Trump Declares a Crime Emergency in Washington D.C.
“In addition, I’m deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they are going to be allowed to do their jobs properly.”
President Donald Trump has officially declared a crime emergency in Washington, DC.
Something is out of control, but we are going to put it in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border.
I’m announcing an action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor—and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we are going to take our capital back. We are taking it back.
Under the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act—you know what that is—placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you will be meeting the people who will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they are tough, and they know what’s happening. They’ve done it before.
In addition, I’m deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they are going to be allowed to do their jobs properly.
Think of the people who are victims of it. You reporters—I understand a lot of you tend to be liberal—but you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed. You all know people who that happens to, so you can say anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets. You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe, and go into a store to buy a newspaper or to buy something. And you don’t have that now.
In Washington today, the murder rate is higher than that of Colombia, Mexico City, several other places that you hear about. It’s one of the worst places on earth—this is much higher. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in ’23 reached the highest rate probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don’t know what that means because it just goes back 25 years—could be worse.
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to let it happen anymore. We are not going to take it.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces he will be exerting his powers to take FULL CONTROL of the DC Police Department from the city government, and is deploying the National Guard
WE'RE TAKING OUR CAPITAL BACK! 🇺🇸
"Our capital city has been overtaken by vioIent gangs and blood… pic.twitter.com/uxnwOJjeC4
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 11, 2025
Trump put Attorney General Pam Bondi in command of the Metropolitan Police Department. Terry Cole, the head of the DEA, will become the interim DC police commissioner.
Trump pointed out that many leaders come to DC. As America regains its prominence in the world, the capital needs to look fantastic and be safe:
It’s a very, very strong reflection of our country, and when they see a bad city, you know, my father always used to tell me, I had a wonderful father, very smart. And he used to say, “Son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door. Don’t go in, because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also.” Same thing with the Capitol. If our capitol is dirty, our whole country is dirty.
.@POTUS: "It's a very strong reflection of our country… If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty." pic.twitter.com/zefx46rp31
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 11, 2025
Trump isn’t wrong. I wish I could find a video I saw months ago. It showed Trump walking at Mar-a-Lago with a lawn person discussing the grass growing between the stones.
There is a reason why Trump is successful. He pays attention to every detail, no matter how small. He knows cleanliness is one of the many things people look at before they even entertain the thought of setting foot in an establishment.
FOUND IT!
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U.S. Attorney General for DC Jeanine Pirro explained how DC leadership protects criminals:
Here’s the problem. Assuming that they’re 17 years, older than 17 years old, I can’t get the case if they’re under 18 years of age. I can only get the case if it’s murder, rob[bery] one, rape, even if they shoot a gun, but don’t kill you, I can’t get it.
So the law has to be changed, as the President said, cashless bail, that has to be changed. All right, then even assuming I get the case, I get jurisdiction, I get a conviction, the DC Council has given the judges the ability to give probation on shootings. And so then it’s up to them all of these things, the Youth Rehabilitation, Incarceration Reduction Act, and now they want to seal records.
So if we work hard, we get a conviction, they want to wipe it out. So that needs all to be changed.
.@USAttyPirro on how criminals are protected by Washington, D.C. leadership: "If they're under 18 years of age, I can only get the case if it's murder… rape. Even if they shoot a gun but don't kill you, I can't get it. So, the law has to be changed." pic.twitter.com/bU4PCsY8Pm
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 11, 2025
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President Donald Trump will hold a press conference today at 10 AM ET to announce plans to clean up Washington, D.C.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
Washington, D.C. will be LIBERATED today! Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR. I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! I quickly fixed the Border (ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months!), D.C. is next!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
In a previous Truth Social post:
The Press Conference on Crime and “Beautification” will be held tomorrow, at 10:00 A.M. EST, in the Press Briefing Room, and it will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness and the General Physical Renovation and Condition of our once beautiful and well maintained Capital. We are not going to allow people to spend $3.1 Billion Dollars on fixing up a building, like the Federal Reserve, which could have been done in a far more elegant and time sensitive manner for $50 to $100 Million Dollars. The Renovation would have actually been better, and we would have saved $3 Billion Dollars, Traffic Jams, and never-ending Construction. The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive. The American Public is not going to put up with it any longer. Just like I took care of the Border, where you had ZERO Illegals coming across last month, from millions the year before, I will take care of our cherished Capital, and we will make it, truly, GREAT AGAIN! Before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the World. It will soon be that again. Thank you for your attention to this matter — See you tomorrow at 10 A.M.!
Trump’s reaction came about after 10 teenagers beat up DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, 19, when he tried to help an elderly woman thwart a carjacking.
The New York Times reported that Trump wants to assign 120 FBI agents to patrol DC at night.
I see the right claiming crime is up in D.C. The left claims stats show a decrease in crime.
