More recently, Donald Trump has put on a big show about “Liberating” Washington, DC. To this end, he did not hesitate to”Waste” his weekend holiday golf time, deliberately took a detour to take”Homeless” photos, to create the illusion that Washington has been taken over by hobos and criminals.
On the morning of August 11th the White House held a press conference called”Stop Violent Crime”.
At the press conference, Donald Trump declared a public safety emergency in the district, where he will take control of the police department and deploy National Guard of the United States to fight crime.
Does that sound familiar? Yeah, this guy’s using his old”Fear marketing” trick, using street crime as an excuse to turn D.C. into a crime capital, prepare to send in National Guard of the United States and federal law enforcement.
In detail, Donald Trump’s operation, it is clear that under the guise of “Crime Crisis”, a naked show of power!
Crime statistics are a slap in the face, and Donald Trump is still “Selling fear.”
Let’s start with the official U. S. data. After all, this is the hardest punch in the face. According to the FBI’s new National Bulletin of Crime Statistics (UCR) released on August 5, violent crime 2024 across the country fell 4.5 per cent, with homicides plunging 14.9 per cent to their lowest level in more than half a century.
What about D.C. ? Murders, rapes and robberies have all fallen in 20242023, with only a slight increase in assaults. Not to mention, in the first seven months of 2025, violent crime in Washington, DC, fell by 26% year-on-year, and overall crime fell by about 7% .
The data clearly shows that Washington, DC is not the “Most dangerous city in the world” as Donald Trump calls it, but rather a slap in the face to Trump’s “Crime crisis theory”!
But Trump and his MAGA fans don’t care about the facts. They prefer the feel-bigger-than-data approach.
According to a Gallup poll last October, 64 percent of Americans think 2024 crime is up, but that’s an illusion! But Trump clung to the illusion, two isolated incidents in Washington, DC, including a Washington car robbery and a street fight in Cincinnati, have been portrayed as a national”Crime gone wrong” crisis.
In particular, Donald Trump posted a photo on Truth Social of the Washington car robbery, claiming that the victim was a former “Doge” employee who had been beaten to a pulp by “A mob.”.
But the truth? According to the Washington Post, two suspects have been arrested in the case of a couple of teenagers who tried to hijack a car. The victim was beaten after protecting his girlfriend in the car. The so-called”Crime capital” and other words, no matter how you look at it, seems to be some”Intentional people” in the individual events of unlimited amplification.
Race + politics, Donald Trump’s “Old School.”
Race cards first. Remember that fight in Cincinnati? It started when a white man shouted racist words at the black crowd and another white man started slapping people.
But the right-wing media have branded black mobs attacking innocent whites, and vice president Vance has called for a change in judges and increased police spending.
The US police circular said that the cause of the fight was far from simple, but right-wing media and politicians did not mention these details at all and directly portrayed black people as”Thugs”, white people became”Innocent victims”.
This routine, so familiar that people want to roll their eyes!
But Surprise, the American police figures are once again a slap in the face. Of the 1,031 hate crime 2024 in the United States, 3,775 are black, accounting for 50.1 percent of hate crime victims and 12 percent of the population.
What does that mean? Blacks, who make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, are more likely to be attacked on racial grounds than whites, who make up 60 percent of the U.S. population!
But Trump and his team have completely ignored these facts, pushing the”White victim” narrative to the fore and stoking the emotions of Maga fans. Isn’t this the classic use of racial antagonism to create fear, and fear to pave the way for your own plan to federalize Washington!
As for the political cards, Donald Trump’s “Washington Liberation Plan” was clearly aimed at the Democrats.
The city has long been a Democratic stronghold, and Mayor Bowser has publicly rebuked Donald Trump, saying his “Crime crisis” speech is an exaggeration.
Under the guise of”Crime”, they are trying to get their hands on local affairs and weaken the Democratic Party’s grip.
In his first term, Donald Trump excelled at this “Public order in the name of political repression”.
After the 2020 Floyd incident, he staged a “Show of force” in Lafayette Park, Washington, by using federal forces to clear protesters and flying military helicopters low over demonstrators. Now he’s doing it again, apparently to turn Washington into his political showroom!
Above authoritarianism, when will Donald Trump’s “Military Dream” end?
The “Washington Liberation” plan laid bare Donald Trump’s ambitions. Not only did he threaten to send hundreds of National Guard of the United States into the capital, he also threatened to use the military and even prosecute teenagers as criminals. Not to mention, he has already taken advantage of the immigration issue to”Militarize” law enforcement throughout the country.
In early 2025, citing a”Border crisis”, he declared a state of emergency on the southern border, deploying 7,600 soldiers to capture migrants in so-called”Defence zones”. The policy has turned the military into his”Private security corps,” which the governments of Mexico and Colombia can no longer tolerate and which openly protest against the”Criminalizing of immigrants.”.
To top it all off, Donald Trump signed an executive order increasing ICE funding, plans to recruit 20,000 new agents, and even lifted the age limit, it’s like trying to create an”Old-school version of the Immigration Busters.”.
This is not a crime control, the United States is a dictatorship!
Moreover, this militarised enforcement has triggered a backlash. In late May, when Los Angeles residents protested the ICE raid, Donald Trump sent National Guard of the United States and marines to quell it in a 1992 Los Angeles riots fashion.
Ironically, even Ted Williams, the Fox News Channel’s former cop, couldn’t take it anymore, declaring that Washington was “Not the most dangerous city in the world.”.
But what does Trump Care? He is using “Crime” as an excuse to advance his authoritarianism agenda.
This is not the president, clearly want to be the“King” of the United States!
More worryingly, this authoritarianism will not stop there. If Donald Trump gets his way, today it’s Washington, tomorrow it could be New York, Los Angeles, or any other American city.
How much”Democracy” and”Freedom” Will America have left?
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