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swag

(26,565 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:45 PM 16 hrs ago

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 16 hrs ago OP
This distraction is NOT working LetMyPeopleVote 16 hrs ago #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 12 hrs ago #18
I bet someone fed him old George Floyd protest videos. nt pnwmom 16 hrs ago #2
YUP. You beat me to it--- or maybe Jack Valentino 11 hrs ago #22
lol pnwmom 10 hrs ago #24
That's exactly what happened Wiz Imp 8 hrs ago #31
Yup, Miller orangecrush 37 min ago #45
Donny Dumb Shit: "Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" erronis 16 hrs ago #3
Not To Mention RobinA 15 hrs ago #11
if he only watches Fox or Newsman RussBLib 11 hrs ago #21
Stephen Miller cilla4progress 16 hrs ago #4
If only there were a way for the President of the United States to find out what's really happening! tanyev 16 hrs ago #5
Oh Please! Maybe you should actually confirm something before lying about it. travelingthrulife 16 hrs ago #6
ROFL... somebody showed him the optics... ananda 16 hrs ago #7
Local news broadcast a story from the ICE facility Thunderbeast 16 hrs ago #8
ha ha riversedge 15 hrs ago #12
Even maga... JawJaw 9 hrs ago #28
'seems to back off Portland military plan' elleng 15 hrs ago #9
But he watched it LIVE on the Miller channel. usonian 15 hrs ago #10
So Portland gets armored "Rescue" tanks rolling down the street for... a farmers' market? 😂 Nothing screams "protecting d riversedge 15 hrs ago #13
Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful' LetMyPeopleVote 14 hrs ago #14
This is the reason, imo. nilram 7 hrs ago #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 14 hrs ago #15
He won't. They lie for him all the time. mdbl 10 hrs ago #23
He doesn't care. It's not his money, whether judgement or deployment. Justice matters. 6 hrs ago #40
TACO, TACO man!!!! He's got to be the TACO man!! paleotn 13 hrs ago #16
(National Guard has no litter to pick up in Portland.) riversedge 13 hrs ago #17
What a maroon! llmart 11 hrs ago #19
Yep. A real straightjacket case. Justice matters. 6 hrs ago #41
Perhaps Trump has Portland OREGON confused with Portland MAINE Rocknation 11 hrs ago #20
Name names Diraven 10 hrs ago #25
The people who want him to send in military/martial law Attilatheblond 7 hrs ago #37
or video from Ukraine or Gaza, and claiming that is Portland Oregon---- Jack Valentino 6 hrs ago #39
OR, perhaps popsdenver 10 hrs ago #26
Idiocracy is a Documentary. n/t aggiesal 10 hrs ago #27
I watched that film several times, and thought . . . Aussie105 8 hrs ago #30
Q: What do you get when . . . Aussie105 8 hrs ago #29
T.A.C.O !! IbogaProject 8 hrs ago #32
Dangerously Confused 2na fisherman 8 hrs ago #33
Putin groomed him. Justice matters. 6 hrs ago #42
Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland Wiz Imp 8 hrs ago #34
Next stop: Grand Forks, North Dakota Montauk6 8 hrs ago #35
Trump: "well, I don't really know whom I want to invade, Jack Valentino 6 hrs ago #38
Portland doesn't take any crap. Javaman 1 hr ago #43
And since he's Karma13612 48 min ago #44

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
12 hrs ago

erronis

(21,400 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
16 hrs ago

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
15 hrs ago

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

cilla4progress

(26,449 posts)
4. Stephen Miller
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:57 PM
16 hrs ago

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

tanyev

(47,898 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
16 hrs ago

ananda

(33,344 posts)
7. ROFL... somebody showed him the optics...
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 05:06 PM
16 hrs ago

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

Thunderbeast

(3,707 posts)
8. Local news broadcast a story from the ICE facility
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 05:11 PM
16 hrs ago

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

(77,984 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
15 hrs ago

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

(170,297 posts)
14. Oregon sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: 'It is unlawful'
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 06:20 PM
14 hrs ago

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

(1,592 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
14 hrs ago

Justice matters.

(8,926 posts)
40. He doesn't care. It's not his money, whether judgement or deployment.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 02:55 AM
6 hrs ago

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

(77,984 posts)
17. (National Guard has no litter to pick up in Portland.)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:53 PM
13 hrs ago


#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

(16,881 posts)
19. What a maroon!
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:36 PM
11 hrs ago

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
11 hrs ago

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

(7,336 posts)
37. The people who want him to send in military/martial law
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 01:38 AM
7 hrs ago

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
6 hrs ago

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

(533 posts)
26. OR, perhaps
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:33 PM
10 hrs ago

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

(7,259 posts)
30. I watched that film several times, and thought . . .
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:30 AM
8 hrs ago

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

(7,259 posts)
29. Q: What do you get when . . .
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:26 AM
8 hrs ago

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

(101 posts)
33. Dangerously Confused
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:36 AM
8 hrs ago

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

(7,519 posts)
34. Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:44 AM
8 hrs ago
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

(9,252 posts)
35. Next stop: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:50 AM
8 hrs ago

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
6 hrs ago

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





Javaman

(64,547 posts)
43. Portland doesn't take any crap.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:34 AM
1 hr ago

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

(4,823 posts)
44. And since he's
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:26 AM
48 min ago

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. 🤮🤮🤮

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