President Trump on Wednesday rejected the crazy idea from Democrats that Washington, DC, should be the nation’s 51st state and outlined his plans to further clean up the mess and gentrify the nation’s capital.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced on Monday that he is taking federal control over DC’s Metropolitan Police Department and authorizing the use of national guard troops to solve the “public safety emergency” in the nation’s capital.
“This is Liberation Day in DC, and we’re going to take our capital back,” he told reporters in the White House press briefing room.
In response to this crackdown, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a podcast appearance on Tuesday that Washington, DC, “should be the 51st state.” Previously, in 2021, Bowser called on Democrats in Congress to put a DC Statehood bill on Biden’s desk “within the first 100 days of the 117th Congress,” the Hill reports.
Trump responded on Wednesday, calling the idea of statehood for the roughly 68 square mile city that has a smaller population than the average US Congressional District “ridiculous” and “unacceptable,” noting that it would only give the Democrats more seats in Congress. Over 90% of the uber-liberal capital city voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in 2024, with Trump receiving just over 6%. Future Democratic state leaders would make DC’s crime, homelessness, and cost of living even worse.
Instead, “what we want to do is make Washington, DC, the greatest, most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world, and that’s going to happen,” Trump told reporters at the Kennedy Center before laying out his plan to rejuvenate the city.
The President also emphasized the importance of maintaining a safe, clean, and beautiful capital during his hosting of foreign leaders. When they see the ghetto, rotten city, “It’s embarrassing,” he said.
This is in addition to the many renovations that Trump is planning and paying for at the White House.
WATCH:
Reporter: How do you feel about Mayor Bowser’s level of cooperation and her choosing to advocate for DC statehood right now?
Trump: Statehood is ridiculous. We want to straighten the place out. Statehood is ridiculous. It’s unacceptable. The Democrats want it because the Democrats have, you know, about 95% in this little area. Even I didn’t get very much. They want that. They want to pick up two Senators, and it’s not going to happen. It’s not going to happen. And that’s the least of the reasons why, by the way, but that’s one of the reasons why. What we want to do is make Washington, DC the greatest, most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world, and that’s going to happen. I mentioned the word bones before. The bones here, the bones, we have the greatest bones. When you look at that Supreme Court building, I think it’s one of the most beautiful buildings. When you look at some of the buildings here, so magnificent. And everything’s good, but it’s just dirty and not properly maintained.
It’s not taken care of. Potholes in the roads. All of it’s going to happen very quickly. We’re going to seek a relatively small amount of money for fix-up, and we’re going to put it out to bid. We have great contractors here, great road builders over there, and we’re not ripping roads apart so they’re closed for four years as they redo the concrete bases. You don’t need that. We need a beautiful topping by a very talented asphalt-type person, somebody that does the job. We go out. You know, when I get contractors, I use great contractors. To me, contractors are— great contractors are very special. Like a great surgeon, like a great teacher, like a great nurse, a great contractor is very important. We’ll only use the best, and when you put a coat of asphalt on that, two inches of asphalt, three inches of asphalt, it looks brand new. You take all the garbage off, they recede it, as we call it, or different names, but they take the bad stuff off and they put the good stuff down. It takes not a long period of time. A matter of a few days, you’ll have a beautiful, magnificent road. You fix up the curbs. You get rid of— the medians in this town are just horrible.
I think to myself, leaders come from foreign countries. You see I’m with leaders all the time. They came in from India recently, and from everywhere. They came in from a war that we just ended, Azerbaijan, and you know, Armenia. We just ended the war. The two leaders came in. One of them said, “My Country looks better. The roads are better than,” you know we were talking about it. I said, What do you think? He said, “Well, the roads are better in Armenia than they are in Washington, DC.” It’s embarrassing, and I was asked at the last press conference, they said to me, how important is it you’re doing world peace. We’re going on Friday to Alaska, meeting with President Putin, Russia. How important it is it that the capital is important. I said very, very important. My father, said to me, when you see a restaurant and you want to go and you want to have dinner, and then you go up to the front door and it’s dirty, turn around and go back because the kitchen is dirty. It’s the same thing with the capital of the United States of America. If it’s dirty and unsafe, it sets a bad tone for the rest of the world. So, we’re not going to do that. We’re going to have this Capitol fixed up, safe, clean and beautiful in a very short period of time.
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