DONALD Trump has ordered US troops be sent to a city "under siege", despite local leaders saying the community is "safe and calm".

The Don said soldiers would be sent to "war-ravaged" Portland in Oregon , to protect the Immigration and Customs Enforcement centres, saying they were under attack from Antifa.

"At the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, I am directing the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege," he said in a social media post on Saturday.

"I am also authorising Full Force, if necessary."

Describing Antifa - short for Anti-Fascist - as "domestic terrorists", the White House did not define what Trump meant by "full force".

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