WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump raised the possibility of deploying National Guard troops to Portland during a news conference Friday afternoon, declaring that being in the city is "like living in hell," though he stopped short of directly confirming that a deployment is certain or imminent, appearing to instead imply that it could come after a deployment to another city.
The topic came up in the final minutes of an Oval Office gathering Friday afternoon in which Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War (the president does not have the authority to unilaterally make such a change, and the text of the order states that Department of War will be a "secondary title" for the agency).
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