Though President Donald Trump is famous for changing his mind on issues based on whom he last spoke to, his personality is far less variable. The hunger for authoritarian powers, the mixing of national and personal interests, the hostility to truth — all these qualities remain as evidently detrimental as they were on the first day of his first term as president. But a decade after he entered politics, there’s something new to fear about Trump: We can no longer be sure whether what’s informing the president is even real.
For several weeks, the president has insisted that Portland is “war-ravaged,” “on fire” and “bombed-out.” Obviously, this doesn’t match reality: There have been occasional clashes between protesters and counterprotesters around the city’s Immigration and Customs
Enforcement facility, but the demonstrations have been almost entirely peaceful and largely confined to one city block. Just before Trump ordered National Guard troops to the city, The New York Times reports, federal officers and police described the protests as “low energy” and “uneventful.”
agoraphobiai on
Great pic for the article. There’s nothing more intimidating than someone wearing a frog costume.
ClaretClarinets on
Do you think people on his staff could be making fake “news broadcast” clips and showing them *only* to Trump? Wasn’t fake Fox News broadcasts one of the ideas they were floating to get him to pay attention to daily briefings?
CockBrother on
OMG – MSNBC is even taking the regime at their word.
They are lying. It’s that simple. They are lying because they have a plan and the perception of “violence” helps grease the bearings that keep the plan moving.
Logical_Hare on
**Yes, we do.**
The reason is simple: every time Fox News mentions Portland, they show B-roll footage of the George Floyd protests/riots from some years back.
Dementia-addled Trump sees this B-roll on Fox News, and assumes it is showing current events.
Beforemath on
What’s frightening is that it’s taken this long for the mainstream media to actually call him out on it.
drtolmn69 on
He is not “_seeing_” – he, and/or his sycophants with their nasty agendas are **making it up.**
BigBangAssBanger_3D on
I think the issue here lies in how he thinks all of Portland is “on fire”. Not just one singular spot.
Though in the eyes of him and the jackasses he’s surrounding himself with, _everywhere_ is “on fire”. And once he’s done putting out the so-called fires in the US, whose to say they’ll try to “put them out” elsewhere. They’re currently trying it in Venezuela and the Middle East, and as a member of the US’s neighbor to the north, that has me massively worried the more unhinged they all get.
gdghhfdffrf on
and if you scroll down to the clickbait on this article, there’s crazy garbage pile of disinformation, mostly about people’s health. /s.
Sesame Street needs to do an episode just for adults on what fascism and theocracy are and how those ideologies are antithetical to US Democracy and the US Constitution.
ctguy54 on
He’s seeing it in his mind , you know, the pile of mush between his ears.
RipComfortable7989 on
It’s Fox News and AI.
MadAstrid on
Of course we do. His handlers are showing him video – some old, some from other states, some from other countries, and telling him it is Portland. “Is what I am seeing on TV not really happening?”
The fact is he is either too stupid or too senile to be able to understand what is happening. Perhaps both.
MisanthOptics on
He wants to create civil unrest so that he can invoke the Insurrection Act, implement martial law, and then ‘oversee” or preferably cancel future elections. FOX News wants to help him. Portland is merely one of numerous fires that he’s lit in hopes of igniting more chaos
yutfree on
He can lie about anything, and his followers will believe him. They don’t double-check him at all.
HellaTroi on
*”Indeed, if there were even a single video truly showing a city at war, you can be sure Fox News and other right-leaning outlets would be broadcasting the footage 24/7. But they’re not — and that absence is particularly noteworthy given how Trump characterizes his sources. “Unless they’re playing false tapes, this looks like World War II,” he said on Sept. 30. “It’s like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed-out cities and these bombed-out people,” he said at the White House roundtable on Wednesday.”*
He must be seeing the devastation in Gaza, and in his wee little mind, that’s Portland Oregon.
captcha_trampstamp on
Here’s the thing, making shit up requires no evidence
CommitteeOfOne on
He needs to tour “the front lines.”
Many-Lengthiness9779 on
Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and LA hell on earth according to the GOP.
cometflight on
He’s not. It’s one of his Big Lies, political propaganda technique.
always_going on
Dementia don
M00nch1ld3 on
Maybe he’s just lying, like he usually does.
b0b89 on
I think someone has a secret military grade LLM and they’re giving trump AI psychosis.
TreeLooksFamiliar22 on
The tell of useless journalism in 2025 is when they use adjectives like *frightening* or *terrifying* to describe something that is obviously a problem, but not imminently life threatening.
