In June 1775, the Continental Congress named George Washington the Commander-in-Chief of the fledgling Patriot army. Two-hundred fifty years later, President Donald J. Trump is restoring order to the district that bears his name. In the Brady Briefing Room this morning, President Donald J. Trump announced Liberation Day in Washington DC, marking the transformation of the city from a playground for criminals into a fortress of law and order. The final stroke came when a gang of violent juveniles attempted to carjack a young woman last week. A young federal staffer named Edward Coristine (known affectionately in the left-wing media as “Big Balls”) made well on his moniker by rushing to her rescue. He was left concussed on the side of the road; the woman, thankfully, escaped. Moved by his sacrifice, President Trump threatened to “take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run” if local elected leadership refused to make Columbia livable.
Today, President Trump made good on his word by applying the DC Home Rule Act to federalize law enforcement operations in the district. The Federal Government will take direct control over the DC Metropolitan Police Department while the National Guard, FBI, ATF, and other agencies will assist their operations. Working together, these agencies will prove that high crime rates are a policy choice, not a fact of fate. The violent crime epidemic in America’s cities has unfortunately been left unaddressed for so many decades that some Americans mistakenly believe that it is an inevitable part of life. This is not so. In Washington as elsewhere, crime is an artificial problem created by decades of far-left governance. As a policy choice, crime rates can be lowered as well as raised. By simply repealing cash bail and jailing criminals, as President Trump intends to do, Washington can be made as pleasant a paradise as Eden.
What is to be done when the Democrats who run America’s cities are incapable of self-governance? Left to their own devices, left-wingers will burn our cities to the ground, let aliens and gangsters run our streets, and tear down the monuments that commemorate our Nation’s heroes. In Washington, President Trump is left with the unenviable task of enforcing order among a population that does not meet the minimum standards for democracy. It is with alarming consistency that Democrats turn every city they govern into socialist hellscapes. Here are three astonishing statistics: since 2011, human waste was reported on the streets of San Francisco no less than 270,000 times. Fifty-two percent of Philadelphians are functionally illiterate. And one New Yorker was arrested 254 times for petty crimes – and is still on the streets today. Although large sections of Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles remain unlivable, today, President Trump gave Washington a chance.
It takes leaders of unusual caliber and courage to fix problems that have festered for decades. New York had her Giuliani. El Salvador has her Bukele. And Washington will have her President Donald J. Trump. As DC is made safe and clean in the coming weeks, President Trump’s bold leadership will encourage other cities suffering from the same problems to act. New York’s turn will come again, and with Zohran Mamdani on the ballot (may he be denaturalized and deported, inshallah), it will get worse before it gets better.
The key to safer cities is here, awaiting only the moment Americans choose a bolder road. It starts in Washington today. May it end in New York tomorrow.