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“We regain control of the capital today”. Donald Trump had long threatened to “take Washington in hand”, a city according to him “infested by crime, savagery, dirt and scum”. Following tobacco passage – among other reasons mentioned – of a former DOGE employee (Department of Government Efficiency) last week, and despite figures for decrease in Washington, he made his threat on Monday. He deploys the National Guard in Washington – “800 guards, to start”. The president also announced the takeover of the city’s police department. A decision which requires “special conditions of an urgent nature”, which the mayor of the city, the democrat Muriel Bowser, still estimated “perfectly unrealistic” this Sunday.
Assigning to the latter and its “radical left-wing lax government” the “invasion” of Washington by “gangs, homeless and drug addicts”, the republican billionaire strengthens its control over a fiercely democratic capital, which he wishes to reshape in his image. The effects are already visible: from the dismissal of tens of thousands of federal employees to the renovations of the White House (planned construction of a ballroom, destruction of the Garden of Roses to make it a terrace) including the erasure of the words “Black Lives Matter” from the center of Washington or the programmed return of the statue of a southern general unlocked in 2020: is underway. This operation is only the beginning, warned Donald Trump, who quoted Chicago, Los Angeles and New York as next candidates for a “cleaning”.
