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Portland

POTUS exited the residence at 11 am October 5, 2025. He took questions on Israel-Gaza deal, the shutdown, Portland and the drug war. "Asked if he'll follow the judge's order in Portland: "We're going to look at that. It was amazing. Portland is burning to the ground. It's insurrectionist all over the place. It's Antifa. And yet, the politicians who are petrified, look, the politicians are afraid for their lives. That's the only reason that they say like this, nothing happening, and you've seen it, the place is burning down, and they pretend like there's nothing happening. So we'll take a look at the order. We haven't seen the order today....

"I wasn't served well if they put judges like that. I wasn't served well by the people that picked judges. I can tell you things like that are just too bad. I appointed the judge and he goes like that, so I wasn't served well. Obviously, I don't know the judge, but if he made that kind of a decision. Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists. All you have to do is look at that. Look at the television. Turn on your television, burning to the ground, the governor, the mayor, the politicians are petrified for their lives of the words the government. That judge ought to be ashamed of himself."

Eksewere, Trump said "Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists. All you have to do is look at that."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox "One of the things I've been dealing with all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies that are elected into political office who won't make a decision to keep their citizens safe." State and local leaders — but only a few protesters — greeted Noem as she visited Portland and the ICE office that had been the site of recurring protests since June.

"I was in Portland yesterday and had the chance to visit with the governor of Oregon and also the mayor there in town and they are absolutely covering up the terrorism that is hitting their streets. ... These leaders in these local cities along with Pritzker and Johnson ignore what's going on or sir they're helping Antifa cover it up. We have arrested dozens of individuals that are Antifa members or affiliated with them and I want to thank our attorney general for prosecuting them and making sure they never see the light of day again. They have been so bold in making sure we're bringing those individuals to justice.

"One of the individuals we arrested recently in Portland was the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa. And we are hoping that as we go after her, interview her, and prosecute her, we will get more and more information about the network and how we can root them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society. I want to thank the journalists here today for telling their stories and for being able and willing to go to the streets and to cover what's happening here in America. Many times the legacy media has looked the other way, refused to tell the stories.

After meeting with the Portland mayor, Noem said that if the mayor did not meet some of her demands for more security at the ICE facility “we were going to send four times the amount of federal officers” to the city. On Jesse Watters Live 07 October 2025, she said " this mayor is going to wait until somebody gets violently hurt or killed,” she said. “He’s going to have blood on his hands because he sat around and thought too long, because he was too scared of the political ramifications of making a big decision to keep his city safe. Antifa-affiliated individuals are outside this building right now shouting death to my law enforcement officers while the mayor drives home and probably has a fancy dinner tonight and goes to sleep in his cushy bed. It’s just not acceptable."

During a visit 08 October 2025 to what the Trump administration deems a “war” ridden Portland, Noem, who has been dubbed as “ICE Barbie” over her lavish cosplay photo ops, toured an ICE facility along MAGA influencer, who continuously praised her over her crackdown on immigration. She met with local law enforcement officials, including Portland Police Chief Bob Day, Oregon State Police Superintendent Casey Codding and Multnomah County Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell. As he praised Noem, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson posted a video on social media from the roof of the facility, saying they were staring down what he called an “army of antifa.” Despite his claims, only two small groups of protesters could be seen in the video, including a man in a chicken costume, an increasing trend among protesters to signal the viral acronym TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out).

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said 08 October 2025 “This is not a factual need on the ground in Oregon, to deploy any of the military in the National Guard, whether they’re from California or Texas or Oregon. This is a fundamental issue for our democracy — about what the control and the authority of the president is, and what the court says it is. The rule of law has to hold. ... This is a very unusual situation. I don’t think we’ve seen this anytime in our nation’s history, where federal agents are disregarding local law and are attacking people on the streets who are lawfully protesting. … What we’re seeing from the Trump administration is an abuse of power in how they’re dealing with lawful protests outside their facilities.... ."

Portlandia was a sketch comedy series that aired on IFC from 2011 to 2018, created by and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. The show was a gentle yet incisive satire of Portland, Oregon's progressive, artisanal, and aggressively quirky culture. What made Portlandia special was its affectionate tone - it never felt mean-spirited despite skewering everything from feminist bookstore owners to obsessive picklers to people who needed to know the entire provenance of their chicken dinner. The show understood that the hipster culture it was mocking was also genuinely trying to make the world better, even if the execution was sometimes absurd.

The chemistry between Armisen and Brownstein was the show's secret weapon. Armisen, a former Saturday Night Live cast member, brought his gift for physical comedy and character work, while Brownstein - best known as the guitarist for the riot grrrl band Sleater-Kinney - proved to be a revelation as a comedic performer. Together they created dozens of recurring characters that became cultural touchstones: the overly cautious diners obsessed with their chicken's life story, the militant feminist bookstore owners Toni and Candace, the tech-averse record store employees, and perhaps most memorably, the couple who believed "the dream of the 1990s is alive in Portland."

What elevated Portlandia beyond simple sketch comedy was its understanding that Portland's eccentricities were symptoms of larger cultural shifts. The show captured a particular moment in American culture when urban millennials were embracing localism, artisanal production, and alternative lifestyles - sometimes to comical extremes. A sketch about people needing to "put a bird on it" to make something artistic wasn't just about Portland; it was about the mass production of authenticity itself. The show's genius was recognizing that earnestness and absurdity could coexist, and that the people trying hardest to be different often ended up the most alike. By its final season, Portlandia had become less a regional satire and more a mirror held up to a certain type of educated, progressive, and deeply self-serious American culture that existed far beyond Portland's city limits.