By WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was telling a Rose Garden audience about his efforts to quell violence in the nation’s capital when, as if on cue, his words were drowned out by the wail of sirens from passing vehicles.
“Listen to the beauty of that sound,” Trump said, grinning. “They’re not politically correct sirens.”
Coming as it did during an otherwise somber event to posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to conservative activist Charlie Kirk , the moment encapsulated how Trump’s law-and-order-at-all-costs push has become a centerpiece of his second term.
He’s deployed troops to Democrat-majority cities and directed federal officials, often with their faces obscured by masks, to round up people living