Trump Threatens to Send Troops to City He Says He Saw Being Destroyed 'Last Night'-- But it Wasn't
Source: MEDIAite
Sep 6th, 2025, 1:23 pm
President Donald Trump said he has earmarked Portland, Oregon as the next city for National Guard deployment after watching video of its destruction on television. Except the video the president apparently saw was not from last night as he claimed, but from the George Floyd protests of 2020.
During an executive order signing at the Oval Office on Friday, at which Trump renamed the Department of Defense as the Department of War, a reporter asked if the president had decided which city he wanted to go into next. Trump previously deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. as part of a crime crackdown effort.
Yeah, I have, Trump answered. I have. Im not going to say it now, but, yeah, I have. Were going to go into another place and straighten it out.
Trump then went on to identify Portland, Oregon as the city the had in mind.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-threatens-to-send-troops-to-city-he-says-he-saw-being-destroyed-last-night-but-it-wasnt/
Complete mental meltdown. They used to call it "having a nervous breakdown".

The Roux Comes First
(1,838 posts)How long can such a brainless bit of protoplasm be kept alive?
It makes me worry about the possibility of cloning, as with sheep.
LiberalArkie
(18,928 posts)sop
(16,010 posts)That's what passes for "journalism" these days?
Bluetus
(1,538 posts)Regrettably there aren't any hurricanes threatening thousands.
Unfortunately, there aren't any major fires raging out of control at the moment.
I'm sorry to say there aren't any serial murderers on the loose, unless you count a President that ordered the random killing of people in a boat for reasons he can't manage to state.
We could cover the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but our corporate offices took that off the table.
We gave our best effort covering Taylor Swift's engagement, but after 36 hours of breathless coverage, there really isn't much to say.
Caitlin Clark just announced she is out for the season, so we can't even do our usual 24x7 "when will Caitlin play" thing.
So, we really need some camera-friendly news with lots of explosives, smoke, helicopters and stuff. You know, journalism. Portland, you say? We're on it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
muriel_volestrangler
(104,687 posts)so that when the USA regains its sanity, she never works in the media again. It's not their job to sanewash ordering the National Guard into American cities (especially as a "list" ), let alone inciting it.
On Friday, the residents of Jurupa , Ca. were told to evacuate due to a huge wildfire coming their way.
So there was a big story. They chose to ignore it!
Also, EPSTEIN!
Bluetus
(1,538 posts)They were just too busy covering more important news like Taylor Swift's personal life.
surfered
(9,191 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)fucking incompetent.
If the GOP wasn't completely fucking compromised, the 25th Amendment would have been invoked ages ago.
Bayard
(26,974 posts)And told him, That's what's happening in Portland.
ananda
(33,122 posts)Epstein
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,319 posts)Emile
(37,490 posts)HighFired49
(433 posts)The only thing that surprised me was that Oregon wasn't first on the fool's list of states to attack: Solidly Blue state with a lesbian governor who lives with her wife, both work to fix social problems, and both are Dems. Checks all of his trigger points.
Not sure why he chose Portland to threaten, rather than Salem (the capital), other than the fool was watching a five-year-old news story that lead him to this stupid threat. Or, maybe Oregon's lower population saved them from his immediate wrath. Whatever caused this, it needs to stop NOW!
SunSeeker
(56,638 posts)Stay the fuck out of Portland, Mango Mussolini!
BumRushDaShow
(160,061 posts)that some RW show may have been showing clips of Portland from back in 2020 when they had all those protests that were hijacked by Black Bloc and other extremists, and he thought that was going on "right now" and convinced his dementia brain that it was "current".
SunSeeker
(56,638 posts)And yes, it was Black Bloc fuckwits, not BLM.
BumRushDaShow
(160,061 posts)But since he watches Faux Snooze, they manipulate how they show the video images - just like what they did to what was going on in L.A., where Karen Bass kept telling people over and over that those immigration protests were only happening in a few square blocks of what is a HUGE sprawling city. But the media depicted it as if the whole city was up in flames.
twodogsbarking
(15,723 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,061 posts)but washed out to sea!
(rhyme intentional )
FakeNoose
(38,620 posts)