DoomSplitter on
They’re showing the president footage of the future war from Terminator.
gumercindo1959 on
Doens’t matter – they’ve controlled this narrative. My boomer mom, on the other side of the country of Portland was telling me yesterday about the disaster in this country, namely portland and california.
Literally_Laura on
Who’s to stop someone showing the dementia-inflicted POTUS AI videos of complete lies and then just sitting back and watching what happens?
areappreciated on
Guarantee Elon musk is fine running his x algorithm since we know he uses his official trump account(when he accidentally posted what was supposed to be a DM to bondi)
Lopsided_Grape9909 on
Its from the dumb fake live streams that are playing 24/7 on youtube. Its the only thing you can find on youtube these days when looking for live streams on protests. Its all re-runs but it says its live.
FauxReal on
Maybe he saw the faked photos from the Oregon GOP?
He see Portland on-fire from videos of South Africa and other videos his handlers including miller show him and tell him this is what’s happening they’ve use Jan 6th videos from his insurrection to show him how bad it is. Trump a clear and present danger to America, Americans,democracy and the world. Treasonous trump is more of a danger to America than any hostile nation or terrorist organization
RoseCityHooligan on
There are two options both are equally likely:
1. Fox news and various other fake sources being fed to him by advisors.
2. He’s not and he doesn’t care he just wants to punish liberal cities.
EndangeredDemocracy on
Fox News and doing whatever Vought and Miller say to do, the actual people running the country (into the ground).
nobodyisfreakinghome on
Stephen “Pee Wee German” Miller is showing him clips of long ago riots where the cities were burning. Isn’t it obvious?
spartynole4life on
Stephen miller keeps showing Trump zombie apocalypse movies..
Max123Dani on
Years back, when FOX was printing money, my MAGA parents called me and asked if I was OK. I said “Yes, why?”. Apparently for some reason Fox was running the riots from months before on a loop, and showing buildings burning, National Guard, riots, etc.. I had worked in the city that day. It was a beautiful day. Not even a siren or a police car all day. It really made me sad that my parents live in such fear. They were spending hundreds on survival food, gas masks, weapons, batteries, candles, and flashlights. Two different worlds. Either you pay attention to ALL news, and think for yourself, or, you listen to one station and hear propaganda that was making a lot of people a lot of money. I’m sure this is exactly what they (Steven Milker & associates) are doing to Trump, then they advise him.
TheGoonSquad612 on
Jfc. He’s lying, MSNBC.
I can’t believe in the year 2025 that anyone, let alone media, take him at face value.
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**From James Downie, MSNBC opinion editor:**
Though President Donald Trump is famous for changing his mind on issues based on whom he last spoke to, his personality is far less variable. The hunger for authoritarian powers, the mixing of national and personal interests, the hostility to truth — all these qualities remain as evidently detrimental as they were on the first day of his first term as president. But a decade after he entered politics, there’s something new to fear about Trump: We can no longer be sure whether what’s informing the president is even real.
For several weeks, the president has insisted that Portland is “war-ravaged,” “on fire” and “bombed-out.” Obviously, this doesn’t match reality: There have been occasional clashes between protesters and counterprotesters around the city’s Immigration and Customs
Enforcement facility, but the demonstrations have been almost entirely peaceful and largely confined to one city block. Just before Trump ordered National Guard troops to the city, The New York Times reports, federal officers and police described the protests as “low energy” and “uneventful.”
Great pic for the article. There’s nothing more intimidating than someone wearing a frog costume.
Do you think people on his staff could be making fake “news broadcast” clips and showing them *only* to Trump? Wasn’t fake Fox News broadcasts one of the ideas they were floating to get him to pay attention to daily briefings?
OMG – MSNBC is even taking the regime at their word.
They are lying. It’s that simple. They are lying because they have a plan and the perception of “violence” helps grease the bearings that keep the plan moving.
**Yes, we do.**
The reason is simple: every time Fox News mentions Portland, they show B-roll footage of the George Floyd protests/riots from some years back.
Dementia-addled Trump sees this B-roll on Fox News, and assumes it is showing current events.
What’s frightening is that it’s taken this long for the mainstream media to actually call him out on it.
He is not “_seeing_” – he, and/or his sycophants with their nasty agendas are **making it up.**
I think the issue here lies in how he thinks all of Portland is “on fire”. Not just one singular spot.
Though in the eyes of him and the jackasses he’s surrounding himself with, _everywhere_ is “on fire”. And once he’s done putting out the so-called fires in the US, whose to say they’ll try to “put them out” elsewhere. They’re currently trying it in Venezuela and the Middle East, and as a member of the US’s neighbor to the north, that has me massively worried the more unhinged they all get.
and if you scroll down to the clickbait on this article, there’s crazy garbage pile of disinformation, mostly about people’s health. /s.
