Article 70GMH Nature, books and naked bike rides: Portlanders push back on Trump claims that city is ‘like living in hell’

Nature, books and naked bike rides: Portlanders push back on Trump claims that city is ‘like living in hell’

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Robert Mackey in Portland and Dani Anguiano
from US news | The Guardian on (#70GMH)

On the ground in the Oregon city, with rich fall colors and leafy hiking trails, things look different than on Trump's TV

In Portland, Oregon, a city Donald Trump claims to have seen burning down to the ground" on his television, residents are pushing back on the US president's false depiction of their tranquil city as a war zone.

Trump, who refuses to accept firsthand accounts from Oregon's governor and the Portland mayor that the widespread unrest he thinks he's seen on television is not actually happening, has ordered the military in to the Pacific north-west city.

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