High-Crime City Leaders Push Back on Trump’s DC Crackdown

While President Donald Trump’s law-and-order approach continues to yield results in Washington, D.C., top Democrats are lining up to criticize his efforts despite presiding over some of the most dangerous cities in America themselves.

This week, federal authorities confirmed that over 100 arrests were made in D.C. just one week after Trump federalized the city’s police force and called in the National Guard to help stamp out violent crime. The crackdown was swift and popular but predictably, left-wing leaders wasted no time in blasting it as “provocative” and “authoritarian.”

Among the loudest critics:

• Maryland Governor Wes Moore

• Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin

• Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott

• Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee

• California Governor Gavin Newsom

But here’s the irony: these same leaders govern some of the most crime-ridden cities in the country.

According to U.S. News & World Report:

• Oakland, CA ranks #2 most dangerous city in America

• Baltimore, MD ranks #4

• Memphis, TN, St. Louis, MO, and Detroit, MI round out the top five—all Democrat-led

And yet these officials have the audacity to lecture President Trump as he steps in to do what they’ve failed to: enforce the law and protect innocent lives.

“Instead of criticizing President Trump’s popular, tough-on-crime policies, they should focus on cleaning up their own cities,” said White House deputy press secretary Taylor Rogers. “Public safety isn’t political it’s a top priority for every American.”

President Trump echoed those remarks during a press Q&A in the Oval Office:

“People are so happy to see our military going into D.C. and getting these thugs out,” he said. “We are getting people that have arrest records that you wouldn’t believe.”

He added, “It’s another reason why the Democrats lost the election in a landslide. They lie.”

But the gaslighting from the left continues. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee dismissed Trump’s warning about her city as “fear-mongering,” claiming her “comprehensive public safety strategy is working.”

Maryland’s Wes Moore went further, saying he was “embarrassed” and “heartbroken” for National Guard members deployed to the capital accusing Trump of using them as a “tool” for political gain.

The real embarrassment? That these Democrat leaders have allowed their cities to collapse into lawless warzones. Under their watch, carjackings have spiked, homicides remain high, and drug overdoses have surged. And yet they treat Trump’s enforcement of existing federal law as the real problem.

In Detroit, which ranks #5 among America’s most dangerous cities, Mayor Mike Duggan’s office insisted that crime “dropped” in 2024 ignoring the fact that federal agencies are already embedded in the city helping local police address gun violence. Even Duggan, an independent, didn't challenge the facts: Detroit needs help, and it's getting it.

The truth is simple: Trump’s D.C. crackdown is working. Criminals are being taken off the streets, and residents are beginning to feel safe again. Meanwhile, Democrats are more concerned about press optics and political turf wars than the lives being lost in their own jurisdictions.

“We’re not going to let it happen,” Trump said Monday. “And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore they’re so far gone.”

Gone but not forgotten. The American people are watching. And they’re realizing that it takes more than slogans and task forces to restore order. It takes bold leadership and the will to act.

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