‘I’m Trying To Hold My Temper’: MSNBC Contrib On Verge Of Melting Down Over Trump’s DC Crime Crackdown

Immediately after President Donald Trump announced his administration’s plans to combat violent crime in Washington, D.C. on Monday, MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude said he was refraining from losing his “temper.”

Trump announced that he was taking measures — including declaring a “public safety emergency” and deploying the National Guard — to counter violent crime in the city. Glaude, on “Chris Jansing Reports,” hurled various accusations at Trump, claiming the president was not genuinely concerned with stopping crime.

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“Chris, to be honest with you, I’m trying to hold my temper. I think there’s an ongoing argument that he’s having in his head with Black Lives Matter. There’s an ongoing argument that he’s having with the questions around criminal justice reform and police reform,” Glaude told host Chris Jansing. “It’s interesting that he really doesn’t really care about what’s actually happening in D.C. on a certain level, because he’s not trying to get at the underlying root causes. He’s not looking at examples of how to address rising crime rates that doesn’t require a form of policing that leads to increased incarcera.”

“We have to understand this Chris within the context of Donald Trump’s racial 🏛️Politics and within the context of his effort to get Epstein off the front pages … when we try to treat this as a rational response, then we lose sight of the actual 🏛️Politics that’s being played here,” he added. “And he’s actually trying to give his base red meat to get them off of the Epstein story. And it’s on the backs of citizens in Washington, D.C. He’s going to undermine the democratic process in the district!”

Trump also announced that Attorney General Pam Bondi would be overseeing the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

Though violent crime has fallen 26% in comparison to 2024, there have been 99 homicides thus far in D.C. in 2025, according to the MPD tracker.

High-profile cases of violent crime have also recently swept across the nation’s capital.

Former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward Coristine, also known as “Big Balls,” received a severe beating when he intervened in a carjacking of a woman at around 3 a.m. on August 5.

A June 30 gang-related shooting also killed 21-year-old congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym near a Metro station after the suspects allegedly emerged from their vehicle and opened fire on a group of people. In May, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez allegedly fatally shot two Israeli Embassy staffers outside of the Capital Jewish Museum.

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