I drove to work this morning through downtown D.C. Pretty morning, light traffic along Constitution Avenue, families and tourists strolling towards the monuments, snapping pictures of the White House.

Two hours later, President Trump appeared in the White House briefing room and said this.

Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals roving mobs of wild youth.

Except that according to Justice Department, statistics violent crime in D.C. hit a three-decade low in 2024,

that being the most recent year for which statistics are available.

See, they fight back until you knock the hell out of them because it's the only language

they understand. Trump said he's taking over Washington. He announced he is deploying the National

Guard to the city. This after a weekend, when scores of federal agents were deployed to the Capitol.

The president also says purging the city's homeless people would be part of a wider effort to beautify the city.

And we're getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here. We're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct.

You'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of the slums where they live.

And Trump made another big promise that his administration would take control of the D.C. police.

This will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C. and we're going to clean it up real quick,

very quickly, as they say. Starting with D.C. because the president listed other big cities with what

he says are high levels of crime.

We have other cities also that are bad, very bad.

You look at Chicago, how bad it is.

You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is.

Consider this.

President Trump says he is using his executive authority to solve rampant crime in the nation's capital.

What happens now?

And what could this mean for other cities across the country?

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