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."
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LetMyPeopleVote
(170,354 posts)cstanleytech
(27,953 posts)pnwmom
(110,101 posts)Jack Valentino
(3,385 posts)they're showing him videos from Ukraine....
pnwmom
(110,101 posts)Wiz Imp
(7,537 posts)orangecrush
(26,848 posts)erronis
(21,409 posts)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)that the POTUS should not be getting his understanding of what's happening from TV news.
RussBLib
(10,216 posts)...fuck yeah, he will have a wrong idea of what is going on.
https://russblib.blogspot.com
cilla4progress
(26,451 posts)trump is an empty sack of bile. He doesn't know and doesn't care. Miller is feeding him bullshit.
tanyev
(47,912 posts)
travelingthrulife
(3,365 posts)ananda
(33,396 posts)He's having a hard time finding a city warlike
enough.
Thunderbeast
(3,708 posts)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)JawJaw
(731 posts)...is too embarrassed to buy this shit!
Thunderbeast
(3,708 posts)elleng
(140,898 posts)of course he does.
usonian
(20,932 posts)
BAZOOKAS FIRING ALL OVER PORTLAND.

riversedge
(77,997 posts)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.
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LetMyPeopleVote
(170,354 posts)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
— Catherine (@docspkfree.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T21:48:09.835Z
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...
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/oregon-sues-trump-administration-national-guard-deployment/283-1ae97006-d7b3-418f-9b8e-979c7deef629
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.
nilram
(3,348 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,595 posts)mdbl
(7,449 posts)Justice matters.
(8,930 posts)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.
paleotn
(20,947 posts)
What a loon!
riversedge
(77,997 posts)#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.☮️ 🇺🇸 🌼
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What a pretty street . Err, I mean, terrifying. Too many intriguing shops to explore.
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llmart
(16,892 posts)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.
Justice matters.
(8,930 posts)A padded cell with 3 meals a day and a window.
Rocknation
(44,931 posts)or Portland CONNECTICUT or Portland INDIANA or Portland KENTUCKY or Portland MICHIGAN or Portland TENNESSEE or Portland TEXAS...if not POLAND in EUROPE.
Rocknation
Diraven
(1,614 posts)Who are the people telling him that there are fires all over the place?
Attilatheblond
(7,342 posts)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)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)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
aggiesal
(10,343 posts)Aussie105
(7,265 posts)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)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?
IbogaProject
(5,049 posts)2na fisherman
(103 posts)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.
Justice matters.
(8,930 posts)What for?...
Wiz Imp
(7,537 posts)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 didnt know that was continuing to go on, but Portland is unbelievable, whats 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)OH COME ONNNNN, there must be some murderous minorities there!
Jack Valentino
(3,385 posts)and you know I change my mind every two minutes,
but I want to invade SOMEBODY!!!"
Javaman
(64,556 posts)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)DESPERATELY in need of Invading SOMEWHERE (ANYWHERE !!!), youll 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 hes finding no opportunities at the moment.
I shudder to think what is going to happen tomorrow at the MEGA MAGA MILITARY MEETING.
Hes 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)The president isnt sure hes right about Portland descending into a lawless hellscape, but hes seen some images while watching things on television.
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-troop-deployment-portland-oregon-faces-immediate-pushback-court-rcna234398
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 hes authorizing Full Force, if necessary. What did that mean, exactly? Im 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 donât 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 whats 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 whats 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 isnt sure hes right about Portland descending into a lawless hellscape, but hes definitely seen some unsettling images while watching things on television.