Trump dines out near White House and says he’ll send troops to another US city
The US president made a surprise visit to a Washington restaurant to showcase his law enforcement crackdown
US President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy federal troops to another US city, as he made a surprise visit to a Washington DC restaurant in a bid to argue his federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement is working.
“We’ll announce it probably tomorrow, and it’s going to be something where we will do like we did here,” Trump told reporters Tuesday outside Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, an upscale surf and turf restaurant near the White House.
Trump has claimed Washington is now effectively a “crime-free zone” after he placed the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deployed National Guard troops to the capital to crack down on what he had cast as rampant lawlessness and violence.
The announcement came as crime rates were falling in the city, with the Justice Department reporting in January that violent offences had fallen to a 30-year low in 2024.