Of the top 10 most-read news articles on OregonLive in 2025, seven of them explored that story, and many of those were written by one reporter: Maxine Bernstein. By the close of the year, that story topic had mainly fizzled out. But here are those Trump-in-Portland stories and where they landed on the top 10.

Most stories keep going even after we set down our microphones and the music fades up. That's why, at the end of each year, we look back and we take stock. We call this tradition "The Rest of the Story.