During his presser, Trump told lie after lie about crime in DC,

[surfered]

while Attorney General Blondi nodded her head in agreement.

I suspect that in about a month, Trump will use today’s actual lower crime statistics as proof his actions worked.

The consummate timeshare salesman.

[dalton99a]

1. Crime will drop by 1000%

[underpants]

3. 1,500#!!!

The cops will start doing the crime….oh wait…

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. He's hoping Patriots will push back so he can start a civil war, a small one

To excite his idiot followers to get them back on his side to forget about the things he’s done with Epstein et

[Codifer]

4. Which means no demonstrations or marches or protests in DC.

Some folks are going to be killed.

tsf has been wanting to shoot someone for years.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. He told them to shoot protesters in the knees, now he's just gonna tell them to kill them.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. trump still needs to learn the #1 rule of Public Speaking...

When you're done, get the F*** off the stage.

[uponit7771]

7. "timeshare salesman" 👈🏿👈🏿👈🏿 THIS!!!

[progressoid]

8. And the vast right wing media will parrot his lies without question

until it becomes truthiness.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. It bears repeating: the President of the United States openly lies in executive orders about easily verifiable facts.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[malaise]

10. The reason folks ask if he is dead yet is because he has been lying for so long

that we think he’s a rotting corpse

[surfered]

13. There is an odor...people are saying.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. is he dead yet?

[surfered]

14. No, damn it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Maddow Blog-Trump to deploy the National Guard to D.C., place local police under federal control

If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?

Fascist Trump to deploy the National Guard to D.C., place local police under federal control.
If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— hateGOP (@hategop.bsky.social) 2025-08-11T17:57:53.893Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-deploy-national-guard-dc-place-local-police-federal-control-rcna224303

As for how, exactly, he intends to do this, NBC News reported, “Trump announced this morning that he will federalize the Washington, D.C., police and deploy National Guard troops in an effort to fight crime.”

Trump announces he's placing the DC police department "under direct federal control" and deploying the National Guard in the city

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-11T14:42:53.334Z

As far as the White House is concerned, this is apparently the first in a series of related steps. After referencing New York City, Baltimore and Oakland by name, the president told the White House press corps in reference to his new gambit, “This will go further. We’ll starting very strongly with D.C.”

Crime rates in New York City, Baltimore and Oakland have already sharply improved, and while Trump has repeatedly insisted that crime in nation’s capital is “out of control,” in reality, crime in D.C. has dropped..

...

As for the latest announcement, Trump also took the opportunity to share some related thoughts about how his newly deployed forces would treat criminal criminal suspects.

"You knock the hell out of them. It's the only language they understand ... you spit and we hit. And they get hit real hard ... now they are allowed to do whatever they want" -- Trump on the police response to crime in DC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-11T14:50:56.398Z

As for whether any of this is legal, The Washington Post reported, "Under the Home Rule Act, President Donald Trump can assume control of D.C. police for 48 hours if he 'determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes.' The takeover may be extended with approval of the members of Congress who oversee D.C. affairs. Any request of over 30 days must be passed into law."

The presidential announcement, in other words, was the first step, not the last, and the legal and political disputes that will soon follow are likely to be dramatic. Watch this space.