Lawmakers Discuss Trump's Latest Plans For DC
We knew the hammer was dropping — but the spectacle this morning was one for the history books. President Donald Trump has seized control of security in the nation’s capital.
The message was blunt: the homeless encampments have to go, the roving gangs of violent youths will be stopped, and the police are now under direct federal command. The National Guard is coming in, and for the first time in years, there’s a credible plan to restore law and order to a city that has been bleeding under its own mismanagement. Call it the beginning of the great de-scumming of Washington, D.C.
CNN decided to fact-check Trump by trying to make the point that DC crime is improving year-to-year. They used figures from DC’s local police. Their case might have been even stronger if DC’s police commander hadn’t been suspended for changing crime statistics. pic.twitter.com/R0yPUiaFaj
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) August 11, 2025
And the media? Right on cue, they reached for their favorite talking point — the one they’ve been polishing for months — that “crime is down” in the capital. Trouble is, that talking point has already been blown to pieces. NBC Washington itself reported back in July that D.C. police leadership was altering crime data to make the city look safer than it really is. That’s not public safety — that’s propaganda.
ABC ANCHOR: "Here in Downtown D.C., where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past 6 months, there were 2 people shot...Literally, 2 blocks away."
"I actually was jumped walking just 2 blocks down from here."
"This morning, my coworker's car was stolen." pic.twitter.com/W32oufHHC7
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 11, 2025
Still, the press rolled out the script. MSNBC and CNN pretended this was some shocking overreach. Social media echoed with the same cut-and-paste lines from Democrat leaders, all clinging to their cooked statistics like a life raft in a hurricane. And then came the dumbest take of the day — a tweet so dense you could use it to anchor the USS Constitution. It perfectly captured the elite bubble mindset: insulated, incurious, and allergic to the reality that normal D.C. residents live with every day.
I live in Arlington. I’m a reporter. I travel into DC frequently. I’ve never been carjacked. I know it happens but I don’t know anyone who has been carjacked. I’ve never been the victim of any crime in DC.
I have been to cities crawling with troops. Now that’s ugly. https://t.co/4UxwjYLjPB— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) August 11, 2025
Trump’s team didn’t just swat that one down; they dismembered it. Charts, stats, side-by-side comparisons — all delivered with a precision that left no room for spin. The contrast was brutal: a White House ready to back up its claims versus a political opposition still clutching bad numbers from a police department under investigation for manipulating those very numbers.
This is getting silly. Our subjective feelings of crime being up/down are not what counts. Statistics show that crime in DC spiked massively during the pandemic, came down a lot afterward (great), but is still high compared to many other cities. There's also new, worrisome… https://t.co/DOvZLXcM3H
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) August 11, 2025