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swag

(26,565 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:45 PM Sunday

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happe

Source: KGW Portland

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

Author: Evan Watson

PORTLAND, Ore. — President Donald Trump appears to be cooling on his plans to send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, according to an interview Sunday morning with NBC.

When asked whether he is still sending troops to Portland, which he described as "War ravaged" in a social media post Saturday, Trump said his administration will make a decision on that 'pretty soon.'

"Well, I mean, we're certainly looking at it," Trump said. "You can't have that. We don't want that. They're attacking our ICE facility and they're attacking other federal buildings."
. . .
"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible."



Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trump-seems-to-back-off-portland-military-plan/283-e9c6bdfb-92d6-4881-bb74-09bb325a5270

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Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happe (Original Post) swag Sunday OP
This distraction is NOT working LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #1
That's because its for MAGA supporters and they ran the story on MAGA radio and you won't see a correction made there. cstanleytech Sunday #18
I bet someone fed him old George Floyd protest videos. nt pnwmom Sunday #2
YUP. You beat me to it--- or maybe Jack Valentino Sunday #22
lol pnwmom Sunday #24
That's exactly what happened Wiz Imp Yesterday #31
Yup, Miller orangecrush Yesterday #45
Donny Dumb Shit: "Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" erronis Sunday #3
Not To Mention RobinA Sunday #11
if he only watches Fox or Newsman RussBLib Sunday #21
Stephen Miller cilla4progress Sunday #4
If only there were a way for the President of the United States to find out what's really happening! tanyev Sunday #5
Oh Please! Maybe you should actually confirm something before lying about it. travelingthrulife Sunday #6
ROFL... somebody showed him the optics... ananda Sunday #7
Local news broadcast a story from the ICE facility Thunderbeast Sunday #8
ha ha riversedge Sunday #12
Even maga... JawJaw Yesterday #28
One of them dressed in a chicken costume. Thunderbeast Yesterday #46
'seems to back off Portland military plan' elleng Sunday #9
But he watched it LIVE on the Miller channel. usonian Sunday #10
So Portland gets armored "Rescue" tanks rolling down the street for... a farmers' market? 😂 Nothing screams "protecting d riversedge Sunday #13
Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful' LetMyPeopleVote Sunday #14
This is the reason, imo. nilram Yesterday #36
Yeah hes been duped by the media. He should take out his wrath on fox news and the billionaires who are lying to him SSJVegeta Sunday #15
He won't. They lie for him all the time. mdbl Sunday #23
He doesn't care. It's not his money, whether judgement or deployment. Justice matters. Yesterday #40
TACO, TACO man!!!! He's got to be the TACO man!! paleotn Sunday #16
(National Guard has no litter to pick up in Portland.) riversedge Sunday #17
What a maroon! llmart Sunday #19
Yep. A real straightjacket case. Justice matters. Yesterday #41
Perhaps Trump has Portland OREGON confused with Portland MAINE Rocknation Sunday #20
Name names Diraven Sunday #25
The people who want him to send in military/martial law Attilatheblond Yesterday #37
or video from Ukraine or Gaza, and claiming that is Portland Oregon---- Jack Valentino Yesterday #39
OR, perhaps popsdenver Sunday #26
Idiocracy is a Documentary. n/t aggiesal Sunday #27
I watched that film several times, and thought . . . Aussie105 Yesterday #30
Q: What do you get when . . . Aussie105 Yesterday #29
T.A.C.O !! IbogaProject Yesterday #32
Dangerously Confused 2na fisherman Yesterday #33
Putin groomed him. Justice matters. Yesterday #42
Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland Wiz Imp Yesterday #34
Next stop: Grand Forks, North Dakota Montauk6 Yesterday #35
Trump: "well, I don't really know whom I want to invade, Jack Valentino Yesterday #38
Portland doesn't take any crap. Javaman Yesterday #43
And since he's Karma13612 Yesterday #44
MaddowBlog-Trump's troop deployment to Portland, Oregon, faces immediate pushback in court LetMyPeopleVote 22 hrs ago #47

cstanleytech

(27,953 posts)
18. That's because its for MAGA supporters and they ran the story on MAGA radio and you won't see a correction made there.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:10 PM
Sunday

erronis

(21,409 posts)
3. Donny Dumb Shit: "Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:50 PM
Sunday

I don't know Donny. Where do you get your news from? Could it be propaganda from your friend in the Kremlin, or funded by Thiel, Musk, Bezos, etc.?

Is Stevie Miller your news digester? Served as a 24pt PowerPoint while you're scarfing down your 3rd budger for lunch?

Or some buddies on one of your golf courses who are amazingly knowledgeable about everything that they care about.

RobinA

(10,432 posts)
11. Not To Mention
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 05:30 PM
Sunday

that the POTUS should not be getting his understanding of what's happening from TV news.

cilla4progress

(26,451 posts)
4. Stephen Miller
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:57 PM
Sunday

trump is an empty sack of bile. He doesn't know and doesn't care. Miller is feeding him bullshit.

tanyev

(47,912 posts)
5. If only there were a way for the President of the United States to find out what's really happening!
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:58 PM
Sunday

ananda

(33,396 posts)
7. ROFL... somebody showed him the optics...
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 05:06 PM
Sunday

He's having a hard time finding a city warlike
enough.

