U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, as he makes an announcement on the economic system, within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 7, 2025.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday once more signaled that he’s ramping up plans to focus on crime in Washington, D.C., whilst knowledge reveals that crime charges within the nation’s capital are falling.
He additionally issued a warning to the town’s homeless inhabitants. “The Homeless have to maneuver out, IMMEDIATELY. We offers you locations to remain, however FAR from the Capital,” he wrote on Fact Social.
Trump’s remarks come as he has elevated his rhetoric about countering crime within the District in current days, after a former member of the Division of Authorities Effectivity was assaulted in an tried carjacking.
“It is all going to occur very quick, identical to the Border,” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
“We went from hundreds of thousands pouring in, to ZERO in the previous few months. This might be simpler — Be ready!”
“There might be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We wish our Capital BACK,” he stated.
Final month, Trump signed an government order making it simpler for cities to take away homeless individuals, drawing hearth from advocates for the homeless. His social media publish is the newest signal that he seeks to comply with by way of on this effort, notably within the nation’s capital.
Trump’s feedback about crime in D.C. are at odds with knowledge from the Justice Division that reveals violent crime within the metropolis in 2024 was at a 30-year low, and homicides, robberies and armed carjackings have all declined.
Trump additionally reiterated in his social media publish that he plans to carry a press availability on the White Home on Monday about crime in D.C.
The White Home final week additionally introduced a seven-day effort to counter crime within the metropolis, together with an elevated presence of federal regulation enforcement throughout the District.
The District has been a frequent goal of Trump’s, together with throughout his first time period. Nonetheless, his language has grow to be extra forceful in current days, sparking ire from Democratic management within the metropolis.
“Any comparability to a war-torn nation is hyperbolic and false,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated on MSNBC.
“I additionally simply actually wish to say we at all times wish to get higher, and there are methods greater than another metropolis in America that the federal authorities may help the District of Columbia,” she continued.
