system with its homeless shelter system. The claim was that they were addressing “inequities.” Besides the fact that’s meaningless pablum, why would one doubt that? Because Chicago is facing a $1.15 billion budget shortfall for the fiscal year 2026 budget. And of course the “migrants” in shelters weren’t even as lucky as the illegal aliens lodging in Chicago hotels. Sponsoring illegal aliens gets expensive.
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Then there’s the crime. This year nearly 280 people have been murdered in Chicago. Over Labor Day weekend alone, eight people were killed and 58 injured in shootings. Trump posted on Truth Social following the bloody holiday weekend, “CRIME IS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL IN CHICAGO.” That’s a major understatement.
The president angrily declared, “At least 54 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, 8 people were killed. The last two weekends were similar. Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far. Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet. I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC. Chicago will be safe again, and soon. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Which hasn’t stopped idiot leftists in Chicago from pretending that Trump wanting to save black lives by targeting crime is the problem instead of the crime:
Anti-Trump protest now underway in downtown Chicago to oppose President Trump’s plan to send in the National Guard and federal agents to lower the city’s crime rate:
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) September 6, 2025
“This administration has waged war on anybody in this country who is a threat to white supremacy.”@theblaze pic.twitter.com/jvNfttWBaD
Trump doesn’t want to send in the National Guard because he’s a racist dictator. He recognizes that crime is completely out of control in our big cities, with violent crime in some cases surpassing the rates in third world dictatorships’ cities, while resources are wasted on unnecessary and unjustifiable beneficiaries such as illegal aliens.
The president has been extraordinarily successful at bringing down violent crime in a short space of time in Washington, D.C. He could probably do the same for Chicago if the Democrats there weren’t more in love with their own power than they are with actually doing their jobs well.
