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Trump revives his tyrannical obsession with taking on DC

Editorial Board Published July 9, 2025
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President Donald Trump is as soon as once more floating a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.—a transfer that might upend greater than 50 years of house rule within the nation’s capital.

“We could run D.C. I mean, we’re looking at D.C.,” Trump stated throughout a Tuesday Cupboard assembly. “We’re thinking about doing it, to be honest with you. We want a capital that’s run flawlessly.”

Trump framed the potential takeover as a response to crime, claiming that it could drastically cut back violence. 

“The crime would be down to a minimal, it’d be much less,” he stated. 

In actuality, police knowledge reveals that D.C.’s murder price is monitoring near final yr’s, and total violent crime is barely down. Nonetheless, high-profile incidents proceed to seize headlines, just like the taking pictures final week that left two injured and killed 21-year-old congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym.


Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell

Trump didn’t clarify what a federal takeover would truly entail however stated that White Home chief of employees Susie Wiles is involved with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. His newest feedback construct on earlier threats, together with a warning over the weekend that the White Home may intervene if the D.C. Council blocks a brand new NFL stadium for the Washington Commanders on the federally owned RFK Stadium web site.

This isn’t the primary time that Trump has raised the thought of a takeover. In February, he made the suggestion and accused Bowser of mismanaging the town. He additionally pledged on the marketing campaign path to repair D.C. and has repeatedly slammed the capital for crime and homeless encampments. 

Nonetheless, Bowser’s relationship with Trump has warmed throughout his second time period. The Democratic mayor has visited the White Home to assist laws associated to the Commanders’ stadium and backed the removing of Black Lives Matter Plaza close to the White Home.

“We’ve had a good relationship with the mayor, and we’re testing it to see if it works,” Trump stated Tuesday.

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani takes the stage at his primary election party, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

However Trump’s urge for food for asserting federal management isn’t restricted to D.C. He used related rhetoric when speaking about New York Metropolis, the place democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani just lately gained the Democratic major for mayor. 

“If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to,” Trump stated. “New York City will run properly. We’re going to bring New York back.”

Trump has urged New Yorkers to reject Mamdani within the common election, labeling him a “communist,” amongst different issues. Mamdani is predicted to face incumbent Mayor Eric Adams—who’s working as an unbiased—in addition to Republican Curtis Sliwa and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

However whereas Trump talks robust, revoking D.C.’s house rule can be no small feat. Congress must move laws dismantling the town’s native authorities, and solely a small group of conservative Republicans at the moment again such a transfer.

Within the brief time period, Trump may pursue narrower choices, like taking management of the Metropolitan Police Division or utilizing federal levers to strain metropolis officers.

For now, it’s a political risk. However in Trump’s second time period, the hole between rhetoric and motion has solely gotten more durable to foretell.

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