As if to demonstrate this, Trump, in September, posted an image to social media casting himself as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, the avatar of sanctioned bloodlust from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” In the accompanying text, Trump had altered Kilgore’s famous line—“I love the smell of napalm in the morning”—to suit his fantasy, replacing “napalm” with “deportations.” (He also supplied a new theatrical title: “Chipocalypse Now.”) The shoddy edit shows a fleet of Huey helicopters flying past the unmistakable skyline; the sky, meanwhile, is yellowed by explosions. This is Chicago as your average Fox viewer, including millions who live beyond the city’s limits in what Illinoisans call Chicagoland, imagines it—our lake as a lake of fire.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter