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

Gov. Tina Kotek joined Portland officials Saturday afternoon to push back against Trump’s order to send federal troops to the city.

“There is no need for military troops in our city,” she said at the news conference adding that any federal takeover was a “threat to communities across Oregon.”

She warned Oregon residents “not to take the bait.”

“Let’s not respond to what the President is trying to do. We have to raise our voices, absolutely, peacefully, to the things that we believe in. I also want to say that property damage, or violence of any kind, will get us nowhere and will not be tolerated,” she said.

Portland Chief of Police Bob Day told reporters that despite the president’s claims, he has not seen an uptick in violent unrest.

“We have had literally tens upon thousands of Portlanders walking the streets in our parks, expressing their First Amendment right, their opinion, their dissidence, with what they’re seeing happening on a federal or even a local level, and yet we have not had arrests,” he said.

“We have not had vandalism, we have not had the challenges that we have faced in years past,” he added.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson called the potential troop deployment a “show of force.”

“After a big show everyone goes home and that’s what I want to happen here today,” he said.

-ABC News’ Jeffrey Cook