President Donald Trump announced the reopening of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday after more than six months of renovation work. He also delivered a roughly 20-minute speech addressing the renovation project, crime and vandalism in Washington, D.C. , before turning his attention to the ongoing election. U.S.
And now we don’t have that. Journalist Aaron Rupar shared the specific excerpt from Trump’s speech on X. Sports and political commentator Keith Olbermann subsequently retweeted the post, mocking the president’s remarks. However, the interpretation circulating online was inaccurate. Trump was not referring to deaths caused by drowning in the Reflecting Pool. Instead, he was discussing what his administration described as a decline in crime-related deaths in Washington, D.C., following its crackdown on crime. It was one of the most dangerous. We were losing, on average, to death three people a week, and now we don’t have that. “And I want to thank the National Guard and all the people from the military that came in, and they really worked very hard to make sure that some bad people had been taken out. A lot of them came through the open border from the previous administration.
Trump said, “We were losing on average to death 3 people a week While discussing a decline in deaths. At approximately the 17-minute mark the president discussed the National Guard’s involvement in the administration’s efforts to tackle crime in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump said: “Crime is down – could be 90 percent, 91 percent, and Washington, DC is one of the safest cities anywhere in the United States of America. We removed about 5,000 career criminals.
His remarks were therefore part of a broader discussion about crime reduction and his administration’s law enforcement efforts in Washington, D.C., rather than an account of drowning incidents at the Reflecting Pool.
