“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Monday mocked President Donald Trump for posting an image of himself as a character from the Vietnam War film “Apocalypse Now” while threatening the city of Chicago.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” Trump posted over the weekend. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Trump, who is trying to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, has repeatedly threatened to send the military into the city, as he has done in Washington, D.C.
His new social media post mimicked an image from the movie but had the Chicago skyline in the background and said “Chipocalypse Now.”
Trump depicted himself as Robert Duvall’s character, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore:
“Check out Col. Bone Spurs,” Colbert cracked, referring to a disputed diagnosis the president used to avoid actual military service during the Vietnam War. “That is clearly AI, because if Trump ever actually crouched like that, his cankles would pop like water balloons.”
See more in his Monday night monologue:
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