Amid protests of federal troops in Portland, Oregon, in October 2025, rumors circulated online that Mike Johnson, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, claimed "the most threatening thing" he'd seen in the city were "the naked bicyclers."

A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday extended temporary restraining orders that block President Donald Trump's administration from deploying any National Guard troops to police Portland as part of his campaign to dispatch military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led cities.