Trump Warns ‘Not Playing Games’ in Visit to Federal Police in DC

President Donald Trump visited a Park Police operations facility to thank federal law enforcement officers he’s deployed to patrol the streets of Washington, DC, saying he expected their deployment to last “for a while.”

“We’re going to then go on to other places, but we’re going to stay here for a while,” Trump said. “We want to make this absolutely perfect, it’s our capital.”

The visit to the building in Washington’s Anacostia neighborhood appeared less dramatic than his suggestion on a radio show earlier Thursday that he would be “going out” with a patrol in a “secret” trip with the police and military, but nevertheless returned focus to his controversial move last week to surge US officers and troops into the nation’s capital and put the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control.

“We’re not playing games. We’re going to make it safe,” Trump said.


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