PRESIDENT Donald Trump has set his sights on five major US cities after launching a crime crackdown in Washington DC on Monday.

Hundreds of National Guard troops were deployed in the nation's capital with dozens arrested in just the first hours of the president's so-called liberation day.

In his stern announcement, Trump said that he was going to "take back the capital" from crime and homelessness by federalizing the district's police force.

"I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse," he told reporters.

The president said the city had been "taken over by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" as well as "drugged out maniacs and homeless people."

He also indicated that the capital is just the beginnin

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