Trump's total failure in DC

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AverageOldGuy (2,844 posts)

Trump's total failure in DC

Trump’s stunt – putting FBI agents and National Guard troops on DC streets – is a failure from the start. It’s a big nothingburger. It’s not the streets on fire that Trump hoped for.

If you want to see clear evidence of Trump’s failure, watch the press conferences with the DC mayor and police chief. They are not expressing outrage about the FBI and NG personnel. Instead, they are talking about cooperation while, at the same time, going on with normal police operations.

Trump wanted DC officials to freak out, to pound the podium. Trump wanted DC residents to take to the streets, throwing Molotov cocktails, burning buildings. NOTHING has happened or will happen because everyone in DC from the mayor and police chief down recognizes Trump’s move to be a stunt, a shadow-puppet theater, a big nothing . . . all staged by Trump in hopes of prompting riots.

Furthermore, we all know Trump pulled this stunt in an attempt to draw public attention away from (1) the declining economy, (2) his coming failure in negotiating with Putin about Obama, and (3) the Epstein affair, which will not go away and which just may eventually sink Trump.

My daughter is an attorney living on Capitol Hill. She reported the following today.

Yes, there are FBI agents clearly identifiable because they cruise around in black SUVs or black sedans, all with federal government license plates. They monitor the DC police radio and when they hear an arrest in progress, they run to the scene so they can get on camera “assisting” the DC police.

Smoking weed. Marijuana possession and use is legal in DC provided you possess a small amount, do not sell weed, and use it only for personal consumption. In residential neighborhoods – especially the older DC neighborhoods made up of row houses – it is common for people to sit on their front stoop in the evening, visiting with neighbors, and smoking weed. Over the past two days, FBI agents have freaked out and tried to arrest people for sitting on their front stoop smoking weed. The FBI agents were told to **** off, were informed about the DC law, and they left with their tails between their legs.

The churches. DC streets are crowded. In DC are several very large, well-attended churches, most of them Black churches although a couple of white churches have the same issue: Parking. So, on Sundays, at church time, parking is permitted on both sides of the streets around these large churches, and when church is out, no one interferes with those leaving church. Except this past Sunday, when at one big Black church, a couple of genius FBI agents blocked off the streets and tried to ticket drivers leaving the church and were eventually sent packing after church members explained the local customs and told – not asked – the FBI agents to get the hell out of the neighborhood.

Brown people. Reports are now circulating that the FBI agents are stopping cars with brown people driving or in the car. They demand ID, ask about immigration status, and generally harass people.

800 National Guardsmen. Everyone knows that, with 800 troops coming in, at any given time, there will NOT be 800 Guardsmen on the streets. To conduct 24-hour operations, they will have to work in shifts of about 200 while the other 600 are either off duty or are working on housekeeping chores. At least 25% of the 800 will never set foot on a DC street because their job is to support the other troops – cooks, medics, vehicle mechanics, personnel and finance clerks, and the like.

Face it, this deployment to DC is nothing but a stupid Trump stunt that he has dreamed of since his first term. The reaction by the DC leadership and residents is not what Trump expected and he doesn’t know what to do. But his halfwit, knuckle-dragging, drooling MAGAt supporters just love it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220556558

More DUmmie blah blah blah

[SVPete]

AverageOldGuy (2,844 posts)

Trump's total failure in DC

Trump’s stunt – putting FBI agents and National Guard troops on DC streets – is a failure from the start. It’s a big nothingburger. It’s not the streets on fire that Trump hoped for.

Stupidly false premise, stupidly false conclusion. The rest is just Prog- .

[DLR Pyro]

If you want to see clear evidence of Trump’s failure, watch the press conferences with the DC mayor and police chief. They are not expressing outrage about the FBI and NG personnel. Instead, they are talking about cooperation while, at the same time, going on with normal police operations.

So in the DUmmie's world, cooperation and normal operations are considered to be a failure?

[SVPete]

So in the DUmmie's world, cooperation and normal operations are considered to be a failure?

Yes, since AverageOldGuy's premise is, It’s not the streets on fire that Trump hoped for.

[Carl]

The stupid shit they convince themselves of.

[SVPete]

Flipping the script, the real meaning of AverageOldGuy's post is that DU-grade Proggies are POed that the Resistance-Riots they desired have not happened and AverageOldGuy's post is a smokescreen for their disappointed rage.

