Did he even give a reason? There are no active protests.
“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump said Saturday in a post on Truth Social. “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
I guess because Portland is “War ravaged,” whatever that means and because he says so is as close as we’re getting to reason.
Speaking of “whatever that means,”
authorizing Full Force
At the risk of stating the obvious, we are dealing with an unbelievably stupid person here (but this actually makes him more dangerous)
“siege” this fucker; when ICE is calling door dash into their fucking offices I think “siege” is hardly appropriate.
In the constructed reality that right wing media has built, Portland is an ongoing warzone.
It’s fairly effective in the outskirts of Portland and Gresham. I had someone ask how Portland was a few weeks ago. They were convinced it was experiencing raging riots for the past 90 days. Their source: “news from the East coast”. Not sure what that means, but yeah.
Right wing media proves that the harm caused by chatbots is not unique. It’s just tech companies made the problem way worse.
they’ve been protesting at the Ice facility there for a while… also there’s lot’s of homeless people to put in concentration camps
Or like that Fox News host said, just kill em.
No I’m not actual advocating for this.
good ol, still-on-fox, still-on-apple-podcasts, brian kilmeade….
i feel like it wouldn’t be too hard to get him cancelled on apple podcasts, at least…I feel like watching him hit the floor like Kirk would be very satisfying, and the best part is he is far less relevant. Though I am not advocating murder, I’m more of a maim and ensure they have a long miserable life where they wish for death every waking moment.
Yeah it’s kind of wild that there is barely a whisper of the 24/7 protests and on tiktok they have to refer to them as music festivals to avoid being censored.
ICE operates out of a building south of downtown and there have been a handful of protestors camping out and protesting in front of the building 24/7 since June. The protestors have been for the most part peaceful, the ICE agents however have been violent, beating protestors, aiming guns at them, shooting them with pepper balls and gas cannisters, and deploying a variety of unknown chemical gasses.
The grade school next door to the ICE building had to move because of concerns over exposing the kids to those chemicals. The residents of the apartment buildings across the street aren’t so lucky. Portland’s own police department recently testified under oath that ICE has been instigating violence over the protestors.
There’s a movement to evict ICE from the building. Just the other day, ICE was found to have committed over 20 violations of the agreement they had struck with the city in order to operate from that location this year alone. I wouldn’t be surprised if the escalation from Trump is in response to that.
Source: I live in Portland and have been following the situation closely.
Oregon allows public nudity specifically for protests.
I know it will take a lot of bravery, but I honestly believe they should organize full nude, and completely calm protests. The optics of sending the military against protestors who are so little of a threat that they are actually completely nude is powerful.
The fa in ‘antifa’ stands for fabric.
Get Netflix to sponsor the protest by selling it as a live action remake of Kill la Kill?
This is a version of “dicks out for Harambe” that I did not anticipate.
Careful, the ICE agents might become jealous comparing other’s dicks to their Grinder date’s and start shooting
Like the Doukhabours in Canada
So they have sent troops to LA, Portland, Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, Memphis and Baltimore. Trump is going to claim massive fraud for the midterms in these areas due to their arrest numbers.
What? That wouldn’t make any sense.
All this is is a huge, mind bogglingly dumb waste of taxpayers’ money. Your money. The guardmen’s money. Everyone’s.
America just wasting everything we built because old rich men are big mad about whatever they’re projecting about lately.
The sooner we usher these people into the nursing home for pudding and put actual adults back in charge, the better.
ice is in chicago and he keep threatening the use of national guard.
Someone warn the crustpunks.
Well, we know there are no birders in that lot since nobody told him they migrate south in the fall lol.
What’s up with the censoring of words there?
I think they’re comically changing alleged to aged.
And “no fucking” to “no king”
Probably made for Facebook and their increasing pearl-clutching auto censor.
No, they censored the parts to shift the meaning and make the text more fitting.
Trump will do this in all blue states most likely.
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President Donald Trump ordered military troops to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, and said he is authorizing the use of “full force” if necessary.
“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump said Saturday in a post on Truth Social. “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
The Trump administration has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Memphis. The post wasn’t specific about whether he was referring to Guard troops or regular military.
Neither the White House nor the Pentagon immediately responded to requests for comment.
Ongoing protests outside Portland’s federal ICE detention facility have escalated tensions between local officials, federal authorities, and demonstrators. Oregon lawmakers have criticized what they describe as mistreatment of detainees, while the city has challenged the facility with a land-use violation. DHS has deployed federal agents to Portland in response.
The protests, led in part by antifascist activists, have at times turned violent. Federal officials have condemned the actions, while Antifa-linked groups continue to call for more demonstrations, including solidarity rallies in nearby cities.
On Monday, the Trump administration designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, although the order holds no force of law because terrorist designations apply only to foreign-based actors and Antifa is an ideology whose adherents stage protests but under no organization or leader.
Outside of anti-ICE protests, a violent-crime report by the Major Cities Chiefs Association for the first half of 2025 showed a 50% drop in homicides in Oregon’s largest city, according to KATU, the ABC affiliate in Portland. The city has also seen a decline in reported rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies, the report said.
Read More: Hate Groups Seize on Trump’s Antifa Order With Online Threats
— With assistance from Wendy Benjaminson and Lauren Dezenski
(Updates with details and context beginning in fourth paragraph.)
Guess I lost a bet, I thought Denver would be next. Are we not important enough?
Who?
The snow and weed city
Narnia?
Do they make year gas grenades, but with weed resin? Asking for a mile-high city
The fucking Freikorps in 2025 USA. No surprises with the Trump regime.
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President Donald Trump ordered military troops to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, and said he is authorizing the use of “full force” if necessary.
“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump said Saturday in a post on Truth Social. “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
The Trump administration has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Memphis. The post wasn’t specific about whether he was referring to Guard troops or regular military.
Neither the White House nor the Pentagon immediately responded to requests for comment.
Ongoing protests outside Portland’s federal ICE detention facility have escalated tensions between local officials, federal authorities, and demonstrators. Oregon lawmakers have criticized what they describe as mistreatment of detainees, while the city has challenged the facility with a land-use violation. DHS has deployed federal agents to Portland in response.
The protests, led in part by antifascist activists, have at times turned violent. Federal officials have condemned the actions, while Antifa-linked groups continue to call for more demonstrations, including solidarity rallies in nearby cities.
On Monday, the Trump administration designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, although the order holds no force of law because terrorist designations apply only to foreign-based actors and Antifa is an ideology whose adherents stage protests but under no organization or leader.
Outside of anti-ICE protests, a violent-crime report by the Major Cities Chiefs Association for the first half of 2025 showed a 50% drop in homicides in Oregon’s largest city, according to KATU, the ABC affiliate in Portland. The city has also seen a decline in reported rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies, the report said.
Read More: Hate Groups Seize on Trump’s Antifa Order With Online Threats
— With assistance from Wendy Benjaminson and Lauren Dezenski
(Updates with details and context beginning in fourth paragraph.)
