President Donald Trump seemed to hint at the possibility of taking his D.C. crime crackdown to Chicago.
“After we do this will go to another location, and we’ll make it safe, also. We’re going to make our country very safe,” he said when speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. “We’re going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago’s a mess.”
Trump called Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “grossly incompetent” and said his administration would handle the windy city next. He also said the people of Chicago were “screaming” for federal assistance in cutting down the crime rate.
“We’ll straighten that one out probably next,” he added. “That’ll be our next one after this and it won’t even be tough.”
While he said Chicago would be next, the windy city wasn’t the only place the president called out. He also said the federal crackdown could come to his hometown, New York City.
Last week, in an unprecedented move, Trump implemented a federal crime crackdown in D.C. and brought in additional law enforcement resources to clean up the nation’s capital. His approach appears to be working, as Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital on Thursday that there has not been a homicide in the city in more than a week, coinciding with the takeover.
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump threatened to federalize D.C. because of the city’s struggle to control crime. The Aug. 3 attempted carjacking and brutal beating of a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer brought the issue back to the spotlight, sparking national debate. The following week, on Aug. 11, Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C., sparking the federal takeover.