WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday (Aug 21) visited police and troops he has deployed within the US capital in what he calls a crackdown on crime, saying they had been going to “keep right here for some time”.
Trump ordered lots of of members of the Guard, a reserve power, to deploy in Washington final week vowing to “take our capital again”, regardless of protests by some residents and statistics displaying violent offenses falling.
“We’ll make it protected, and we will then go on to different locations, however we will keep right here for some time. We wish to make this positively good,” he mentioned outdoors a US Park Police facility in Washington.
The 79-year-old Republican was surrounded by legislation enforcement from numerous native and federal companies in addition to Nationwide Guard troops.
Earlier on Thursday he advised he would go on patrol with police and the army, however as a substitute he made a brief speech and gave out pizzas and hamburgers.
“Everyone feels protected,” Trump mentioned, including that he plans to get the capital “mounted up bodily”.
“One of many issues we will be redoing is your parks. I am excellent at grass, as a result of I’ve a number of golf programs far and wide. I do know extra about grass than any human being,” he added.
