JUST IN: Trump Announces Plan To ‘Liberate’ DC, Democrats Melt Down

President Donald Trump previewed his Monday press conference, where he plans to announce a “liberation” of Washington, D.C., from its crime-ridden streets and homeless vagrancy, much to the chagrin of his liberal critics.

His note on Truth Social was accompanied by photos taken from the presidential motorcade revealing littered alleyways and tent cities springing up in public parks, all of which he claims have been allowed to flourish under the city’s lenient liberal policies.

No more, Trump declared.

“I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,” he promised. “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”

Critics of the president’s sudden fixation on D.C.’s streets accused him online of seeking to muddy the waters around his firing of a key Labor Department official, but officials close to Trump say his reaction is a visceral one to seeing the decline of a once-great American city on a daily basis.

“What it really is is the president has been driving around D.C. and has seen the filth and has seen the squalor himself, and he wants to make it more beautiful and more safe,” a White House official told Politico last night.

Trump also warned, “The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong.”

“There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK.”

The Drudge Report, a formerly venerable conservative media outlet that turned on Trump during his first term, blared a headline about the “federal takeover” set to hit Washington, D.C., on Monday. Reporters cited the assignment of FBI agents to patrol the city’s streets at night as they assist local law enforcement in cracking down on the blight and crime endemic to the nation’s capital.

“The Drudge Report apparently doesn’t understand that DC is an exclusive federal enclave,” noted Office of Management and Budget official Jeff Clark.

“No Drudge, DC is federal to its core. So deploying federal agents to DC is thus entirely natural. It’s not proof of authoritarianism. That dog won’t hunt.”

Democrats also moved to denounce Trump’s “law and order” message, accusing him of shifting his administration’s focus while a review of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation still lingers.

“While Trump is making communities less safe and working to undermine cities at every opportunity, Democratic mayors have stepped up to deliver real progress and historic reductions in crime,” a spokesperson for the Democratic Mayors Association told Politico. “Trump may want to take credit, but he is the problem, not the solution. Mayors need a federal partner who works with them, not against them.”

A White House official said Trump has always prioritized law and order as a plank in his policy priorities. “This is why Democrats continue to be so unpopular among everyday Americans — they think the President of the United States cracking down on crime in our nation’s capital is a bad thing,” they told the outlet.