President Donald Trump exhibits crime statistics as he delivers remarks throughout a press convention within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on Aug. 11, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump introduced on Aug. 11 that he’ll activate a whole bunch of Nationwide Guard troops to be within the nation’s capital to take care of the difficulty of crime.
“That is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re going to take our Capitol again,” Trump mentioned at a press convention. “We’re taking it again beneath the authorities vested in me because the president of the USA.”