The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Friday that, and the Federal Police in Washington, plans to take similar measures in Chicago, another great Democratic majority metropolis. In statements to the press in the Oval Office, the Republican has described the nickname as a city of winds as “a disaster”: “When we are ready, we will start there.”
Trump ordered the deployment in Washington of 800 soldiers of the National Guard, but the contingent has been increasing in later days because, according to the Republican, the index of violent crimes in the US capital had shot up to such an extent that it constituted. “Everyone was being killed and docked … Many restaurants had to close for the wave of violence,” he insisted on his statements this Friday. Instead, it alleges, now “there is extreme security … restaurants are full of overflowing.”
Statistics, on the other hand, point out that although violent crimes had grown in previous years, they decreased since 2023. Last year, according to the data of the Department of Justice published in January. Some numbers that Trump considers completely “false.” According to him, they had shot themselves, but since their announcement on the 12th “87%have fallen.”
The president had already pointed out that it was proposed to extend the measures in Washington to other great Democratic majority cities. In Los Angeles, the great Californian metropolis, despite the opposition of Governor Gavin Newsom, to control protests against their immigration policy. Now he has made it clear that he is in the spotlight to Chicago first and then to New York.
“After that [de Washington] We will go to another town to make it safe. We will have a very safe country. We are going to do to our very safe cities. Chicago is a disaster, has an incompetent mayor, but we are going to fix that. It will probably be the following, and it will not even be complicated, ”he emphasized during an act to announce that the raffle of the next World Cup, which will be played in the United States next year, it will take place in December at the Kennedy center.“ The people of Chicago are imploring us that we go there… beautiful African -American women with red hats are asking: ‘Mr. President, come, come, please come!
The legislation allows Trump to maintain the deployment of federal troops and forces in the capital for 30 days, although the US president has expressed his desire to extend that presence. In a visit to the headquarters of the operation, this Thursday, he said that these troops “will remain for a long time” in the city, which in 2024 voted in 92.5% by the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.
