{"id":19917,"date":"2026-07-28T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=19917"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:29:28","slug":"trump-trashes-blue-cities-at-michigan-rally-not-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=19917","title":{"rendered":"Trump Trashes Blue Cities at Michigan Rally: &#8216;Not Clean&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>\u201cThis is maybe gonna make news,\u201d said President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> on Monday at a rally in Milford, MI. <\/p>\n<p>The president, as it turned out, was teeing up the crowd for a rant about \u201cblue cities\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen [the Left] take[s] something over, it\u2019s always dirty,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe sidewalks are dirty. The people are, I hate to say this, not clean, OK? The curbs are loaded with you know what? This smell is terrible. I mean, I see it happening to cities, blue cities. They\u2019re all blue. They\u2019re blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has consistently tried to argue that America\u2019s problems predominantly exist within Democratic-run areas and that \u201cwe don\u2019t have problems with the Republican-run cities.\u201d He also tried to take credit for the current state of affairs in the District of Columbia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was filthy,\u201d Trump said. \u201cGraffiti all over the place. We fixed up 72 monuments and fountains, and we\u2019ve done an unbelievable \u2014 we took the graffiti off the beautiful marble columns. We have new grass going down. But you know what we did the best? We stopped crime in Washington. It\u2019s down 88 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president first deployed the National Guard in Washington in August 2025. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niskanencenter.org\/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing\/#what-kind-of-crime-fell-and-why\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysis from the Niskanen Center<\/a> \u2014 a nonpartisan think tank \u2014 showed a dramatic reduction in non-violent crime, but hardly any reduction in violent crime. The analysis found crime went down 24 percent overall as of June, rather than the 88 percent Trump claimed Monday, and violent crime went down by even less. <\/p>\n<p>Trump called for leaders in America\u2019s most populated cities to reach out to him to ask for federal government help. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they do that in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, we would take care of [crime] so quickly,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut we have to get called. I want them to call us. I don\u2019t want to say, I don\u2019t want to, they\u2019re running I want them to call us and we will get rid of the crime so quickly your head will spin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch above, via Fox News. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is maybe gonna make news,\u201d said President Donald Trump on Monday at a rally in Milford, MI. 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