President Donald Trump said that homeless people will have places to stay “FAR from the Capital” and pledged that violent criminals in Washington, D.C., will be prosecuted aggressively in a pair of Sunday posts on Truth Social.
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward Coristine, known by the moniker “Big Balls,” was severely injured when he intervened to prevent a carjacking in the District of Columbia. Trump said a Monday press conference would focus on safety in the nation’s capital, and the president directed a massive increase in the federal law enforcement presence in Washington on Thursday.
“We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK.”
Crime in the District of Columbia became a hot-button issue after Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern for Republican Rep. Ron Estes of Kansas, was fatally shot June 30. Two employees of the Israeli Embassy were killed in a May shooting, while Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota was assaulted in her apartment in February 2023.
Trump, who floated the idea of a federal takeover of the district after Coristine was injured, announced the press conference would not just be about crime in a Sunday afternoon post on Truth Social.
“The Press Conference on Crime and ‘Beautification’ will be held tomorrow, at 10:00 A.M. EST, in the Press Briefing Room, and it will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness and the General Physical Renovation and Condition of our once beautiful and well maintained Capital,” Trump posted. “We are not going to allow people to spend $3.1 Billion Dollars on fixing up a building, like the Federal Reserve, which could have been done in a far more elegant and time sensitive manner for $50 to $100 Million Dollars. The Renovation would have actually been better, and we would have saved $3 Billion Dollars, Traffic Jams, and never-ending Construction.”
“The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive,” Trump continued. “The American Public is not going to put up with it any longer. Just like I took care of the Border, where you had ZERO Illegals coming across last month, from millions the year before, I will take care of our cherished Capital, and we will make it, truly, GREAT AGAIN! Before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the World. It will soon be that again.”
According to Article I of the Constitution, Congress can exercise control over the nation’s capital. Congress granted the District of Columbia “home rule” in 1973, but Congress can disapprove legislation passed by the D.C. government.
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