Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed that she had a “nice assembly” with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, who threatened to “federalize” the “crime-ridden” district on the marketing campaign path.
“At this time, President Trump and I had an excellent assembly to debate our shared priorities for the President’s second time period,” Bowser stated in a assertion.
The three-term Democratic mayor indicated that she and Trump agreed on wanting the nation’s capital “to be the very best, most stunning metropolis on this planet” and “replicate the power” of america.
“We mentioned areas for collaboration between native and federal authorities, particularly round our federal workforce, underutilized federal buildings, parks and inexperienced areas, and infrastructure,” Bowser added. “I’m optimistic that we’ll proceed to seek out widespread floor with the President throughout his second time period, and we sit up for supporting a profitable inauguration on January 20.”
The purported collaboration is a far cry from the incoming president’s earlier remarks concerning the metropolis.
Throughout his White Home run, Trump repeatedly vowed to “take over” DC given issues about spiking crime.
The president-elect referred to Washington as a “soiled, crime-ridden dying lure” in a December 2023 Fact Social submit, arguing that it “should be taken over and correctly run by the Federal Authorities.”
And through a February rally in Las Vegas, Trump pledged to “take over our horribly run capital,” describing DC as a “nightmare of homicide and crime.”
“We’re going to federalize it. We’re gonna have the hardest regulation enforcement within the nation. We’re not going to have any extra crime and it’s going to look stunning,” he added.
The 273 murders recorded within the district in 2023 was the very best quantity since 1997.
The troubling crime fee resulted in Congress intervening to dam a controversial replace to Washington, DC’s legal code that 12 months that might have lowered most penalties for sure violent crimes, together with carjackings.
The homicide fee subsequently declined by 32% in 2024, and whole violent crime fell by 35%.
Bowser and Trump beforehand met in 2016, forward of the president-elect’s first inauguration.
Late in his first time period, Trump blasted Bowser as an “incompetent” mayor over her dealing with of protests in DC after the dying of George Floyd.
The Trump transition staff didn’t reply to The Publish’s request for remark.