[https://www.spj.org/spj-code-of-ethics/](https://www.spj.org/spj-code-of-ethics/)
Sesame Street needs to do an episode just for adults on what fascism and theocracy are and how those ideologies are antithetical to US Democracy and the US Constitution.
He’s seeing it in his mind , you know, the pile of mush between his ears.
It’s Fox News and AI.
Of course we do. His handlers are showing him video – some old, some from other states, some from other countries, and telling him it is Portland. “Is what I am seeing on TV not really happening?”
The fact is he is either too stupid or too senile to be able to understand what is happening. Perhaps both.
He wants to create civil unrest so that he can invoke the Insurrection Act, implement martial law, and then ‘oversee” or preferably cancel future elections. FOX News wants to help him. Portland is merely one of numerous fires that he’s lit in hopes of igniting more chaos
He can lie about anything, and his followers will believe him. They don’t double-check him at all.
*”Indeed, if there were even a single video truly showing a city at war, you can be sure Fox News and other right-leaning outlets would be broadcasting the footage 24/7. But they’re not — and that absence is particularly noteworthy given how Trump characterizes his sources. “Unless they’re playing false tapes, this looks like World War II,” he said on Sept. 30. “It’s like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed-out cities and these bombed-out people,” he said at the White House roundtable on Wednesday.”*
He must be seeing the devastation in Gaza, and in his wee little mind, that’s Portland Oregon.
Here’s the thing, making shit up requires no evidence
He needs to tour “the front lines.”
Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and LA hell on earth according to the GOP.
He’s not. It’s one of his Big Lies, political propaganda technique.
Dementia don
Maybe he’s just lying, like he usually does.
I think someone has a secret military grade LLM and they’re giving trump AI psychosis.
The tell of useless journalism in 2025 is when they use adjectives like *frightening* or *terrifying* to describe something that is obviously a problem, but not imminently life threatening.
They’re showing the president footage of the future war from Terminator.
Doens’t matter – they’ve controlled this narrative. My boomer mom, on the other side of the country of Portland was telling me yesterday about the disaster in this country, namely portland and california.
Who’s to stop someone showing the dementia-inflicted POTUS AI videos of complete lies and then just sitting back and watching what happens?
Guarantee Elon musk is fine running his x algorithm since we know he uses his official trump account(when he accidentally posted what was supposed to be a DM to bondi)
Its from the dumb fake live streams that are playing 24/7 on youtube. Its the only thing you can find on youtube these days when looking for live streams on protests. Its all re-runs but it says its live.
Maybe he saw the faked photos from the Oregon GOP?
[https://www.kptv.com/2025/10/07/oregon-republican-party-shares-misleading-images-south-america-post-about-portland-protest](https://www.kptv.com/2025/10/07/oregon-republican-party-shares-misleading-images-south-america-post-about-portland-protest)
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america)
He see Portland on-fire from videos of South Africa and other videos his handlers including miller show him and tell him this is what’s happening they’ve use Jan 6th videos from his insurrection to show him how bad it is. Trump a clear and present danger to America, Americans,democracy and the world. Treasonous trump is more of a danger to America than any hostile nation or terrorist organization
There are two options both are equally likely:
1. Fox news and various other fake sources being fed to him by advisors.
2. He’s not and he doesn’t care he just wants to punish liberal cities.
Fox News and doing whatever Vought and Miller say to do, the actual people running the country (into the ground).
Stephen “Pee Wee German” Miller is showing him clips of long ago riots where the cities were burning. Isn’t it obvious?
Stephen miller keeps showing Trump zombie apocalypse movies..
Years back, when FOX was printing money, my MAGA parents called me and asked if I was OK. I said “Yes, why?”. Apparently for some reason Fox was running the riots from months before on a loop, and showing buildings burning, National Guard, riots, etc.. I had worked in the city that day. It was a beautiful day. Not even a siren or a police car all day. It really made me sad that my parents live in such fear. They were spending hundreds on survival food, gas masks, weapons, batteries, candles, and flashlights. Two different worlds. Either you pay attention to ALL news, and think for yourself, or, you listen to one station and hear propaganda that was making a lot of people a lot of money. I’m sure this is exactly what they (Steven Milker & associates) are doing to Trump, then they advise him.
Jfc. He’s lying, MSNBC.
I can’t believe in the year 2025 that anyone, let alone media, take him at face value.