President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to send active-duty military personnel into America’s third-largest city to quell what he described as out-of-control crime at the hands of a liberal mayor and Democratic-run city and state governments.
Speaking in the Oval Office during a question-and-answer session with reporters alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Trump was boasting of positive crime numbers in the District of Columbia since he seized control of the capital’s police department earlier this month.
He claimed the national guard soldiers tasked with patrolling some of Washington had been doing an “incredible job working with the police” and said his solution for the capital — uniformed soldiers and roving patrols of federal agents who have largely been conducting immigration arrests of delivery drivers according to government statistics — would soon be sent to “another location” to “make it safe.”
“We’re going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out, probably next that’ll be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough,” Trump said.
He then claimed that the Windy City’s Black population, including “African American ladies, beautiful ladies,” were “screaming” for him to “please” come to Chicago.