Thunderbeast

(3,708 posts)
8. Local news broadcast a story from the ICE facility
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 05:11 PM
Sunday

Looked like about ten seniors sitting in lawn chairs holding signs. It is reported that whenever an ICE truck went in the garage, they were heard calling them not nice names.

OH....THE HUMANITY!

riversedge

(77,997 posts)
13. So Portland gets armored "Rescue" tanks rolling down the street for... a farmers' market? 😂 Nothing screams "protecting d
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:03 PM
Sunday

I have no way of confirming if this is indeed from Portland.

So Portland gets armored “Rescue” tanks rolling down the street for… a farmers’ market? 😂 Nothing screams “protecting democracy” like turning downtown into a cosplay warzone while actual threats (hi, missing Epstein files 👋 vanish into a black hole of “classified.” But sure, deploy half the Pentagon to chase granola moms and balloon artists. Your #MilitarizedMakeBelieve is basically #TheaterOfTheAbsurd with a $10B budget. Dumbass dystopia at its finest.


LetMyPeopleVote

(170,354 posts)
14. Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful'
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:20 PM
Sunday

Attorney General Rayfield and Governor Kotek say Oregon has no rebellion or unrest to justify President Trump's federal order deploying 200 National Guard troops.

Oregon is suing Trump

Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful' Attorney General Rayfield and Governor Kotek say Oregon has no rebellion or unrest to justify President Trump's federal order deploying 200 National Guard troops.
www.kgw.com/mobile/artic...

Catherine (@docspkfree.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T21:48:09.835Z

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/oregon-sues-trump-administration-national-guard-deployment/283-1ae97006-d7b3-418f-9b8e-979c7deef629

OREGON, USA — Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday that the state has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging that President Donald Trump unlawfully ordered the deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members for federal law enforcement duties.

The lawsuit, which was filed jointly by the State of Oregon and the City of Portland in U.S. District Court, challenges the legal basis of the federal order. It names President Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and their respective departments as defendants.

In a statement, Rayfield said the deployment is not based on any legitimate threat but is instead “about the President flexing political muscle under the guise of law and order.”

Oregon communities are stable, and our local officials have been clear: we have the capacity to manage public safety without federal interference,” Rayfield said. “Sending in 200 National Guard troops to guard a single building is not normal.”

According to the Oregon Department of Justice, the order was issued earlier in the day in a memo sent to Governor Tina Kotek. It authorized the guard to protect federal property for 60 days in areas “where protests are occurring or likely to occur.”

SSJVegeta

(1,595 posts)
15. Yeah hes been duped by the media. He should take out his wrath on fox news and the billionaires who are lying to him
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:34 PM
Sunday

Justice matters.

(8,930 posts)
40. He doesn't care. It's not his money, whether judgement or deployment.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 02:55 AM
Yesterday

He doesn't pay federal taxes (or very little like $750... each year for two years, and $0 the other years).

He donated $20 Billions to Argentina while they bankrupt "his" stupid* farmers (he does that with his sick tariffs).


*Because pedofelon bankrupts them over and over and they still support him.

riversedge

(77,997 posts)
17. (National Guard has no litter to pick up in Portland.)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:53 PM
Sunday


#VotingMatters❌ 👑Elon wants to silence us.
@pakitaleone
(National Guard has no litter to pick up in Portland.)
Trumprussia wants ICE Detention/Deportation/Prison Guard to take his orders.None should comply.☮️ 🇺🇸 🌼








What a pretty street …. Err, I mean, terrifying. Too many intriguing shops to explore.













llmart

(16,892 posts)
19. What a maroon!
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:36 PM
Sunday

I will never be able to wrap my mind around how we got here. It's like he escaped from an insane asylum and the people in charge aren't even looking for him.

Rocknation

(44,931 posts)
20. Perhaps Trump has Portland OREGON confused with Portland MAINE
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:43 PM
Sunday

or Portland CONNECTICUT or Portland INDIANA or Portland KENTUCKY or Portland MICHIGAN or Portland TENNESSEE or Portland TEXAS...if not POLAND in EUROPE.


Rocknation

Attilatheblond

(7,342 posts)
37. The people who want him to send in military/martial law
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 01:38 AM
Yesterday

wouldn't be surprised if they were showing him video from BLM protests from his last time in office & telling him it's what's happening now. He's so far gone, he wouldn't know what was real and would nod and give orders to stop 'the violence'. He's seeing summer reruns from years ago.

Jack Valentino

(3,385 posts)
39. or video from Ukraine or Gaza, and claiming that is Portland Oregon----
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 02:32 AM
Yesterday

FAUX NEWS and all the fucking rightwing morons have done such things more than once, and been caught doing it

and he's far too stupid to know the difference

popsdenver

(544 posts)
26. OR, perhaps
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:33 PM
Sunday

it is just yet another instance of him being DELUSIONAL, as he has been so increasingly often in the past..........

It is un-questionable that he has delusions of grandeur, and delusions of what his mind is telling him, vs what he knows to be reality......

