UPDATE: Trump says he’s placing DC police under federal control and deploying National Guard
BREAKING: President Trump has officially announced a HISTORIC ACTION to rescue Washington DC!
“This is LIBERATION DAY IN DC and we are going to take our Capitol BACK!”
“I’m officially invoking section seven forty of the District Of Columbia Home Rule Act.”
“In addition, I am… pic.twitter.com/PFtbqhAqWm
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 11, 2025
Trump demands homeless people ‘immediately’ move out of Washington DC
US President Donald Trump has said homeless people must “move out” of Washington DC as he vowed to tackle crime in the city, but the mayor pushed back against the White House likening the American capital to Baghdad in Iraq.
The Republican president has also trailed a news conference for Monday about his plan to make the city “safer and more beautiful than it ever was before”.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, said: “We are not experiencing a crime spike.”
Trump signed an order last month making it easier to arrest homeless people, and he last week ordered federal law enforcement into the streets of Washington DC.
h/t patthedog
