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riversedge

(77,799 posts) Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:29 AM Aug 22

No patrol but Trump visits police, military in DC as he touts anti-crime push said he is considering sending

Oh my--Memphis next????

No patrol but Trump visits police, military in DC as he touts anti-crime push

The president said he is considering sending troops to Memphis.

By Lalee Ibssa , Michelle Stoddart, Isabella Murray, and Ivan Pereira

August 21, 2025, 6:19 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-police-military-patrol-dc-thursday-night/story?id=124853091

President Donald Trump met with police and military in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to oversee the surge in federal law enforcement and National Guard, who are responding to what he says is a crime emergency in the district.

Trump visited the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility in Southeast D.C., which is serving as the gathering point for all the agencies involved in the operation, thanking officers and members of the military and delivering hamburgers from the White House and pizza.

Trump left the White House in the presidential limousine -- nicknamed "the Beast" -- with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller Thursday afternoon to visit the facility.

"I just want to thank everybody very much for being here," Trump said. "I wanted to do this. We've had some incredible results that have come out, and it's like a different place. It's like a different city. It's the capital. It's going to be the best in the world."

The president spoke for several minutes, touting his anti-crime push....................

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No patrol but Trump visits police, military in DC as he touts anti-crime push said he is considering sending (Original Post) riversedge Aug 22 OP

Yup. Just a photo op. mwmisses4289 Aug 22 #1

Yes, troops are needed in majority black cities. sinkingfeeling Aug 22 #2

Maddow Blog-After boasting about plans to patrol D.C. streets, Trump fails to follow through LetMyPeopleVote Aug 22 #3

mwmisses4289

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1. Yup. Just a photo op.

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Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:30 AM

Aug 22

sinkingfeeling

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2. Yes, troops are needed in majority black cities.

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Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:31 PM

Aug 22

LetMyPeopleVote

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3. Maddow Blog-After boasting about plans to patrol D.C. streets, Trump fails to follow through

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Fri Aug 22, 2025, 05:31 PM

Aug 22

Remember when the president said he’d join “with the police and with the military” in the streets of D.C.? He apparently changed his mind soon after.

Remember yesterday when Trump said heâ€™d join â€œwith the police and with the militaryâ€ in the streets of DC last night?

That didnâ€™t happen.

He instead spoke for 10 minutes about grass, ballrooms, AI, and how much he hates wind power. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-22T14:06:11.143Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-washington-dc-ride-along-patrol-rcna226515

With this in mind, the Republican raised plenty of eyebrows on Thursday afternoon with an unexpected announcement on a conservative radio program.

Trump: "I'm going to be going out tonight [in D.C.], I think, with the police and with the military of course."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-08-21T17:18:42.647Z

.....As it happens, the speculation proved unnecessary. The Washington Post reported:

Some protesters brought pots, pans and spoons in their backpacks, prepared to bang them together and make their anger at Trump’s federal law enforcement surge known. ... But Trump never patrolled. Instead, he returned to the White House.

Instead of following through on his curious boast, the Republican spoke for about 10 minutes to a group of uniformed personnel outside a U.S. Park Police operations center in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood.....

Whether the federal officials, law enforcement personnel and National Guard troops on hand found all of this confusing is also unclear — but either way, those assuming Trump would follow through by going on patrol in the streets of the nation’s capital were left disappointed.

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