However, Portland’s NBC News affiliate KGW reported 90 minutes after Trump’s social media post that no members of the guard were yet in place around the Ice field office where dozens of protesters have demonstrated against immigration sweeps since June. The deployment is expected to be made up of troops who have been either trained as military police or certified by the state’s police standards agency. Rayfield also argued the president exceeded his authority by taking federal control of the guard away from the state’s governor. In remarks to senior military officers in Virginia on Tuesday, Trump reiterated his false claim that Portland “looks like a war zone”, and recounted a phone call with the state’s governor over the weekend. “‘Well, unless they’re playing false tapes, this look[s] like World War 2,’” the president said he told the governor.