President Donald Trump announces the “crisis” in Washington during the White House press conference on August 11, 2025. Standing behind Trump are, from left to right, internal secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSth, Pam Bondi General Prosecutor General Prosecutor, director of the FBI Kash Patel and USA for the Columbia District Jeano Pirro. (Image through the broadcast of the White House)
Washington – President Donald Trump found control on Monday of the Columbia Police Force district and mobilized 800 national soldiers of the National Guard in the capital of the nation under what the “crisis” announced.
Trump took a step despite Three decaded low Along with violence in Washington in DC, warning that he can conduct similar actions in other cities led by democratic, which he considers crimes “completely beyond control.”
At a press conference, Trump said that he hopes that other cities managed by Democrats are observing because Monday’s activities in the district are just the beginning.
“We start very hard with DC,” said Trump.
President placed Metropolitan Police Department with about 3,400 officers under federal control, citing the act on the household rules of the district, which allows federal takeover until the announcement of sudden accidents, i.e. 30 days after the declaration. Congress can also allow extension.
“We’ll take our capital,” said Trump.
The mayor of the district, Muriel Bowser, called the Monday action “disturbing and unprecedented”. She added that the president was not informed that the police forces of the district would be taken over.
Doge Rani employee
The escalation of federal control occurred after the former Department of the Government in the USA or Doge, the official was injured in An attempt to incident with theft Around 3 am East near the District of the Logan Circle District. Two teenagers from Maryland were arrested on charges of unarmed theft in connection with the incident.
The president said that he was ready to send more national guard “if necessary” and that he would cope with the city in the same way as he managed immigration on the southern border. The Trump administration carried out a campaign of mass deportations.
Defense Secretary Pete HegeSeth said during a press conference that members of the National Guard would “come” to the district this week.
Local officials in the district protested for Trump’s movement. DC Prosecutor General Brian Schwalb, selected official, wrote on xEarlier, Twitter that “Trump’s administration actions are unprecedented, unnecessary and unlawful.”
“There is no crime situation in the District of Colombia. A crime of violence in DC achieved a historical 30-year minima last year, and this year fell by another 26%,” said Schwalb.
“We are considering all our options and we will do what is necessary to protect the rights and safety of the residents of the district,” he continued.
At a press conference, Trump said that he also ordered officials to neat the camp of the homeless in the district, but did not describe in detail where these people would be moved.
Hundreds of federal law enforcement officers, representing agencies from the drug enforcement agency to the internal department, were arranged throughout the city on Saturday and Sunday.
Los Angeles and more
The transfer of the president in the district took place after the Federal Appeal Court this summer temporarily approved Trump’s movement to take over California of the National Guard from the democratic governor of Gavin Newsom in order to suppress protests on the aggressive immigration of administration.
On Monday, the president slammed several main democratic cities – Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Oakland – and inaccurately claimed that they had the highest murder indicators.
Trump said he hopes that other cities “watch us today.”
“Maybe clean up and maybe they will do it and get rid of a non -cash deposit and all the things that caused the problem,” said the president.
Trump pointed to Chicago, criticizing the mayor of Brandon Johnson and Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker.
“I understand that he wants to become president,” Trump said about Pritzker before he scored the governor’s personal appearance. “I noticed that he lost a bit of weight, so maybe he has a chance.”
Pritzker is the host of the Democrats Texas who left their state to prevent the legislative legislator PO KWORUM after Republican Gubermie In order to redistribute the state to give more fines to the Republicans in Congress.
GOP Classes
The best Republican in the American Surveillance and Government Reformation Commission, which has jurisdiction over the district, praised Trump’s decision to distribute the national guard and take over the police department.
“President Trump rightly uses executive power to take brave and necessary actions to part and restore law and order in Washington,” he said in the statement of Rep. James Comer, a republican from Kentucky.
Comer added that the Committee will carry out the trial of Schwalb, chairman of the DC Council Phil Mendelson and the mayor of Muriel Bowser next month.
While governors are controlling national guards, the president has control over members of the National Guard in a district. The National Guard has no arrest authority, in accordance with the POSEE Comitatus Act of 1878, which generally prohibits the utilize of the army for national law enforcement agencies.
During the first term of office, Trump deployed about 5,000 national guard at the Black Lives Matter protesting in the district after the police kills George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
And despite the conclusions of the leaders of the Congress, Trump particularly delayed the activation of members of the National Guard during the Uprising in the US Capitol in 2021, when the president’s supporters tried to overthrow the certificate of the presidential election in 2020.
In one of Trump’s first actions in his inauguration in January he pardoned hundreds of riots on January 6, who were accused by the Department of Justice for their involvement in the uprising.
Putin’s meeting
In the session of the questions and answers after the announcement of the National Guard, Trump told journalists that he hopes that his meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin will facilitate in erecting this country to peace with Ukraine, which, as he said, will include every country that submitted a second territory.
Trump described the Friday peak in Alaska-Putin’s first visit to the USA for a decade-as a “noticeable meeting”.
Asked if the President of the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy was invited to the top, Trump said that “he is not part of it.” He said that all the room frames discussed between Trump and Putin would be handed over to Zelenskyy.
He said that the end of the war would have to come from direct conversations between Putin and Zelenskyy, which may, but do not have to, cover the US.
“I intend to put them in the room, and I will be there or I will not be there, and I think it will be dissolved,” he said about Putin and Zelenskyy.
Trump said that he was “a bit disappointed”, that Zelenskyy did not agree to immediately convey the territory of Russia, which attacked his country in February 2022. Zelensky repeated many times that giving the land of Russia was not a starter, including after Trump suggested it at the weekend.
“Ukrainians will not give their land a tenant,” said Zelenskyy video address According to Saturday The New York Times.