Me? Well, coming from Chicago, I know authorities like to fudge the numbers.
I watched Naming the Dead this weekend where the DOE Project uses DNA and genealogy to identify victims.
One victim lost his life in 1996 when Atlanta, GA, hosted the Olympics. The people involved with the episode discovered that law enforcement encourage people not to report many crimes to keep the crime rate numbers done. Gotta look good, after all!
I rarely trust crime numbers, especially in Democrat-run cities. Even when Chicago’s crime rate numbers look horrible I still don’t trust them. I assume the actual crime rate number is much higher.
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Let us pray that things simmer down with law enforcement being bolstered, as the left is openly salivating for a vigilante justice incident to rally around.
As much as good men want to resort to violence with violence, now is not the time to let tempers flare.
its not just that one incident
its the fact that dc has allll the power and none of the responsibilities b/c as good leftists
they are not responsible for their actions as the show us 1000% of the time
they make the mess…maga has to clean it up
rinse and repeat
maga
How many of you have spent any time in DC? I went there several times on business.
It is not just the crime. The town is infested with “civil servants” who think they are above decent manners given how they conduct themselves and how they drive. (Get out of my way, peasant!) Astronomically priced restaurants. Hotels no one but lobbyists can afford. It’s dirty.
I am embarrassed that this is what we have for a capitol city.
As for the carjackers and the muggers: this is to be expected given the fact the law abiding are disarmed, combined with The Protected Demographic.
Take away their home rule. Like any other US city run by The Protected Demographic, the place is a wreck.
The Civil Servants can be dealt with by cutting their agencies. We don’t need most of them anyway.
Too-well-paid. Lots and lots of leased German cars on the streets of DC.
As a former resident of Northern Virginia and a veteran of many DC trips, I can testify that all of this is accurate. Home Rule was a huge mistake and those that have “ruled” have proven unfit to do so.
Return DC to its previous status.
“Dat’s raciss!
“That’s reality!”
I was actually hoping Trump would return it to its ORIGINAL status… undeveloped swamp land.
Same for the UN land.
My wife and I went in 2018 and left very disappointed. Traffic is indeed horrid, attitudes abound and it just looked trashy…a far cry from the beautiful city I visited in 1985 and 88.
I don’t offend easily, but one thing that I found offensive as can be was at the aviation museum on the mall. There was a display with the cockpit of a DC-7, and the area nearby had things like mannequins dressed with 1950s stewardess uniforms, posters, etc. Among these was a little diorama – if that is the right word – in a display case. It was a cutaway section of the cabin of the DC-7. A tent card described it, including, loosely quoting “…did you notice something? That’s right: all white passengers!”
The bastards had to bring race in a display about mid-century commercial aviation.
I am very interested in commercial aviation from its inception through the dawn of the early jet age. I was ready to put a $50 in the donation box. Instead I walked to the office, waved the fifty and old them why they were NOT getting it.
Geez oh Lou! I don’t care about genetics nor x/y chromosomes…I get excited over a Clark Y!
I was there this past December to visit family, and we were taking the train out.
When we went to the Amtrack station in the morning, there were AT LEAST 10 different homeless people milling around the terminal aggressively stopping people. The staff at the stores in the terminal were clearly at the end of their rope dealing with them, but not a single cop in sight.
I did 15 years there in federal sales and support. The crime and the attitude were always there, but at least the city was relatively pretty and accessible. You could visit the monuments without harassment, drive around the rear of the White House, park on the road, walk down the sidewalk, and take photos of the north side, that sort of thing. We went back in 1999 and it was like East Berlin. Bollards everywhere down the sidewalks, monuments closed (you can’t even visit the observation level of the Washington Monument anymore, it’s physically unsafe), no parking allowed anywhere a car bomb could affect a building, That was my last ever visit to the city.
I was there in the late twenty-aughts. Dirty, expensive, felt unsafe even in daylight hours, attitudinal quota-hires in leased Mercedes and BMWs driving like they wanted to just mow down those they perceived to be in their way…
We were just there at the end of July to visit our daughter and entertain out-of-country relatives. I hadn’t been there since I was a child in the early 70s – back when you could go up in the Washington Monument unhindered – and I might not have paid a whole lot of attention to details back then, but I absolutely do not remember the numbers of vagrants that I saw this time around.
Well Grizzly, I probably have the record on this blog as far as DC is concerned. I arrived there in 1958 to attend night law school and left in 2015 when I retired to Florida.
It was a pretty straight downhill ride. 1968 was the turning point. From then on DC became a racial battleground. The POC won that battle and never let any non POC forget it. One thing we non-POCs were very cautious to avoid was the situation where we were in our car at a traffic stop and a POC pedestrian walks in front of our car and stumbles into the car, and then claims they had been hit by the car. Very loudly. Demands for ID and insurance, lawsuit follows, insurance settles for $$$$ and the process starts again for another pigeon.
