Trump Sounds Off On Bowser's Call For D.C. Statehood Amidst His Federal Takeover Over Crime

5 months ago

Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center, President Trump responded to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's call for statehood amidst his federal takeover to crack down on crime.

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00:00Sir, with President Zelensky.

00:02Thank you, Mr. President.

00:03Mary Margaret with Daily Wire.

00:04Two questions on D.C., if that's okay.

00:06How do you feel about Mayor Bowser's level of cooperation

00:09and her choosing to advocate for D.C.'s statehood right now?

00:12Well, let me do that one for you.

00:15Statehood is ridiculous.

00:17We want to straighten the place out.

00:19Statehood is ridiculous.

00:21It's unacceptable.

00:23The Democrats want it because the Democrats have,

00:26you know, about 95 percent in this little area.

00:29Even I, I didn't get it very much.

00:32They want that.

00:33They want to pick up two senators and it's not going to happen.

00:36It's not going to happen.

00:37And that's the least of the reasons why, by the way.

00:39But that's one of the reasons why.

00:41What we want to do is make Washington, D.C.,

00:45the greatest, most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world.

00:48And that's going to happen.

00:50I mentioned the word bones before.

00:51The bones here, the bones.

00:52We have the greatest bones.

00:53When you look at that Supreme Court building,

00:55I think it's one of the most beautiful buildings.

00:58When you look at some of the buildings here, it's so magnificent.

01:01And everything's good.

01:03But it's just dirty and not properly maintained.

01:06It's not taken care of.

01:07Potholes in the roads.

01:09All of it's going to happen very quickly.

01:10We're going to seek a relatively small amount of money for fix-up.

01:14And we're going to put it out to bid.

01:17And we have great contractors here, great road builders.

01:20And we're not ripping roads apart so they're closed for four years as they redo the concrete bases.

01:25And you don't need that.

01:27We need a beautiful topping by a very talented asphalt-type person, somebody that does the job.

01:35We go out.

01:36You know, when I get contractors, I use great contractors.

01:39To me, contractors are great contractors are very special, like a great surgeon, like a great teacher, like a great nurse.

01:48A great contractor is very important.

01:50We'll only use the best.

01:51And when you put a coat of asphalt on that, two inches of asphalt, three inches of asphalt, it looks brand new.

01:58You take all the garbage off.

02:00They reseed it, as we call it, or different names.

02:04But they take the bad stuff off and they put the good stuff down.

02:08It takes not a long period of time.

02:10A matter of a few days, you'll have a beautiful, magnificent road.

02:15You fix up the curbs.

02:17You get rid of the medians in this town are just horrible.

02:20You know, you're writing on it.

02:21I think to myself, leaders come from foreign countries.

02:24You see, with leaders all the time.

02:26They're friendly.

02:27They came in from India recently and from everywhere.

02:30They came in from a war that we just ended, Azerbaijan, and you know that, and Armenia.

02:39We just ended the war.

02:40The two leaders came in.

02:41One of them said, my country looks better.

02:44The roads are better than, you know, we were talking about it.

02:47I said, what do you think?

02:48He said, well, the roads are better in Armenia than they are in Washington, D.C.

02:54It's embarrassing.

02:55And I was asked at the last press conference, they said to me, how important is it?

03:01You're doing world peace.

03:03We're going to Friday, on Friday to Alaska, meeting with President Putin, Russia.

03:08How important is it that the capital is important?

03:10I said, very, very important.

03:11I told my father, said to me, when you see a restaurant and you want to go and you want

03:17to have dinner and then you go up to the front door and it's dirty, turn around and go back

03:23because the kitchen's dirty.

03:24It's the same thing with the capital of the United States of America.

03:28If it's dirty and unsafe, it sets a bad tone for the rest of the world.

03:32So we're not going to do that.

03:33We're going to have this capital fixed up, safe, clean, and beautiful in a very short period of time.

03:38Go ahead, please.

03:39In the back.

03:40Yeah, please.

03:41In the back.

03:42Yeah.

Trump Sounds Off On Bowser's Call For D.C. Statehood Amidst His Federal Takeover Over Crime

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