People gather along a waterfront park in Portland, Oregon, during a "No Kings" protest on Saturday. Jenny Kane/AP

The president keeps claiming a major American city is burning down. Even though that is not even close to true.

President Donald Trump told reporters  at the White House on Tuesday: “I looked at Portland over the weekend. The place is burning down, just burning down.” Trump noted that an appeals court on Monday overturned one of the two rulings  that have temporarily blocked his attempt to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, then added: “You look at a place like Portland, it’s just — it’s ridiculous, when they say that there’s no problem. The place is — it was on fire over the weekend.”

But Portland was nothing remotely resembling “burning down” over the

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