Trump’s DC Rhetoric Echoes Familiar Urban Crime Themes

Trump’s DC rhetoric echoes familiar urban crime themes

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has taken control of D.C.’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis.

Facts About Crime Don't Care About Trump's Feelings

“Facts don’t care about your feelings” is a maxim popularized by the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. As I don’t expect rigorous fact-checking from Shapiro and his far-right content factory Daily Wire, I was not shocked to hear a Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles defend Donald Trump’s militaristic federal takeover of the Washington, D.C. police as being “in response to skyrocketing crime,” despite the fact that the rate of violent crime …

In D.C. crackdown, Trump echoes decades old racist crime narratives

President Trump seizes control of D.C. law enforcement, deploys National Guard, sparking concerns of civil rights violations.

Trump’s DC rhetoric echoes history of racist narratives

"This president campaigned on 'law and order,' but he is the president of chaos and corruption," said NAACP President Derrick Johnson. "There's no emergency in D.C., so why would he deploy the National Guard? To distract us from his alleged inclusion in the Epstein files?"

Trump's D.C. rhetoric echoes history of racist narratives about urban crime

Trump's rhetoric echoes that of conservative politicians who've denounced cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention.