President Donald Trump has touted his perceived wins while praising “healthy, attractive people” during a photo op to kick off his patrol with D.C. police and federal forces amid his crime crackdown.
Trump met with local and federal law enforcement at the U.S. Park Police facility in Anacostia Thursday evening, complimenting the roughly 300 men and women in the crowd as “healthy” and “attractive.”
The president also praised his own administration, telling the crowd, “ We’ve done a lot of good work, including the biggest tax cuts that you’ve ever had. “
Trump also talked about his plans to build a new ballroom in the White House, saying, “ They’ve been after a ballroom for 150 years, but they never had a real estate guy as a president.”
“ We had a country that was a dead country in many ways. I went to Saudi Arabia, I went to Qatar, I went to UAE. We came back with $5.1 trillion of investment in this country. And we’re over 17 trillion,” the president added.
During his speech, Trump said crime is “way down,” adding, “I feel very safe now and I’m hearing people are very safe.”
When Trump announced last week he had placed the Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deployed about 800 National Guard troops to D.C., he claimed it was done for the sake of the locals’ safety.
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” he said.
But the violent crime rate went down by 35 percent in 2024, a 30-year low, after peaking in 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. said in January.
This is a developing story…
