Photo: Trump Sends His Drug Cops To See the Sights in D.C.
Rather than targeting cartels, DEA agents are patrolling tourist areas, setting up checkpoints, and even cleaning up litter.

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents flank the Lincoln Memorial in August 2025, after President Donald Trump declared a "crime emergency" and invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act for the first time in history. DEA agents, along with the National Guard, were not targeting cartels—they were soon seen patrolling tourist areas, manning checkpoints, and cleaning up litter. The deployment transforms the nation's capital into a testing ground for a new brand of political policing.
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Bekah, Washington (D)C govt had failed to address the extremely high level of violent and property crime in the nation’s capital. Drugs are a victimless crime and would prefer they not be targeted; instead focus on those crimes that have actual victims.
The tourist areas should have some level of security.
https://www.thechesapeaketoday.com/2019/07/25/gang-attack-district-teen-gang-attacked-stomped-and-beat-tourists-in-attempted-murder-at-washington-hilton/
Oh no, not litter picking! That's just like 1940s moustache man!
Litter picking and nose picking does SNOT bother me, nearly ass much as the driving-democracy-into-the-shitter!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/reactions-trumps-tweet-about-law-violation
"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." Said Dear Orange DickTator.
"Wants to be a dictator. If you don't see it it means you don't want to," former Trump White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said.
Mussolini: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Shitler: “The good of the state stands above the law.”
Napoleon: “I am the revolution.”
Francisco Franco: “I am responsible only to God and to history.”
Shitler: “The good of the state stands above the LAW.” For emphasis... Of all of the quotes, this one most clearly shows that Shitler and Orange Shitler are Bros... Piss in a pod, who want to piss on us all, and turn us all into Pod People!
Let me get this straight, you’d rather them be out busting people for possession than improving quality of life and making tourists safe….
If Obama had done this, you’d have lauded it and declared victory in the Drig Wat