Trump Authorizes Troops To Use 'Full Force' against citizens
By: Jennifer Bowers Bahney (Mediaite)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Donald Trump posted his plan on Truth Social to send federal troops to protect "war ravaged" U.S cities and ICE facilities.
Trump wrote on Saturday, "At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists."
He added, "I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary."
The line about using "full force" had Trump critics questioning exactly what that meant.
Trump is directing his Sec of War to send troops, using full force, into a US city, to fight a siege he made up, being fought by a group that doesn't exist.
He's declaring war on Americans exercising their 1st amendment rights to speak out and protest his attacks on democracy. pic.twitter.com/hFsGJvW4Zd
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) September 27, 2025
Oh ya? Full force? Well this is certainly how you end up on trial… pic.twitter.com/Fz468ZBDAV
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) (@AdamKinzinger) September 27, 2025
Trump trying to distract from the latest Epstein files release has authorized regime ICE and department of war troops to "use full force" (i.e. harm or murder) US citizens "if necessary". pic.twitter.com/1Wf5Sk8CGu
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) September 27, 2025
Portland saw 17 homicides in the first half of 2025, a decline of 51%.
Yet Trump and the "secretary of war" are sending the US military into the city, authorizing American troops to use "Full Force" against American civilians.
What are we doing here, people? pic.twitter.com/WRbHtoIgpu
— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) September 27, 2025
Every day he flouts the law and stretches the boundaries of his authority.
An American president declaring war on American communities and citizens, illegally sending in U.S. military & authorizing them to apply "full force."
It is madness. It's un-American. And very dangerous! pic.twitter.com/cwpdlmYMtT
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 27, 2025
Trump's directive comes on the heels of a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, and other aggressive acts aimed at ICE agents.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller claimed the left was carrying out a "campaign of terrorism."
He posted to X on Friday, "We are witnessing domestic terrorist sedition against the federal government," and announced the dispatch of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
In addition Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she has begun deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities.
She wrote, "At my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities—and wherever ICE comes under siege—to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property, and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime. Pursuant to President Trump's recent executive action, I am also instructing the Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country to disrupt and investigate all entities and individuals engaged in acts of domestic terrorism, including the repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents."
Seattle Mayor Bruce Herrell (D) wrote that he has spoken to Portland Mayor Keith Wilson (D) to offer his support in the wake of Trump's announcement.
"Trump's threats against American cities are illegal, authoritarian, and an attempt to silence free speech and intimidate the American people," he wrote. "We stand united."
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At one point this will all stop being just idiotic words.
Oh ya? Full force? Well this is certainly how you end up on trial… pic.twitter.com/Fz468ZBDAV
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) (@AdamKinzinger) September 27, 2025
Unfortunately SCOTUS has given Trump immunity.
Provide all necessary troops to protect war ravaged Portland?
I'm wondering... will there be all those troops there , , , at the same time when their commanders are elsewhere having been callled to Hegseth's big meeting?
He needs a lethal private army on the ground ready for the full release of the Epstein files.
You realize there's a difference between full force and lethal force right?...
Authorities in Portland say there is no unrest.
What makes you think there is? Because Trump says so ?
The ICE facility in the Rose City has long been a target for local far-left and communist radicals. The location was targeted during the 2020 BLM and Antifa riots, continuing until Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021. With the Trump administration's renewed crackdown on illegal aliens, Antifa activists have doubled their efforts to attack the building and federal agents.
Remind me again what else is Rose City known for?...
Sorry, Greg. Most leftists will label this as "mostly peaceful" riots.
Even the residents that live around the ICE facility are sick and tired of the constant noise by ANTIFA every night, but are probably afraid to confront them because they will probably also get assaulted....or worse.
You don’t need to be concerned about what I do and don’t understand. You know who to be concerned about.
I absolutely agree. Nature eventually sorts all that out.
Jimmy Kimmel?...
I asked chatGPT to verify your statement
I was in portland 3 hours ago, no unrest at all..
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Mmmmm, according to copilot...
Strangely enough, now they are....
Your post in no way negates mine. If you disagree, state how and where.
What makes you think there isn't? Because CNN and MSNBC says there isn't?
You may have a point there.. IIRC when troops were send to one city they mainly were raking up leaves,,,toting garbage.
Hardly lethal!
