Fox News: On Monday, President Donald Trump suggested he may intervene in New York City. The comment came just hours after he announced a temporary federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police department and deployed 800 National Guard troops to the capital.
“I’m going to look at New York in a little while,” Trump said at the White House, “let’s do this, let’s do this together.”
While Trump has not detailed how a federal response in New York would work, his comments suggest the city could become the next focus of a broader effort to address what he claims are out-of-control crime rates in Democratic-led cities.
In remarks Monday, Trump suggested New York City may be the next target in what he called a federal effort to address urban crime. “We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem,” he said. “We’re not going to let it happen. We’re not going to lose our cities over this. And this will go further,” he added.
He added that he hopes cities like New York take initiative: “I hope they do a self-clean up.”
Trump has also previously threatened action if certain local officials gain more power. At a July Cabinet meeting, he referenced the potential victory of Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani in a New York race as another reason to “straighten out” the city.
It’s unclear exactly how President Trump could intervene in New York City in the way he did in Washington, D.C. His authority to take temporary control of the D.C. police department comes from a provision in the District of Columbia Home Rule Act—a legal framework that only applies to the nation’s capital.
