President Trump mentioned he plans to exit on patrol with the Metropolitan Police Division and Nationwide Guard troops round Washington, D.C., on Thursday night time amid a federal crackdown on crime.
“I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course. So we’re going to do a job,” Trump instructed conservative radio host Todd Starnes on his present. “The National Guard is great. They’ve done a fantastic job.”
A White Home official instructed The Hill that particulars of what Trump can be doing had been forthcoming.
The Trump administration earlier this month started surging federal legislation enforcement throughout elements of the District to crack down on what the White Home mentioned was an unacceptable stage of crime, regardless of statistics displaying violent crime has declined within the metropolis.
Final week, Trump took federal management of the Metropolitan Police Division and deployed a whole lot of Nationwide Guard troops throughout the town to additional the crack down on crime.
White Home officers mentioned earlier Thursday that there had been greater than 600 whole arrests made since federal officers had been deployed across the metropolis on Aug. 7. Of these, 251 had been arrests of immigrants within the nation illegally, the White Home mentioned.
Critics of Trump’s aggressive crackdown throughout D.C. have pointed to statistics that present the town’s violent crime fee fell in 2024 and is down once more 2025. And a few native residents have expressed their disapproval, protesting federal officers stationed of their neighborhoods.
A Washington Publish-Schar Faculty ballot of 604 D.C. residents printed Wednesday discovered 65 p.c don’t assume Trump’s actions will make the town safer. Roughly 80 p.c of residents mentioned they opposed Trump’s govt order to federalize the town’s police division.
However White Home officers have been adamant that statistics don’t precisely seize the state of crime and decay within the nation’s capital.
Vice President Vance, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller met with Nationwide Guard troops at Union Station on Wednesday to thank them for his or her work. The officers had been greeted with protests on the transportation hub, which Miller mocked.
“We’re going to disregard these silly white hippies that every one have to go house and take a nap as a result of they’re throughout 90 years previous,” he mentioned. “And we’re going to get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington, D.C.”
This story was up to date at 1:03 p.m. EDT.