On my news feeds I see a lot of stories about Trump sending troops to Portland to end the "siege", but I dont see anything about there actually being a siege.
It hasn't begun yet.
(The "seige" will be instigated by the troops a short time after they arrive),
It's really not hard to figure why. Two birds and all that...
Well, you know the olde saying:
Birds of a feather flock together!
Hilarious that the left has claimed that Trump is a threat to everything under the sun, not because of what he has done, but because of what he has said, but somehow, don't understand that attacking a federal ICE facility NIGHTLY is the true national security threat.
Portland has gone to shit because of far, far left wing policies and allowing ANTIFA to essentially run the city.
ChatGPT fact check on this:
"Trump's threats against American cities are illegal, authoritarian, and an attempt to silence free speech and intimidate the American people," he wrote. "We stand united."
The Federal government is in charge of immigration. The government has every right to protect Federal ICE Agents and Federal ICE facilities.
The hypocrisy of the left is so overwhelming it is hard to keep up with it.
For four years under the dementia "president and his DEI VP, states like Texas and Florida tried to curb the estimated 20 million illegals that swarmed into the country, but the Biden admin did everything to stop them, going as far as saying immigration is a federal matter, not states, and judge shopped to stop them. .
Now, because but Truuuuuuuuuuuuuump, all of a sudden, they do not want the federal government to do their jobs and have judge shopped rogue democratic activist judges to stop them because they have no other way.
Most Americans are sick and tired of the bullshit from the left and hope they do not gain control of the federal government for a long, long time, if ever.
They are a serious threat to the safety of this country.
Absurd exaggeration. When one has to stoop to such ridiculous levels of exaggeration rather than state facts and sound logic, one really needs to reevaluate their positions.
ChatGPT on the quoted nonsense:
To the person that responded to me.
I have you on ignore. I don't care what you have to stay.
Stop replying to me as I will not acknowledge your post.
Ignore does not take away the right of a poster to reply to what you post.
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You know who programed ChatGPT? You can forget about us buying that.
Nobody knows the real number, but we know the door was left open for 4 years.
This may help:
"The exact size of the surge, however, is likely even larger than government data shows because it relies on the once-in-a-decade US Census, which tends to get fewer replies from migrants worried about their legal status.
Mehlman, with FAIR, said the damage of such massive unchecked illegal migration is costing taxpayers more than $150 billion each year.
The CBO estimates that wage growth for Americans who did not attend college will be lower than it would have been in the coming years because of the recent surge.
The bulk of the surge in immigration can be attributed to the Biden administration’s easing of the strict policies put in place by President-elect Donald Trump, along with surging asylum approval rates that peaked at 52.6% in September 2023.
America’s foreign born population now makes up a record 15.2% of the US, surpassing the previous high of 14.8 percent in 1890 — just two years before Ellis Island opened to deal with the influx of immigrants, according to the CBO and US Census Bureau."
US immigration surge under Biden administration is biggest in US history
For a while it did.
If there is fair warning given, and the person on ignore continues to reply, that should be deemed taunting, or at least trolling.
Good grief Vic, do some research so that you at least understand the basics of AI tools such as ChatGPT.
I know it is unfortunate that we have AI to provide quick fact checks so of course you will try to discredit sources that show your beliefs are wrong.
20 million new illegals did not enter and domicile in the USA under Biden. There was an increase in the immigrant population in the USA but to exaggerate that into 20 million new is just stupid. We do not even have 20 million illegals in total.
Bring this up in meta rather than derail JR's article.
That is BULL SHIT.
Nobody knows how many waltzed into this country in those 4 years.
Intentionally.
You made a comment that raised eyebrows. Some might call it provocative.
As for JR's article, I'll say it again: the federal government has every right to protect its agents and its facilities.
The sky is the limit on that.
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Do you not know that the total number of domiciled illegals is less than 20 million??
How is it that you think 20 million new illegals are now living here?
Of course it does, when there is just cause.
Vic wasn’t the one who said there was 20 million.
Regardless, you keep picking at that number to avoid dealing with the fact that in October 2023 it was estimated we had the highest % of illegal immigrants in US history. Driven by the Biden border debacle causing a steep increase in illegal immigration into the US. Yes, more that the great “legal” migration in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
The actual total number of illegal immigrants is estimated at 14 million total. If anything that number is likely low since the undocumented are almost impossible to count.
