A week or so ago, Donald Trump posted on his social media platform an AI image that is hard to pretend is anything but a threat of war against the city of Chicago, Illinois, though he quickly did, with typical charm. This escalation of rhetoric happened after months of masked ICE agent abductions in the Chicago area, tossing the people they’ve nabbed without warning into vans with blacked out windows and then opaque detention/prison systems. After seeing how Trump has turned federal operatives into his personal army in Los Angeles and now Washington, D.C., and seeing how blue state communities with high immigrant populations are being targeted, was there a different way to interpret his post? Sure, it could have been just trolling, he’s no stranger to that, but in his trolling, he managed to reveal a truth that is