With his mental chaos displayed this past week, it seems the dems should be asking the Repubs.......when is enough, enough........??????

There is absolutely NO reason or rational thinking in bringing the entire command, from all over the world, to one place at the same time !!!!!!!!!!!
It is absolute insanity of the highest level.........Or intentionally destroying the livelihood of farmers that all voted for you.......Or....etc etc etc

Aussie105

(7,265 posts)
30. I watched that film several times, and thought . . .
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:30 AM
Yesterday

it is a black comedy, imaginative but not realistic.

Yet here we are, just background actors in the film script being acted out in real life.

Aussie105

(7,265 posts)
29. Q: What do you get when . . .
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:26 AM
Yesterday

you take an old demented power freak, get him revved up and in a panic?

A: Trump.

Trump is out of his depth as Clown in . . . err, Commander in Chief.
He is scared of the future, doesn't want to lose control, and will do anything to . . . yeah nah, no idea, I really lost the plot when trying to work out what Trump is trying to do.

Stay out of jail? Wants the EPSTEIN!!!! thing to just go away?

2na fisherman

(103 posts)
33. Dangerously Confused
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:36 AM
Yesterday

What if he watched a nuclear war movie on television and thought the US was under attack so he ordered a nuclear missile strike. He's beginning to conflate his curated version of reality with actual events. He may yet doom us all.

Wiz Imp

(7,537 posts)
34. Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:44 AM
Yesterday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/trump-portland-video-protests#:~:text=Donald%20Trump-,Trump%2C%20apparently%20misled%20by%20video%20of%202020%20protests%2C%20threatens%20to,of%20the%20city%20for%20months.


Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland
US president mistakes scale of anti-Ice rallies after TV report uses old footage from George Floyd demonstrations

Robert Mackey
Fri 5 Sep 2025 21.49 EDT
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Donald Trump told reporters that he might send national guard troops into Portland, Oregon, apparently because he was misled about the scale of small protests there by a TV report that featured video of a 2020 protest wrongly described as having taken place this summer.

“I will say this, I watched today, I didn’t know that was continuing to go on, but Portland is unbelievable, what’s going on,” Trump said. He then claimed, incorrectly, that he had seen video evidence of “the destruction of the city”.

In fact, a handful of protesters have demonstrated outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in a residential area of Portland along the south waterfront this year, but the scale of the protests, which attract dozens at most, is nothing like the 2020 protests following the police killing of George Floyd that regularly drew thousands to tens of thousands of demonstrators to a central part of the city for months.

Montauk6

(9,253 posts)
35. Next stop: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:50 AM
Yesterday

OH COME ONNNNN, there must be some murderous minorities there!

Jack Valentino

(3,385 posts)
38. Trump: "well, I don't really know whom I want to invade,
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 02:30 AM
Yesterday

and you know I change my mind every two minutes,
but I want to invade SOMEBODY!!!"





Javaman

(64,556 posts)
43. Portland doesn't take any crap.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:34 AM
Yesterday

I think he would have a real war on his hands if he tried this.

I think he just realized he fucked up and is now trying to lie is way out of it.

Karma13612

(4,826 posts)
44. And since he's
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:26 AM
Yesterday

DESPERATELY in need of Invading SOMEWHERE (ANYWHERE !!!), you’ll notice he has refocused on Chicago.

Wonder if his ego would have been sated had the US won the Ryder Cup. He needs the adrenaline rush of conquering and he’s finding no opportunities at the moment.

I shudder to think what is going to happen tomorrow at the MEGA MAGA MILITARY MEETING.

He’s going to force all 800 of them to swear an oath to him using one of his gold encrusted Trump Bibles. Get your Bible at the door on the way in to the gathering. 🤮🤮🤮

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,354 posts)
47. MaddowBlog-Trump's troop deployment to Portland, Oregon, faces immediate pushback in court
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 11:45 AM
22 hrs ago

The president isn’t sure he’s right about Portland descending into a lawless hellscape, but he’s seen some images while “watching things on television.”



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-troop-deployment-portland-oregon-faces-immediate-pushback-court-rcna234398

But as ridiculous as this was, much of the public was left to wonder which city might be next on the White House’s target list. We apparently didn’t have to wait too long to find out. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ‘provide all necessary Troops’ to Portland, Oregon. In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote that the troops would ‘protect War ravaged Portland’ and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that he claimed are ‘under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists.'


As part of the same online missive, the Republican said he’s “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.” What did that mean, exactly? I’m not altogether sure, though it sounded as if the American president was authorizing the use of military force against Americans on American soil.....

The official line from Trump is that the city is “war ravaged” and “under siege,” making it necessary to use troops to protect local ICE facilities. The official line, however, is obvious nonsense.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) 2025-09-27T19:09:07.734Z


....The NBC affiliate in Portland highlighted some highly relevant comments Trump made to NBC News:

Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him. ‘I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,’ Trump said. ‘But I said, “Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.” They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible.’


Oh. So Trump isn’t sure he’s right about Portland descending into a lawless hellscape, but he’s definitely seen some unsettling images while “watching things on television.”
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