Note the steep increase in the Biden years. Nearly a 40% increase in three years. An unprecedented increased rate of immigration.
Own it.
He is defending it!
I have not argued that illegals increased under Biden. Pay attention. I have argued that the number claimed is ridiculous.
You created a strawman argument. You pretend I argued that illegals did not increase under Biden. Instead of engaging in such a dishonest tactic, attempt to rebut the argument I actually did make.
Nope, I can safely say you likely wrote zero articles besmirching Bidens border debacle. Therefore you supported it by deliberate omission. Had it been Trump who did that your comments and articles slamming him would be copious indeed.
Keep trying to gaslight that it’s a strawman. Only the triggered are buying it.
I didn’t say you did
Take your own advice
Yeah typical bullshit. You either failed to carefully read what I wrote and just presumed OR you knew what I wrote and could not come up with a rebuttal so you created a strawman.
Either way, your post is dead wrong and now you are trying to mask that fact.
This is idiotic. Amazing that anyone would even think to write such nonsense.
See there you go. Something we can agree on. I think exactly the same of your comments. In spades.
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From what you just said, it sounds like Biden's abusing his power.
He should be impeached and removed from office immediately (if not sooner!)
Just the gal you want to bring home to meet mom and dad …..
Only in America do we have a President saying don't take Tylenol because it might give you autism but suggested injecting detergents to kill Covid...
Totally irrelevant to the point I made. As usual
I know. You don't like Trump.
We got that.
I don't recall that false dichotomy ever being raised before covid.
I am sure you remember these
And these
Do you approve of deploying the military into US cities when it is clear that none of them have emergency situations —not even remotely close— requiring such an extraordinary measure?
WTF?
Who are you alledging treats viruses with Communism?
(Or is that just a Fig Newton of your imagination???)
Whether I support or detest Trump is not the point, your response was irrelevant to the point it addressed
Yeah, Portland sure is peaceful these days. No need for any additional help there... (those fucking partisan idiots)
I would hope that most people here would realize that there's a big difference between "Allege; and actually "Prove as fact"
He did say he hates his opponents. This is the logical outcome.
Hold up! Somebody fired at an ICE facility in Dallas, TX! Why aren't the troops deploying there?
An excellent question!!!
Using immigrants was the excuse to target Americans in American cities just because Trump wants violence not peace. Trump isn't promoting peace here at home.
No Democrat ever elected would dream of going after red state cities by force using the military no matter what conspiracy nuts spew online.
We are a free nation, we need to remain a free nation, freedom is for all Americans, in all American states and all American cities and for all American political parties. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, etc, we are all Americans. Targeting one and where does it end? What happens if Libertarians speak out, what then?
Trump is proposing ending our freedom based on his personal revenge fantasies.
Is this what MAGA wants? Once they invade a city don't be fooled by what happens next, they won't leave.
So if Democrats are the target what happens if they are married to a Republican? Is the Republican spouse going to stand by while his Democrat wife is treated like ICE is doing to perceived immigrants? Many being snatched up turn out to be legal or actual American citizens.
This is where it is going and the military speeches given today confirming it are no joke.
Dems want healthcare and reasonable gun control disagreeing with Republicans.
Is this worth losing our freedoms sending American military into American cities over different political views?
The use of immigration as a real false flag only to switch focus onto fellow Americans who are Democrats.
Insanity, just an unforgivable unacceptable escalation that is not making America great again.
It appears so.
I don't know about MAGA, they are just the enabling faction, but it is relatively safe to say Trump wants full and unabridged control of the country, the military, and the economic levers of power.
I have been saying this for quite some time now and people seem to be clinging to their outmoded fantasies of the strength of the US government to control an actor of bad faith, much less multiple actors of bad faith. These actors are the President, his administration, the Congress, the SCotUS, and the billionaires who support this on-its-face takeover of the democratic process. Whether you choose to call the replacement oligarchy, kleptocracy, authoritarianism, or just good old-fashioned fascism, the hollowing out that has already occurred in both the removal of guardrails from the many institutions, the creation of doubt by calling real news fake news, and the continual, incessant propaganda that emanates from the MAGA's dear leader and his many mouthpieces will create the style of government that most people are still saying, "Oh. That cannot happen here. We're America."
Guess what? It can happen hear and it is happening here. Get off your collective asses and Join the Resistance.