DC government ineptitude is contagious:
1) no chase laws in LA allow thuggs who stole a big rig and drove it the wrong way down the highway endangering alllll those lives…allowed thugggs to escape
so the thuggs are 10000% putting people lives in danger but the police who mighttt put innocent lives in danger in the pursuit of thugggs are neutered by pro criminal lefitsts
2) didnt trump just order that no illegals should be given tax funding for colleges?
b/c I see in texas they are calling it a residency issue…not an illegal issue
I could be wrong on this
3) and in the UK straphangers pushed back after a criminal on the tube started …well.. .showing his “tube”
the police of course assigned the criminal as a mental health issue
and the pro civility people as the real criminals
Trump needs to teach classes in how to run the government
even if he isnt 100% always correct
thats how good he is
The tuition issue is one that treated illegal immigrant Students differently (preferably) than out of State US Citizen Students by offering them far lower in State tuition rates which is unlawful b/c it effectively discriminates on the basis of ‘national origin’. It would be far better if Congress bit the bullet and simply prohibited any tax funding to illegal aliens directly or indirectly by any program/entity receiving Federal funds.
If people wanted to open their personal wallet and make funds available they could do so so long as those funds and the programs they supported were contained in a financial ‘silo’ so no co mingling of funds could take place to include prohibition on shared personnel, offices, rents, utilities, websites…completely separate and it it would be ok but any shared resources and it wouldn’t be.
yes but is it a “legal” or not issue
or a residency issue
if the former,,then they cant get anyyyy tax funding
but if the latter…then they could be illegally in the country but live in texas and prove it with a utility bill etc and then get the lower -in- state tuition
tia
No. Residence isn’t the issue here nor is there a current Federal prohibition on providing higher ED dollars to illegal aliens.
An institution runs into discrimination issues, based on National Origin, if they offer preferential ‘in State’ tuition rates to illegal aliens but don’t also offer the same lower rate to out of State US Citizens. IOW they can’t effectively engage in discrimination against US Citizens based on National Origin by not granting them the same lower in State tuition rate they give to illegal aliens.
So, 100 guys who are not beat cops thrown at a city of over half a million people are going to do what exactly? Is there any pressure on the prosecutors to proecute? The PD to make arrests? Any proactive disruption of destabilizing elements?
What exactly is the plan here?
by now knowing that maga has arrived…the fear from the DC elites are that they are going to have their books looked into…travel expenses etc
that would lead to the exposer of crimes that have allowed the leftists to perpetuate their agenda
So he may also be sending in the national guard.
I’m still not particularly optimistic about this plan.
the locals wont take care of it
the feds come in and take over schools etc
to me its still a local issue and the people should sweep out the trash
but these people are bailed out by the taxpayers
so in the INTEREST OF THE TAXPAYERS
djt is “balancing the books”
For starters they could simply go after low hanging fruit like Federal firearms crimes. Take a.look at your local crime reports and you will often see crimes involving a firearm but you won’t see the Fed prosecution in addition to State prosecution. Using a firearm near a school, heck even having one while slinging ‘dope’ are crimes with stiff mandatory minimum sentencing. Add in use/possession by a felon or other prohibited person and the easily proven case results in lengthy Federal prison time.
also in many many cases the courts drop the weapons charges
the left wants the criminals to purchase through legal means,,weapons
then when the criminal uses those weapons lefty gets to say
look they bought it legally
the system isnt working
ban the legal purchase of weapons
Before the pandemic, 60 Minutes did a story on ‘gun crime’ on DC and in that story, they unbelievably (and probably accidentally) actually did some real journalism. They reported on the number of arrests for illegal possession of a firearm DC police did the previous year. I can’t remember the exact number, but arguendo let’s call it 2K-arrests. They then counted the number of PROSECUTIONS during the same time-period for illegal possession of a firearm and that number was < 100 (it might have been < 10). Local DC prosecutors prosecuted a fraction of a fraction of the 'gun' arrests and they've been doing that for decades…according to 60 Minutes.
What I don't know is if federal prosecutors can go back and look at those cases, or even at current year cases, and bring charges even though the local DC prosecutors took a pass. If they can, that could be hugely impactful.
In 2012, David Gregory waved around a 30-round magazine on Meet the Press. Possession of that magazine was (and I assume still is) illegal in DC. Despite pressure from many, the DA refused to prosecute.
Obie, it was even worse than that. Gregory had, IN ADVANCE, inquired about it, was told by both his lawyers and the police that it would be illegal to possess it at all, much less wave it around on the air, and then did his stupid show anyway.
He KNEW he wouldn’t face consequences, and he was right.
