Speaking from the White House Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump boasted about his administration’s success combatting crime in Washington, D.C., and in Memphis – and vowed to do the same in Portland.

He said, based on footage he saw from Saturday in Oregon’s largest city, “The whole place is burning to the ground … That’s like an insurrection more than it is anything else.”

“So we’ll take care of that one,” he said.

For the record, Portland was not burning to the ground on Saturday – or any other day in the modern era. Federal agents at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement complex in South Portland started a few small fires Saturday evening after shooting tear gas canisters at protesters. They sparked when they hit the ground but went out quickly.

Trump’s use of the term insurrection suggests he is aware that the rarely invoked Insurrection Act of 1807 gives the president unchecked power to call out the military on U.S. civilians in case of a true insurrection, which the law does not define.