August 11, 2025. President Donald J. Trump's big announcement today at his press conference,

to which he showed up late, was that he is assuming control over the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and deploying more than 100 agents

from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and about 40 from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

firearms, and explosives, along with officers from the Secret Service and the U.S. Marshal Service

and members of the District of Columbia National Guard, to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.

He reiterated that officers would clear homeless encampments from the city.

In fact, statistics from the Department of Justice show that violent crime in the nation's capital

was at a 30-year low in 2024, and, according to Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat from

D.C., is down 26 percent this year compared to the same period last year. Former Undersecretary of State,

and editor of Time magazine Richard Stengel, noted that Washington is not even in the top

10 dangerous cities in the U.S. Meanwhile, legal analyst Asha Rangapa notes that FBI agents are not

trained to patrol the streets and that every one of

them assigned to do that is not investigating foreign spies, foreign and domestic terrorists,

or crimes like fraud, murder, corruption, and human trafficking. If that was Trump's big

announcement, the big story seems to have been something different.

Trump's performance at the press conference, an event for which his handlers would have made sure he was at the top of his game,

made it clear that his mental deterioration is moving rapidly.

He let Secretary of Defense Pete Hegesith, Attorney General Pam Bondi,

and FBI director Cash Patel explain the actual plan, taking the microphone himself to describe a fake

world in which he plays the role of hero, solving five wars, creating a booming economy, solving the border

security others couldn't, protecting Americans from a hellscape that exists only in his rhetoric.

The administration's seizure of power is anything but imaginary. As Stengel noted, throughout history, autocrats use a false

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