Results: Trump’s D.C. – Night One
Kevin McCullough > Column
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Washington, D.C., hasn’t been “the safest city in America” in a long time. For years, the nation’s capital has been drowning in an unholy mix of rising murders, open-air drug markets, roving carjackers, and a homelessness crisis that city leaders somehow decided to treat as a permanent fixture instead of a solvable problem. Residents have grown used to it—grimly. Businesses have factored it into their loss projections. Tourists have learned to keep one hand on their phones and the other on their wallets.