The American people have taken a not-so-chill view of the president deploying the military to police the nation’s cities.
“If Donald Trump thinks that potentially sending in the National Guard into cities like Portland is a winning political issue, the polling says you’re wrong, Mr. President!” CNN data guru Harry Enten told viewers Monday.
Trump has railed against what he describes, without providing evidence, as threats from “domestic terrorists” in Oregon’s largest city.
On Saturday, he directed the Department of Defense, which he now calls the “Department of War,” to deploy 200 National Guard troops to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Portland from “ANTIFA,” using “Full Force, if necessary.”
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and state Attorney General Dan Rayfield h