Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992. The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. Mark Elias/AP

President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word “insurrection” more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland .

Trump also told reporters he could potentially invoke the Insurrection Act to send US troops to cities.

“I really think that’s really criminal insurrection,” he said in the White House of protests in Portland, before promising to make the city safe.

His aide Stephen Miller referred to a judge’s order barring, for now, the deployment of National Guard troops in Portland over the objections of local officials as “legal insurrection.

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