Claiming crime in Washington, D.C is “totally out of control,” President Donald Trump threatened to bring the nation’s capital city under federal control, and called for prosecuting minors fourteen and older as adults. Violent crime dropped last year by more than one third—hitting the lowest levels in decades—and this year violent crime is likewise down by double digits.

Posting a photo of a nameless, bruised and bloodied young man who he suggested was “beaten mercilessly by local thugs,” President Trump claimed local youths and gang members, “some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”

“The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these ‘minors’ as adults,” the President demanded, “and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14.”

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“Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see,” he continued. “If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore.”

“If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City,” the President threatened.

Washington, D.C. already operates as a shared jurisdiction, and Congress can vote to override the District’s ordinances. It would be unprecedented for any president to unilaterally take control of a city, even the District of Columbia.

The president later spoke about an incident of violence he said was against someone from his Department of Government Efficiency.

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Trump: “Somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt last night. A young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC. And either they’re gonna straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection of we’re gonna have to federalize.” pic.twitter.com/Sn8JMnbPIK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2025

READ MORE: Transportation Secretary Warns US Is Behind in ‘Race to the Moon’

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, currently serving as acting NASA Administrator, announced plans for the U.S. to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—but warned that America is “behind” in the global “race to the Moon,” despite having put a man on the Moon in 1969 through the Apollo program.

Speaking about a lunar nuclear reactor, Secretary Duffy told reporters on Tuesday that “this is not a new concept,” and it “has been discussed under Trump I, under Biden, but we are in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the Moon, and to have a base on the Moon, we need energy.”

Duffy explained that while some areas of the Moon are good for solar power, “fission technology is critically important.”

He revealed that the U.S. has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on feasibility studies.

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“We are now going to move beyond studying, and we have given direction to go. Let’s start to deploy our technology to move to actually make this a reality.”

Duffy also said that putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon is critically important “to be able to sustain life on the Moon to then go to Mars.”

He reiterated that “we’re behind,” saying that “If we’re going to engage in the race to the Moon, in the race to Mars, we have to get our act together. We have to marshal all of our resources, all of our focus on going to the Moon, which is what we’re going to do.”

Duffy also pointed to a July 31 directive, as ABC News reported.

“Since March 2024, China and Russia have announced on at least three occasions a joint effort to place a reactor on the Moon by the mid-2030s,” Duffy wrote. “The first country to do so could potentially declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States from establishing a planned Artemis presence if not there first.”

Some criticized the Secretary, calling it an affront to Neil Armstrong—the first man to walk on the Moon—to suggest this would be America’s first lunar mission. Tuesday is the 95th anniversary of Armstrong’s birth.

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Others called for the U.S. to spend more on health care, and others still urged building more nuclear reactors in the U.S. before placing them on the Moon.

“Here’s the question,” wrote economist Dr. Pippa Malmgren. “Should the first human institution on the moon be: A. A military base B. A mining or manufacturing company C. An institution designed to ensure that all humanity benefits from the abundance space is set to deliver? Intent matters.”

“It sounds crazy,” added Dr. Catharine Young, “but a nuclear reactor on the moon is key to powering long-term missions. The problem isn’t the vision – it’s that NASA downsized thousands of senior engineers, dismantling the capacity needed to do it safely. This is what happens when science is treated as expendable.”

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“We are in a race with China to the moon”: Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy says “we need to get our act together” when it comes to the space race, saying it is “critically important” for the U.S. to fast-track a nuclear reactor to the moon.

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— NewsNation (@NewsNation) August 5, 2025

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President Donald Trump has come under fire for remarks he made about undocumented immigrants performing farm labor, after claiming they do the challenging work “naturally.”

Trump has repeatedly flip-flopped on his position on undocumented immigrants working on farms, moving from demanding “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” to declaring accommodations must be made for them—in large part because the farmers cannot operate without them. Trump has called some undocumented farm workers “almost impossible to replace.”

Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday (video below), the President claimed that currently there is a program where these undocumented immigrants can get a “pass” to return to the U.S. legally after they receive “schooling.”

“We’re doing things that are that are very difficult to do and very complex, but it works really well,” Trump claimed. “We’re sending them back, and then they’re schooling, they’re learning, they’re coming in, they’re coming in legally. We have a lot of that going on, but we’re taking care of our farmers.”

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“We can’t let our farmers not have anybody, you know, these are these people, they’re—you can’t replace them very easily.”

He then went on to claim that “people that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’re just not doing that work, and they’ve tried, we’ve tried, everybody tried , they don’t do it.”

“These people do it naturally, naturally,” he said of the undocumented.

He went on to describe a recent conversation he said he had with a farmer, where he asked, “What happens if they get a bad back?”

“He said, ‘They don’t get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die.'”

“I said, ‘That’s interesting, isn’t it?'”

Critics blasted the president, with some describing his remarks as racist.

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“This was literally one of the arguments that slave owners in the U.S. used to justify slavery,” noted attorney Joseph M. Azam.

Economist Sky Marchini said that Trump is “inventing entirely new forms of racism every day.”

“Apparently, inner-city folks are lazy, but undocumented immigrants have indestructible spines. Amazing what a little economic exploitation can do for your posture,” wrote “recovering media guy” Marc Leunissen.

“‘Everyone has tried to get Black people to do menial labor in America but they’re too lazy so we’ve got to make the Mexicans do it, says THE F—— PRESIDENT,” wrote organizer and New York Times bestselling author Shannon Watts.

“‘They do it naturally?’ Where have I heard that phrase before? Oh, yeah! American History 501: The History of the South,” observed healthcare administration instructor Anthony M. Hopper.

“This is the same type of racist lie that says that black people don’t experience as much pain as white people, causing medical racism and leading to severely different outcomes for black patients,” wrote Cybersecurity expert Jackie Singh. “It’s stereotyping and racism, pure and simple.”

“This is so ridiculously racist and cruel. Yes, immigrants take jobs that American citizens will not. No, they are not ‘naturally’ suited to it – they’re forced to by our broken immigration and labor system. They deserve legal pathways and protections,” wrote Claudia Hernandez, a communicator for racial and economic justice.

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Trump on undocumented farm workers: “People that live in the inner city are not doing that work. They’ve tried, we’ve tried, everybody tried. They don’t do it. These people do it naturally. Naturally … they don’t get a bad back, because if they get a bad back, they die.” pic.twitter.com/HxXtKtIPLa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2025

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