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BREAKING: Trump Selects Next ‘War Ravaged’ City for Troop Deployment

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell •   September 27, 2025

President Donald Trump has ordered troops to protect Portland, Oregon, and any Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities threatened by Antifa.

“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 wrote on TruthSocial Saturday.
I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

This comes after a shooting at a Dallas ICE detention center on Wednesday left multiple people injured and one victim dead.  

The Department of War will provide information and updates as they become available, according to Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell.

“We stand ready to mobilize U.S. military personnel in support of DHS operations in Portland at the President’s direction,” Parnell said in a statement shared with The Daily Signal.

It is not immediately clear when troops will be deployed.

On Thursday, Trump singled out Portland as a left-wing violence hub.

“Take a look at Portland,” he told the press from the Oval Office. “Sometimes these are wild, these are crazy people, and they’re trying to burn down buildings, including federal buildings. And on my list of things that I want to do before we finish up with the cities, because I think we’re going to whip the cities back into shape.”

He said the administration would do a “pretty big number of those people in Portland.”

“They’re professional agitators and anarchists,” Trump said. “They’re actually anarchists.”

Trump signed an executive order designated Antifa as a domestic terror organization on Sept. 22. Trump signed a memorandum Thursday directing an “all-of-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism” and Antifa.

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