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Trump admin live updates: Gov. says 'no need' after Trump directs troops to Portland

Portland's mayor said he has not asked for an increase in federal officers.

Last Updated: September 28, 2025, 1:39 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced that he ordered federal troops to Portland, Oregon, due to what he alleged were threats from domestic terrorists.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, however, chastized the president and stressed that city leaders did not make any request to Washington.

Sep 25, 2025, 11:04 PM EDT

Trump announces new tariffs on cabinets, trucks, pharmaceuticals

President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on a range of goods -- including on some bathroom and kitchen furnishings, pharmaceuticals and large trucks -- in a series of social media posts on Thursday.

Trump said he will impose a 50% tariff on all cabinets, bathroom vanities and other associated products starting on Oct. 1.

"The reason for this is the large scale 'FLOODING' of these products into the United States by other outside Countries," Trump said in the post. "It is a very unfair practice, but we must protect, for National Security and other reasons, our Manufacturing process."

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on a deal that would divest TikTok's U.S. operations from ByteDance from its Chinese owner ByteDance, at the White House in Washington, September 25, 2025.
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Trump also said he would impose a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture.

In a separate post, Trump said he would enact a 25% tariff on all "Heavy (Big!) Trucks" made in other parts of the world. This is also set to go into effect on Oct. 1

Finally, Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product unless the company is actively building its manufacturing plant in the U.S.

It is not clear yet what medications will incur this new tariff. The U.S. already has a framework trade deal with the EU for a 15% tariff on most goods, where many branded drugs are manufactured.

The association that represents most large U.S. pharmaceutical companies said in a statement most of the latest medications prescribed in the U.S. are made in the U.S.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie, Zunaira Zaki and Eric Strauss

Sep 25, 2025, 5:30 PM EDT

Trump signs memorandum aiming to tackle far-left domestic terrorism

Trump signed a presidential memorandum directed to tackle what he claimed was a rise in "bad people" and "anarchists" from the left.

Details of the memorandum weren't immediately available, but officials said it would involve increased efforts from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of the Treasury.

Trump and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller singled out "Antifa" as one of the groups they were looking to combat.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, September 25, 2025 in Washington.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, September 25, 2025 in Washington as deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice President JD Vance listen.
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Antifa is not a group. It is a political philosophy or movement and the term comes from the longer “anti-fascist.” It’s used as a catchall for groups that oppose the concept of authoritarianism, neo-Nazism and white supremacy.

"We're looking at the funders of a lot of these groups," Trump said.

"When you see the signs and they're all beautiful signs made professionally, these are the protesters that make the sign in their basement late in the evening because they really believe that these are anarchists and agitators, professional anarchists and agitators, and they get hired by wealthy people," the president added without evidence.

Sep 25, 2025, 5:21 PM EDT

Trump signs memo directing Bondi, Pirro to seek death penalty in DC

Weeks after calling for the death penalty to be pursued for any murder that takes place in the nation's capital, President Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum directing Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to implement the death penalty in Washington "where the evidence and facts of the case indicate that the death penalty should be used."

Though it is unclear what authority Trump and the Justice Department have to seek the death penalty for murders in Washington that are not on federal land or otherwise considered federal crimes, as the city abolished the death penalty in 1981.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, September 25, 2025 in Washington.
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Sep 25, 2025, 5:30 PM EDT

Trump blames 'radical left rhetoric' for Dallas shooting

Trump blamed "radical left rhetoric" for the attack on an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday and also warned that "bad things happen when they play these games."

Investigators are still probing the shooting that left one ICE detainee dead but they said that the suspect was targeting ICE agents.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 25, 2025, in Washington.
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Trump was asked the question of who he blames, and the president was blunt about what he thinks is responsible: "Radical left rhetoric."

"The radical left is causing this problem, not the right, the radical left. And it's going to get worse," he claimed.

"I mean, bad things happen when they play these games. And, I'll give you a little clue, the right is a lot tougher than the left," the president added.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie and Michelle Stoddart

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