WASHINGTON — President Trump praised DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday for cooperating with his administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to crack down on crime — before calling on blue-state governors to let him do the same.
“Wow! Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has become very popular because she worked with me and my great people in bringing CRIME down to virtually NOTHING in D.C.,” Trump posted on his Truth Social Monday.
“Her statements and actions were positive, instead of others like [Illinois Gov. JB] Pritzker, [Maryland Gov.] Wes Moore, [California Gov. Gavin] Newscum [Newsom], and the 5% approval rated Mayor of Chicago, who spend all of their time trying to justify violent Crime, instead of working with us to completely ELIMINATE it, which we have done in Was