U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, as he makes an announcement on the financial 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 information reveals that crime charges within the nation’s capital are falling.
He additionally issued a warning to town’s homeless inhabitants. “The Homeless have to maneuver out, IMMEDIATELY. We gives you locations to remain, however FAR from the Capital,” he wrote on Truth 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 Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted in an tried carjacking.
“It is all going to occur very quick, identical to the Border,” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
“We went from tens of millions pouring in, to ZERO in the previous couple of months. This will likely be simpler — Be ready!”
“There will likely be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We would like our Capital BACK,” he stated.
Trump final month signed an executive order making it simpler for cities to take away homeless individuals, drawing robust pushback from advocates for homeless individuals. His social media put up is the economist signal that he seeks to observe by on this effort, notably within the nation’s capital.
Trump’s comments about D.C. are at odds with data from the Justice Department that reveals that 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 post 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, however he his language has grow to be extra forceful in current days, drawing pushback from Democratic management within the metropolis.
“Any comparability to a struggle torn nation is hyperbolic and false,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”
“I additionally simply actually need to say we at all times need to get higher, and there are methods greater than some other metropolis in America that the federal authorities might help the District of Columbia,” she continued.