
If our capital is dirty our whole country is dirty, and they don’t respect us.
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If our capital is dirty our whole country is dirty, and they don’t respect us.

I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse all day long.

We’re just going to see what happens. We’re going to have tremendous success with what we’re doing.

Other cities are hopefully watching this … and maybe they’ll self-clean up and maybe they’ll self-do this and get rid of the cashless bail thing and all the things that caused the problem.

Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local 'youths' and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be…

I have just signed an Executive Order that will extend the Tariff Suspension on China for another 90 days. All other elements of the Agreement will remain the same.

I said, ‘listen, I want 20% if I’m going to approve this for you, for the country,’

They’ve been dealing quite nicely. The relationship is very good with President Xi [Jinping] and myself.

Other cities are hopefully watching this.... And maybe they’ll self-clean up.

This is Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to take our capital back.

We're not going to lose our cities over this. This will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C., and we're going to clean it up real quick.

And if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago.

This is a Biden prosecution. It’s election interference at a level that nobody in this country has ever seen before.

This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency, and it’s embarrassing for me to be up here.