White House: Trump Doesn’t Want to Invoke Insurrection Act, but Wants to Help Cities

A man on a bike rides past a city truck on fire outside the Kenosha County Courthouse during riots following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 23, 2020. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via USA TODAY via Reuters

President Donald Trump prefers not to use the Insurrection Act in a bid to quell riots in cities such as Portland, but he wants to help cities get the situation under control, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Aug. 31.

“The president does not want to invoke the Insurrection Act, which has been used very sparingly,” McEnany told reporters in Washington.