President Donald Trump announced during a press conference of the White House on August 11, 2025 in Washington, DC, a “criminal police”. The Interior Minister Doug Burgum, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the director of FBI, and US lawyer for the Columbia Jeanine Pirro district, stand from left to right. (Picture about the White House Livestream)
Washington – President Donald Trump gave the control of the District of Columbia Police Force on Monday and mobilized 800 troops of the National Guard in the nation’s capital under what he declared that he was a “crime emergency”.
Trump took the step despite the step a three decades In violent crimes in Washington, DC, he may warn similar measures in other democratically guided cities, which he sees as “completely out of control”.
Trump at a press conference said he hoped that other democratically managed cities are watching because the actions on Monday in the district are only the beginning.
“We start very strongly with DC,” said Trump.
The President placed The Metropolitan Police Department of around 3,400 civil servants under federal control, referring to the House Regel Act of the District, which allows the federal government to be taken over to the declaration of an emergency, or 30 days after the explanation. The congress can also approve the expansion.
“We will withdraw our capital,” said Trump.
The mayor of the district, Muriel Bowser, described the campaign on Monday as “worrying and unprecedented”. She added that the president did not inform them that the police were adopted.
Doge’s employee injured
The escalation of the federal control came after a former US State Ministry of Efficiency or Doge was injured in an official attempted carjacking incident Around 3 a.m. near the district district of Logan Circle. Two juvenile people in Maryland were arrested for unarmed carjacking in connection with the incident.
The President said he was ready to send more national guard “if necessary” and he would treat the city exactly as he dealt with the immigration on the southern border. The Trump administration has carried out a campaign with mass deportations.
Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said during the press conference that members of the National Guard will eventually “flow” to the district this week.
Local civil servants in the district protested Trump’s move. DC General Prosecutor Brian Schwalb, a chosen civil servant, wrote on xFormerly Twitter that the “actions of the Trump government are unprecedented, unnecessary and illegal”.
“There is no emergency in crime in the Columbia district. Violent crimes in DC reached historical 30-year-old lows last year and has dropped by another 26% this year,” said Schwalb.
“We think all of our options and will do what is necessary to protect the rights and safety of the district dwellers,” he continued.
Trump at the press conference said that he also instructed the officials to trigger camps of homeless people in the district, but did not describe in detail where these people would be moved.
Hundreds of federal law enforcement officers, the agencies of the drug authority of the interior department, were deployed in the city on Saturday and Sunday.
Los Angeles and beyond
The President’s approach, after a Federal Supreme Court had temporarily approved this summer to take control of the Californian national guard of the democratic governor Gavin Newsom in order to investigate the protests on the aggressive immigration attacks.
The President on Monday beat several gigantic democratic cities – Baltimore, Chicago, New York City and Oakland – and claimed inaccurately that they had the highest murder rates.
Trump said that he hopes that other cities will watch “us today”.
“Maybe you will clean up yourself and maybe you will do yourself and remove the cashless deposit and all the things that caused the problem,” said the president.
Trump pointed to Chicago and criticized the mayor Brandon Johnson and the democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker.
“I understand that he wants to be president,” said Trump about Pritzker before scored by the governor’s personal appearance. “I noticed that he lost a little weight, so he may have a chance.”
Pritzker organizes Texan Democrats who have left the state to prevent the state legislature from being a quorum after the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, called a special meeting To surround the state to give Republicans more seats in the congress.
Gop applauded
The top republican of the US committee for supervision and government reform, which is responsible for the district, praised Trump’s decision to employ the national guard and take over the police department.
“President Trump rightly uses the power of the executive to take courageous and necessary measures to take action against crime and to restore law and order in Washington, DC,” said Rep. James Comer, Republican of Kentucky.
Comer added that the committee would stop a hearing with Schwalb, the chairman of the DC council, Phil Mendelson and Mayor Muriel Bowser in the next month.
While the governors of the states have control over their national guards, the president has control over the members of the National Guard in the district. As part of the Posse Comitatus Act from 1878, the National Guard arrested no authority that generally excludes the employ of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.
During the first term of Trump, he hired around 5,000 National Guard for Black Lives Matter demonstrators in the district after the police were killed in Minneapolis in 2020.
And despite the inquiries from congress leaders, Trump shifted the activation of the National Guard in particular during the uprising of 2021 when the President’s supporters tried to undermine the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
In one of the first actions of Trump on his inauguration day in January, he pardoned hundreds of rioters on January 6th, who were charged by the Ministry of Justice for their participation in the uprising.
Putin meeting
In a question-and-response session, after announcing the employ of the national guard, Trump reporters said that he hoped that his meeting would aid with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to bring this country to peace with Ukraine that would involve every country that would point one territory to the other.
Trump described the Friday summit in Alaska-Putin’s first visit to the United States in a decade “Feel-out meeting”.
When asked whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was invited to the summit, Trump said that he was “not part of it”. Every peace frame between Trump and Putin would be forwarded to Zelenskyy, he said.
An end to the war would have to come from direct conversations between Putin and Zelenskyy, which can ultimately affect the United States or not, he said.
“I will put them in a room and I will be there or I will not be there and I think it will be solved,” he said about Putin and Zelenskyy.
Trump said he was “a little disappointed” that Zelenskyy did not immediately agree to hand over the area to Russia that entered his country in February 2022.
“The Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier,” said Zelenskyy in A video address Saturday, clamorous The New York Times.
