President Donald Trump said Thursday he would join law enforcement and National Guard troops on patrol in Washington, D.C. — the latest in a series of high-profile photo ops by the administration to broadcast the strength of its crackdown on the nation’s capital.
“I’m going to be going out tonight … with the police and with the military of course,” Trump told the conservative radio host Todd Starnes.
The outing did not appear on Trump’s public schedule released late Wednesday. Asked for more details, a White House official, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told POLITICO they would “be forthcoming.”
Trump’s announcement comes one day after Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller made an unannounced visit to Union Station to feed National Guard troops burgers. That event quickly grew chaotic when protesters in the train hall disrupted the event, shouting obscenities at the officials and calling on them to “free D.C.”
The president 10 days ago announced he was taking control of Washington’s police force and sending in National Guard troops in an attempt to tamp down on crime and ugliness in the city.
A supermajority of the city’s residents oppose Trump controlling law enforcement in the city, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll released Wednesday.
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