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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is weighing a federal acquisition of Washington, DC, giving false claims about unbridled crime in the capital of the nation, and hinted that he could follow the same with the city of New York.
Trump, who first raised the idea in February, presented the acquisition at the Oval office when a journalist asked him who believes that Republicans should support the next New York mayor race. Trump said “it does not get involved”, but it went on to hit the nominated Democrat Zohran Mamdani as a “disaster” and “communist” that would be bad for the city.
“We have tremendous power in the White House to execute places when we have to do it,” Trump said before revealing that he is already “testing” a plan to take care of Washington.
“We are thinking of doing it, to be honest with you. We want. We want a capital that works without problems,” he said.
“We could direct DC, I mean, we are looking at DC. We do not want the crime in DC to want the city to work well,” he said, also, he added that the mayor of the city, the Democrat Muriel Bowser, is “working very closely” with the Chief of White House personnel, Susie Wiles.
Bowser’s office declined to comment when asked about Trump’s comments.
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“We would direct it so well,” Trump said about the district. “It would execute so correctly. We would get the best person to execute it. The crime would be reduced to a minimum, it would be much lower.”
The violent crime in Washington reached its lowest point in 30 years in 2024 and has dropped 35% since 2023, according to the city’s metropolitan police department. That includes a 32% reduction in homicides and a 39% drop in robberies. In 2025, criminality rates have continued to plumn.
When Trump raised the idea for the first time in February, he focused especially on the presence of people not made in the capital of the nation.
“Too many tents in the Céspedes, these magnificent Céspedes,” he said, adding: “You can’t have tents in all its beautiful, its magnificent square and Céspedes.”
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The Congress already has the authority to examine the laws of the district and revoke them, but Trump has not yet offered information on how a federal acquisition of the city would pursue.
Some Republican legislators have pressed to dissolve the Law of the Interior of 1973, which delivered some of the powers of Congress on the city to the local government. However, it is unlikely that Republicans do it without a majority of filibusterae in the Senate.