No different from 10 years ago. Around 2018 when the Ds were losing their mind over ‘gun control’, The FBI statistics came out.
If I recall correctly, there were approx 60,000 federal gun violations from failed background checks, a significant number of them felons trying to buy guns (which is an automatic crime).
The number of actual prosecutions?
40. Not 40 thousand. 40. As in 38, 39, 40. Enough people to fit in a single room. Less than 1%.
We have never had a ‘not enough gun laws’ problem. We have always had an enforcement problem.
Different sovereignty, so presumably depending on statute of limitations… a very strong maybe to definitely yes. The firearms possession by prohibited person and/or in a prohibited place cases are really simple. If they got solid evidence of John Smith with the firearm in X location it’s a wrap and a mandatory minimum sentence. It really seems to be a question of willingness to bring the charges, especially with all the geo location data and surveillance video available today v even two decades ago.
I hate the “Because we can’t do everything we should do nothing” crowd?
This is simply an application of the “Broken Windows Theory” of law enforcement,
The broken windows theory states that any visible signs of crime and civil disorder, such as broken windows (hence, the name of the theory), vandalism, loitering, public drinking, jaywalking, and transportation fare evasion, create an urban environment that promotes even more crime and disorder (Wilson & Kelling, 1982).
As such, policing these misdemeanors will help create an ordered and lawful society in which all citizens feel safe and crime rates, including violent crime rates, are low.
Broken windows policing tries to regulate low-level crime to prevent widespread disorder from occurring. If these small crimes are greatly reduced, then neighborhoods will appear to be more cared for.
It was successfully applied in New York City in the 1990’s. Critics claim that it can be racially discriminatory.
I’m not even part of that crowd, I was asking for an elaboration of the plan, because what had been announced at the time sounded like “That’s not even going to do anything”.
The problem is that the three major announcements were reported on separately and at different times. I still want a look at the cohesive plan.
3 strike laws worked. If you are so criminal or just plain stupid that you can’t stop committing crimes even when you KNOW the next one will put you away for a long time, you deserve jail.
They worked, that’s why the left had to get rid of them.
If he takes the right 100, it will greatly improve the quality of life of the rest of us who don’t live in DC.
wherever lefty rules this is the norm and the good people are cucked into shutting up or else
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Democrats will move Heaven & Hell to stop this because if they don’t, Trump will prove without equivocation that crime in urban America is a CHOICE. If that gains traction, it’s an existential threat to Democrats.
Hammerhead, meet Nail! They are afraid of the ineptness that needs dealing with.
Exactly. This might almost be even bigger than the border issue, where Trump proved he could get the number down to nearly zero without any of the new laws the Democrats were clamoring were needed.
Expect Judge Boasberg to issue Court order enjoining these actions in 3 …. 2…. 1… The Democrats will attach a near religious significance to the order and pontificate about the “rule of law” ( or is it the ‘rule of riots”)?
Rule of Riots is exhibit A for the leftist take on Democracy. When the riot bites them it releases sanctimonious enzymes that drip drip drips from deceitful lips.
The news said that Trump is calling out the vaginal guard.
From the adjoining state of Vaginia?
Hey! It’s for LOVERS!
As in Loving v. Virginia.
Sounds like he declared more than a crime emergency. More like martial law
No, he hasn’t declared martial law, and he can’t.
But he’s taken over the PD. The police want to make arrests, but their commanders have told them not to. Now they don’t work for those commanders any more, and the new management is telling them to do their jobs, which they want to do.
In public they scream and yell. In private they rejoice.
While I’m not against this by Trump, it simply ignores the core issue, an issue I’m not sure CAN be solved.
And that issue is the fact that any crime in DC will go to a jury that’s minimum 95% leftists, and at least a couple will be far leftists that won’t convict ANY criminal, for any reason, because of the color of their skin.
The only solution is to move any and all criminal trials away from DC, but that won’t be allowed.
Nah. You arrest them, and instead of bringing them to trial, you store them in the cells they used for the J6 gulag, Store the indefinitely, keeps them off the streets. Then when their lawyers demand speedy trials, you say, “What what? Whatchu talkin about? We don’t do that no mo. Democrat rules!”
I noticed on a crime map of DC that 1/4 of DC is east of the Anacostia River and 3/4 of the murders occurred there. Area called Southeast Washington. President Trump should offer to sell all land east of the Anacostia to Maryland for one dollar. And see if Maryland will buy.
Y’know, I can see this in DC. It is a federal entity unto itself.
What concerns me is the musings about sending the Guard to other large blue cities to deal with the crime.
Not exactly small government, Constitutional, conservative behavior…
I’m reminded of a scene in the 1987 political thriller, Suspect, starring Cher and Liam Neeson. Cher’s character is assaulted and robbed sitting in her car in traffic in Washington DC. Look for the video before it’s removed by xJoanny.