Brian Glenn, the chief White Home correspondent of Actual America’s Voice, praised President Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, DC, for making Glenn really feel safer strolling the streets of the nation’s capital together with his girlfriend, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Glenn made the feedback as Trump riffed about his actions to wash up the District throughout a bilateral assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I walked round yesterday with MTG. Should you can stroll round with DC with MTG, the town is secure,” Glenn quipped, referring to the Georgia Republican.
Since Aug. 7, Trump has ordered a dramatic surge of federal regulation enforcement personnel to deal with crime in DC.
Final week, the president took management of DC’s police and deployed the Nationwide Guard.
Tons of of criminals have been arrested by regulation enforcement since, in line with the White Home.
“We went from essentially the most unsafe place anyplace,” the president claimed Monday. “Democrats are calling me up, they usually’re saying, ‘Sir, I wish to thanks. My spouse and I went out to dinner final night time for the primary time in 4 years and Washington, DC, is secure.’”
The administration has additionally moved to take down homeless encampments and teased plans to pursue a criminal offense and beautification invoice from Congress when it reconvenes subsequent month following its August recess.
The president’s tangent got here whereas he was riffing about media protection of his Friday summit with Russian chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Earlier within the high-stakes White Home assembly, Glenn praised Zelensky’s apparel after scolding him in the course of the Feb. 28 assembly for carrying his military-style sweater. Zelensky modified up his wardrobe with a military-style swimsuit to keep away from a repeat of the chaotic Oval Workplace encounter six months in the past.
“President Zelensky, you look fabulous in that swimsuit,” Glenn advised the Ukrainian president throughout an Oval Workplace gaggle with reporters. “You look good.”
In February, Zelensky clashed with Trump and Vice President JD Vance on the White Home. Glenn publicly chastised the Ukrainian chief for his apparel in the course of the chaotic assembly.
“I apologize to you. You look great,” Glenn added.
A smiling Zelensky pointed to Glenn’s swimsuit and joked in response, “It’s the identical swimsuit.”
“You see, I’ve modified; you haven’t.”
The Oval Workplace erupted in laughter after the trade.
