President Donald Trump threatened Friday that his administration would completely take over Washington, D.C., if Mayor Muriel Bowser doesn't stop saying that crime was down in the city before the recent surge of federal agents and National Guard troops.

"I'm tired of listening to these people saying how safe it was before we got here. It was unsafe. It was horrible. And Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won't be mayor very long because we'll take it over with the federal government, run it like it's supposed to be run," Trump said in the Oval Office.

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Early Friday morning on Truth Social, Trump said , "Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN! … As bad as it sounds to say, there were no murders this week for the fi

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