Trump said Wednesday the National Guard “is now in place” and invoked “antifa and radical left anarchists” who he claimed are “viciously attacking our Federal Law Enforcement Officers.” (The White House has continually pointed to Portland – home to one of the oldest coalitions in the United States to carry the Antifa moniker – as it has sought to target left-wing groups.) “We’re only going in because, as American Patriots, we have no choice,” Trump added in a subsequent Truth Social post on Wednesday, the day after suggesting at a military event in Quantico, Virginia, that US cities could be used as a “training ground” for the nation’s military. The list of places he’s sending or has plans to send troops already includes Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago and Memphis. Though Trump has so far abstained from using troops in Chicago to target crime (they’ve so far sent federal agents to ramp up deportations of undocumented immigrations), that could change, as protesters clashed with law enforcement at an ICE facility in a suburb about 10 miles to its west over the weekend.