President Donald Trump is deploying troops to take over the nation's capital.
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime,
bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.
This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back.
In a Monday press conference,
Trump said he was sending the National Guard to patrol the streets of D.C.
He said these troops would fight crime and clear out the city's homeless population.
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,
roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.
And we're not going to let it happen anymore.
We're not going to take it.
This is an unprecedented move to militarize Washington,
something Trump says is necessary because of the city's crime rates.
But critics say Trump is wrong.
Here's D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser on MSNBC on Sunday.
We are not experiencing a crime spike.
And city residents are already protesting.
Free D.C.!
Free D.C.!
Free D.C.!