{"id":2478556,"date":"2025-08-25T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-i-really-want-to-be-appreciated-for-national-guard-crime-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:57:20","slug":"trump-i-really-want-to-be-appreciated-for-national-guard-crime-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-i-really-want-to-be-appreciated-for-national-guard-crime-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: &#8216;I really want to be appreciated&#8217; for National Guard crime crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-i-really-want-to-be-appreciated-for-national-guard-crime-crackdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2478556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports on President Donald trump&#8217;s statements regarding his efforts to crack down on crime through federal intervention in Washington, D.C., including deploying the National Guard. Trump expressed that he &#8220;really wants to be appreciated&#8221; for these actions as his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >governance expands federal control<\/a> over the city. He noted that most major cities with high crime rates are run by Democrats and indicated willingness to send the National Guard to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rise-in-violence-its-much-bigger-than-police\/\" title=\"Rise In Violence: It\u2019s Much Bigger Than Police\">republican-led cities<\/a> if needed, though he said there are fewer such cities with high crime.Trump also highlighted improvements in Washington, D.C.&#8217;s safety as federalizing law enforcement and allowing armed National Guard patrols. Additionally, he criticized several Democratic governors in states like Illinois and Maryland for opposing the National Guard deployments, contrasting their responses with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"...: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing ...\">ongoing legal challenges<\/a> from California&#8217;s governor. Trump further criticized violent crime in Chicago and rejected accusations of authoritarianism, insisting he is a sensible and smart leader rather than a dictator. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump: &lsquo;I really want to be appreciated&rsquo; for National Guard crime crackdown<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2212190\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> admitted he &ldquo;really&rdquo; wants to be &ldquo;appreciated&rdquo; for his crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crime<\/a> as his administration escalates its federal takeover of Washington, D.C. and considers deploying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Guard<\/a> to other Democratic-run cities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I really want to be appreciated,&rdquo; Trump told reporters Monday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3781077\/trump-defends-intel-stake-after-criticizing-socialist-democrats\/\">Trump defends Intel stake after criticizing socialist Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3780562\/trump-executive-orders-cracking-down-cashless-bail-flag-burning\/\">Trump signs executive orders cracking down on &#8216;cashless bail&#8217; and flag burning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3780476\/trump-wes-moore-baltimore-crime-national-guard-deployment\/\">Trump and Wes Moore trade barbs about Baltimore crime and National Guard deployment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump made the admission after a reporter asked whether he would contemplate sending the National Guard to Republican-run cities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sure, but there aren&rsquo;t that many of them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If you look at the top 45 cities for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/south-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Korean<\/a> President Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office, Trump argued Washington was &ldquo;now much safer&rdquo; than Seoul after he invoked the District of Columbia Home Rule Act two weeks ago to federalize the district&rsquo;s law enforcement. Then last weekend, the Pentagon started permitting National Guard members patrolling Washington to carry weapons after some states volunteered their own troops for the mission.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m embarrassed to say it in front of you because they don&rsquo;t have anything like this,&rdquo; Trump told Lee. &ldquo;Washington, D.C., sir, has not had a murder in 11 days.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-a-mess-team-biden-loses-track-of-20-million-covid-19-doses-report\/\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s A Mess\u2019: Team Biden Loses Track Of 20 Million COVID-19 Doses: Report\">executive order signing ceremony<\/a>, Trump criticized Govs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jb-pritzker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JB Pritzker (<\/a>D-IL) and Wes Moore (D-MD) after reports the administration is preparing to dispatch the National Guard to their respective states, without their approval, despite Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> (D-CA) suing over Trump&rsquo;s previous federalization of the National Guard in June in response to anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigration<\/a> raid protests in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3779436\/trump-white-house-red-state-redistricting-mail-ballot-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP LEVERAGES WHITE HOUSE POWER WITH RED-STATE REDISTRICTING AND MAIL BALLOT PUSH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Chicago is a killing field right now, and they don&rsquo;t acknowledge it,&rdquo; Trump told reporters. &ldquo;A lot of people are saying, &lsquo;Maybe we like a dictator.&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t like a dictator. I&rsquo;m not a dictator. I&rsquo;m a man with great common sense and a smart person.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump seeks credit for National Guard crime crackdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2478557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25237620195928.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[12047,61228,37479,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2478556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-appreciation","tag-crime-crackdown","tag-national-guard","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25237620195928.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478560,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478556\/revisions\/2478560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}