Trump put the country’s capital under the federal occupation.
People participate in the rally against the federal absorption of the Trump district administration of Columbia on August 11, 2025 in Washington, Colombia District.
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Washington, Colombia District, no longer has a congressional office, does not control its budget and cannot pass laws free from the intervention of Congress. Now, under the Trump administration, the city is moving to Bantustan’s status. Turning to the fictitious emergency powers in accordance with the Law on the Rules of the House, President Donald Trump effectively federalized law enforcement agencies in the area, delegating the subway police to the DC Prosecutor General Bondi and the permission of the Defense Minister Pitt Hugset to mobilize the National Guard troops. The head of the drug control Terry Cole will have operational control over the Washington Subway Police Department as a temporary federal commissioner.
The Scho-Avalean force is clearly modeled on the raids on the brown shirts of the administration in churches, schools and jobs in Los Angeles to detain and issue undocumented immigrants. “This is the day of liberation in Washington, the Columbia District,” Trump said at a clumsy press conference on Monday. Putting his justification, Trump conducted a Fox News -style excursion through the criminal hell. “It became a city complete and complete lawlessness,” Trump insisted, even when DC feels 30-year-old low-violent crime and 26 percent decline More rates reported the middle of last year. Trump and his support for the acting staff of the administration, legal and security officials who divide the podium are all given to Washington’s image as a place where families and tourists are lucky to leave alive.
Trump has long been in the trawl to the fable of the capital under the siege of the group of immigrants and the violent houses of criminals, and social myths guided by the punishment fueled his public career. In 1989 he took out Ads on the full page in major New York newspapers To restore the death penalty in the state to execute due to the examinable members of the central park. “Koch said that hatred and confusion should be removed from our hearts,” Maga Magna Carta partially read. “I don’t think I want to hate these mags and murderers. They must be forced to suffer, and when they kill, they need to be shot for their crimes.”
Do not remember that, even thanks to Trump’s own reasoning, his doctor did not make sense: apart from the demand of the state -owned killing of innocent and unfairly detained citizens, Trump called on their shooting if the victim, while the horrific attacked, was not actually killed. Then and now Trump’s outbreaks are to create a spectacle of impunity in which state agents have the right to act within the campaign of Agitprop hatred.
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It was instantly understandable when Trump sought to describe the difficult situation of the police subway under “woke up” and “radical left” city government. The criminals “will fight until you pour them out,” Trump said. “This is the only language they understand.” Reshuffle Myth from the prosperity of protests against VietnamTrump said that the human rights activists he seemed to address the protesters during the Black Matter’s protests in 2020 – “I like to spit in front of the police, and they scream at them on their face, spitting in the face.” Some police said they would spit at the time – the participants of the rally, in turn, said that the police clapped them, but this set served mainly to return home that federalized agents would patrol DC in the face of maximum impunity. “You spit and we hit,” Trump said, claiming that in the past police confrontations, “you could see (police) who wanted to enter it. Now they are allowed to do whatever cholera they want.”
Of course, there was an amazing omission in the reflection of Trump in criminal life in DC. Trump and his floors brought as the largest direct attack on the DC police in the recent history of the city-6th uprising in the US Capitol, when the pro-match, breaking much heavier weapons than their own saliva, affected 140 Metro police members and the US Capitol. Five police officers died as a result of the attack. Apparently an unwavering Trump More than 1500 convicts pardoned on January 6..
This effect on the screen emphasized the brazen implication of most rhetoric Maga Doomster about a violent crime: it is invisible when heroic corpses are criminals and a terrible emergency that requires unprecedented federal power mobilization when they are allegedly carried out by non-white residents. Again, Trump was not remote. “The level of killings in Washington is higher than in Bogot, Colombia and Mexico,” he speaks about what you will be the worst on earth, “he said. He later added a bag to capture other scary centers of the third world into the roll, seemingly accident: “Baghdad, Panama City, San Jose, Costa Rico, Lima, Peru.” “Do you want to live in such places?” he asked the collected journalists with horror. If it did not make racial animus for its power enough, Trump added: “We will get rid of the slums where they live (criminals), and once again congratulated themselves, saying that it was not” politically right “.
The announcement on Monday also expanded Trump’s White House record that it pulls out federal air emergencies to consolidate the alarm. The border dispersal rested on the fabricated ghost of the “invasion” of the country, which was carried out by unregistered immigrants that commit more criminal terror. Last “Liberation Day” announced by the latest “Liberation Day” powers in accordance with the law on international emergency economic powers. None of these claims had a plausible empirical ground-grounded crime at lower tariffs than the population born in America, and the US economy is in no way like a crisis when Trump debuted in his wrong tariff set. At least, less relaxed national political press can raise the question of why, if all these aspects of public life are so harshly cataclysm, they did not cause the same fighters during the first Trump administration.
As in the legacy of January 6, the ghost of the national emergency is something caused – or fired – fired for political benefit. That’s why you don’t hear anything else Moral panic for pets This was covered by the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, in the midst of the 2024 presidential campaign; That is why the “caravan-immigrant”, which consumed hectares of the right lighting during the intermediate cycle of 2018 disappeared for the public The day after the election. The only difference now is that Trump’s second White House feels authorized to transform two -minute hatred into long -term policy directives.
But everyday life in Washington may well become an extreme constant federal occupation. Trump has already instructed federalized forces under the command of Bondi to dismantle the homeless camps and cut a wide flight around the city in search of cases to bend his muscles. Last weekend, Trump unleashed 5,000 federal officers at DC, including 120 FBI agents, as pre -viewing the following things. Reports of their work suggest the same abuse of power, which now becomes ordinary under the long siege of Los -Angeles Ice. As NPR reportsA small road scrub on Sunday created the predominant force, more and more terrible for the meaninglessness of its summons: “At one intersection, a minor road accident between the car and the moped brought at least two dozen agents working, some of the masks, and one that wore a rifle.”
In a separate incident, a DC police member, who participated in the Federal Operation Group, opened fire on a couple of armed suspects near Saturday-dramatic forces from officers who usually see through the subway cars into anything but in the way. Upon a Washington Post report“Investigation officers and the alcohol bureau, tobacco, firearms and explosives were at the scene, according to a law enforcement body who is familiar with the incident. The DC Police Department, which was instructed to detain and chase the armed people through the DC streets.”
This, which begins the siege, is ready to become a new normal in Washington – and Trump and his troops do not stop at this. When one reporter asked him what other cities could come under the power of this awkward police state, Trump, of course, pointed to cities that have large blue voice populations. “I will look at New York after a while to find out if we need to do it,” Trump replied, adding that such estimates would be determined, “if we do it in Chicago.” In other words, this administration goes to the fact that the hell it wants.
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