CNN, “Trump says ‘it’s anarchy’ in Portland. Here’s why locals say that’s far from reality”

By Andy Rose

Most people in Portland, Oregon, don’t mind if you think they’re weird. In fact, it’s practically a trademark.

“We do have a lot of weirdos here,” Sarah Siano, who has lived in the city off and on since 2010, says with a smile.

But to hear President Donald Trump tell it, Portland is the latest city taken over by terrorists and in desperate need of federal salvation, making its weirdness something else entirely.

“It’s anarchy out there,” Trump said last week in the Oval Office, days before announcing the federalization of 200 members of the Oregon National Guard for a period of 60 days.