Trump rages at reporter who asks if he's 'going to war' with US cities

Donald Trump was filmed lashing out at a reporter who questioned if he was 'going to war' with US cities.

The US leader has made a number of increasingly reactionary moves when it comes to his immigration policies, which included illegally deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles as well as launching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Boston and Washington D.C.

Trump's latest target in his immigration crusade is the city of Chicago, with the 79-year-old issuing a rather ominous message to the Illinois capital on social media.

Taking to Truth Social, Trump shared an AI recreation of the Apocalypse Now film poster titled, 'Chipocalypse Now' writing: "I love the smell of deportations in the morning.

"Chicago about to find out why its called the Department of War."

Trump was not happy to be questioned about the contents of his social media posts (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The Department of War of course being in reference to Trump's recent decision to give the US Department of Defence a more aggressive rebrand.

Trump's words understandably left the people of Chicago feeling more than a little alarmed; however when the president was confronted about using war-like language he appeared to do a complete 180 and angrily rebuffed the accusation that he'd threatened war with a US city.

"If you say that darling, that is fake news," Trump says, while learning towards the journalist, was was reportedly NBC’s White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.

Which is of course a little confusing, given the fact that Trump wrote that Chicago was 'about to find out' why he'd added the word 'war' to a department's name.

Alcindor then attempts to rephrase her question, prompting the president to abruptly cut her off.

"Listen, be quiet," he interrupted, going on to attack the woman's credentials as a journalist.

"You don’t listen, you never listen, that is why you are second rate, we are not going to war."

He continued: "We are going to clean up our cities, we are going to clean them up so they don’t kill five people every weekend.

"That is not war, that is common sense."

Trump is of course no stranger when it comes to lashing out at reporters over the questions they ask or the organisations they work for, with the president previously snapping at journalists who ask more critical questions and refusing to answer questions from certain news outlets at times.

And don't get him started on questions about Jeffery Epstein or criticism of the 'Big Beautiful Bill'.

Meanwhile, his comments towards Chicago have been met with intense backlash online, with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker writing: "The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke," in a response on X.