On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that he has authorized the deployment of “all necessary armed forces” to the city of Portland in the northwest of the country.
In a statement on his Truth Social platform, Trump noted, “At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy all required military forces to protect Portland, which has been ravaged by violence, as well as to safeguard the facilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that are under threat from Antifa and other local terrorists.”