Speaking from the White House Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump boasted about his administration’s success combatting crime in Washington, D.C., and in Memphis – and vowed to do the same in Portland.

He said, based on footage he saw from Saturday in Oregon’s largest city, “The whole place is burning to the ground … That’s like an insurrection more than it is anything else.”

“So we’ll take care of that one,” he said.

For the record, Portland was not burning to the ground on Saturday – or any other day in the modern era. Federal agents at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement complex in South Portland started a few small fires Saturday evening after shooting tear gas canisters at protesters. They sparked when they hit the ground but went out quickly.

Trump’s use of the

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