[SVPete]

Meanwhile in Realityville ...

National Guard troops spotted in Washington DC as Trump launches crackdown on street crime

https://www.foxnews.com/us/national-guard-troops-spotted-washington-d-c-trump-launches-crackdown-street-crime

On Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser met with federal officials to discuss coordination and strategy for the federal law enforcement presence.

"What I’m focused on is the federal surge and how to make the most of the additional officer support that we have," she told reporters, FOX D.C. reported. "We have the best in the business in MPD Chief Pamela Smith to lead that effort and to make sure that the men and women who are coming from federal law enforcement are being well-used and that if there’s National Guard here they’re being well-used."
...
On the first day of the crackdown, federal and local authorities made 23 arrests, including suspects wanted for murder, gun offenses and other crimes.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said some of those arrested had charges for homicide, weapons violations, lewd acts, and stalking. Six illegal firearms were also seized, she added.

"These are just a few examples — we are just getting started. Federal partners joined local police and arrested 23 in total," FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X. "When you let good cops be cops they can clean up our streets and do it fast. More to come. Your nation’s Capital WILL be safe again."

My emphasis.

[Old n Grumpy]

Now that they’ve made arrests, they need to prosecute them and give them some jail time and keep them off the street not just turn them loose

[SVPete]

Flushing out into the open the moronically-Prog judges hindering the punishment of criminals would be good and might be one of Trump's purposes.

[zeitgeist]

struggle4progress (123,945 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 06:48 AM
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Fact-checking claims about DC homicides
Aug 12, 2025 11:42 AM EDT

President Donald Trump said Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is higher than “the worst places on Earth” ...

The chart Trump displayed was first shared Aug. 6 on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.” Trump didn’t mention that the data in it is from 2023. Since then, the district’s homicide rate has fallen considerably. The rate was not the worst in the world — then or now ...

The Department of Justice noted ... in a Jan. 3 press release ... “Violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years” ...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trumps-claims-about-homicides-in-d-c

and this priceless reply...(BOLD ADDED FOR EMPHASIS)

DUU (46 posts)
1. Makes you wonder if DOGE is really Dept of Generate Evidence
Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 06:55 AM
It is hard to believe almost any gov statistics.

But…If you’re visiting DC, please be situationally aware, like any urban area, serious trouble can happen quickly.
I know 2 people who have died there.

Link:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220556936

 

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Trump wanted DC residents to take to the streets, throwing Molotov cocktails, burning buildings. NOTHING has happened or will happen because everyone in DC from the mayor and police chief down recognizes Trump’s move to be a stunt, a shadow-puppet theater, a big nothing . . . all staged by Trump in hopes of prompting riots.

No, you see, because Trump is operating on the belief that a strong law enforcement presence deters such behaviors.

[SVPete]

struggle4progress (123,945 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 06:48 AM

Fact-checking claims about DC homicides
Aug 12, 2025 11:42 AM EDT

President Donald Trump said Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is higher than “the worst places on Earth” ...

The chart Trump displayed was first shared Aug. 6 on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.” Trump didn’t mention that the data in it is from 2023. Since then, the district’s homicide rate has fallen considerably. The rate was not the worst in the world — then or now ...

I'm not going to do the DDGing to see if Trump was literally correct with "in the world" or indulging in hyperbole, which he sometimes does. Howzabout how WashDC fits nationally?

Which cities have the highest murder rates?

Which cities have the highest murder rates?

Which large cities have the highest homicide rates?
The top five homicide rates among large population centers —  those with more than a million residents — were the cities of:

1. Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)

2. St. Louis, Missouri (St. Louis city)

3. Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore city)

4. Washington, DC, (District of Columbia, DC)

5. Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County).

A bit farther down the article is a chart giving the murders per 100K population. WashDC's rate is 35.9 murders per 100K, very similar to St. Louis and Baltimore. There is a significant drop in the rate from WashDC to #5, Birmingham.

This is 2023 data, which may be as current as is available. The article is dated July 11, 2025. As for the claim it improved in 2024 and so far in 2025, DC police leaders have been fudging the data, so reality may be that 2024 and 2025 so far were worse than 2023. That DC police leaders have been fudging the data is a clear sign that this is likely.