What was the top story on The New York Times’s home page when I checked early this morning? A “News Analysis” titled, “In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo.” It’s all about how President Donald Trump’s work on everything from crime in Washington, DC, to fixing woke history at the Smithsonian to undoing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates all over the country is actually motivated by — wait for it — racism.
What’s the actual top story today? That Trump’s effort to combat crime in Washington, DC, is saving black lives.
On August 11, Trump announced “Liberation Day in DC,” wherein he would reverse the increasing takeover of the nation’s capital “by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.” He federalized the Metropolitan Police Department and deployed hundreds of National Guard troops to patrol the streets.
As you may recall, the Leftmedia was awash in stories and “fact-checks” about how DC’s crime rate was already falling and at a 30-year low. Ergo, Trump’s move was authoritarian and totally unnecessary. Never mind that the murder rate in DC, which Democrats want to be a state, is 500% higher than the average state.
Then came news that a police commander was suspended in July for manipulating DC crime statistics to make them look better. The Justice Department is investigating further.
“D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety,” Trump wrote on social media. “This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!” He added, “Until 4 days ago, Washington, D.C., was the most unsafe ‘city’ in the United States, and perhaps the World. Now, in just a short period of time, it is perhaps the safest, and getting better every single hour!”
That’s Trumpian hyperbole, of course, but crime has indeed fallen during the show of force over the last 10 days. There were zero murders in the last week. Carjackings, robberies, and other crimes are also down significantly.
Yesterday, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller personally visited and thanked some of the National Guardsmen by buying them Shake Shack cheeseburgers at Union Station. Their quintessentially American meal was sullied by a handful of protesters, who took to booing and shouting obscenities and other nonsense, like “shame,” “this is our city,” “we want the military out of our streets,” and “f***ing Nazi!”
Vance and Hegseth handled it like champs. At one point, Vance pointed at a booing loon, laughed, and said to Hegseth, “This is the guy who thinks people don’t deserve law and order in their own community.”
Miller took a different tack, stopping to tell reporters exactly what he thought of the protesters.
For too long, 99% of this city has been terrorized by 1% of the city. And the voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots, they have no connection to the city, they have no families they are raising in this city, they have no one that they are sending to school in this city, they have no jobs in this city, they have no connection to this community at all. They’re the ones who have been advocating for the 1% — the criminals, the killers, the rapists, the drug dealers. …
Most of the citizens who live in Washington, DC, are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations. And President Trump is the one who is fixing that. … So, we’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old, and we’re going to go back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington, DC.
Don’t hold back, Stephen.
That brings me full circle back to The New York Times.
While Trump is fighting crime that will indeed protect black citizens, here’s the “news analysis” of Zolan Kanno-Youngs:
President Trump … used language carrying uncomfortable racial overtones to describe Washington, a historically Black city, as a hotbed of “savagery, filth and scum” in need of “beautification.”
Over the past seven months, Mr. Trump’s words and actions have revealed what he sees as an ideal picture of the United States, in which the concept of diversity is taboo; the traditional power centers in America — white and wealthy men — get the benefit of the doubt; immigrants are suspect or unwelcome; and people of color must set their grievances and outrage aside.
In the view of his critics, Mr. Trump has used the power of the federal government to promote a vision of America that not only challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience, but also demeans and dehumanizes people of color.
Who’s the racist? The one who looks at a crime-ridden city and says, “This is terrible,” or the one who thinks pointing it out is racist? When Democrats cry that voter ID is racist, they’re implying that blacks have a harder time obtaining IDs than whites. When they insist that fighting crime is racist, are they implying that crime is the natural state of things for the black community?
Trump and Republicans don’t think high crime has to remain the reality. Democrats run virtually every major city in the nation and don’t seem to mind crime as much as they do someone pointing out that it’s bad.
