Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.

Trump made the announcement on social media, using references to antifascists and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). He claimed that the deployment was necessary “to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our (immigration and customs enforcement) Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists”.

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    Well, we ARE war ravaged here, and the place is total hell. I mean, I had to wait 15 in line at the ice cream shop, that’s inhuman.

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      I’m watching the press conference right now and it just looks horrid! People driving by in their fancy boats and riding bicycles along the waterfront. I mean people are so scared they are walking with their dogs! The horrors.