11/08/2025
US President Trump 🇺🇸 wrote Sunday that people who are homeless should be moved out of Washington, D.C., “IMMEDIATELY” and relocated “FAR” away, as he hints at more aggressive policing in the nation’s capital and suggests putting the city under federal control.
The Trump administration announced last week it had boosted the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C., after the alleged assault of a former DOGE staffer. In a series of Truth Social posts over the weekend, the president suggested he may take further action, announcing a Monday morning press conference he said would “involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital.”
Mr. Trump’s possible next steps remain unclear. He likely doesn’t have the authority to fully federalize the capital city — unless Congress repeals a 1973 law that gave the city’s residents the power to elect their own mayor and city council. He can temporarily take over the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department if he “determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for federal purposes,” but it’s not clear that the legal conditions are met.
“There will be no ’MR. NICE GUY. We want our Capital BACK,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Sunday, adding a few hours later, “Before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the World. It will soon be that again.”