Trump revealed plans to deploy 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, claiming D.C. had been \u201covertaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals\u201d. <\/p>\n
But Meyers, and others, have been quick to point out that reality does not necessarily support Trump\u2019s apocalyptic vision of the city. <\/p>\n
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Seth Meyers has blasted President Trump for citing a string of false crime statistics during a press conference on Washington, D.C. (Late Night with Seth Meyers)<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see how detatched from reality this press conference was in the way Trump talked about D.C. like it was a dystopian hellhole in a steampunk novel,\u201d Meyers said, describing it as \u201cunhinged\u201d. \u201cSo clearly what happened was he fell asleep watching Fox News, rolled over on the remote, accidentally changed the channel to HBO, woke up, saw \u2018Mad Max – Fury Road\u2019 – thought it was still the news,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
Critics, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have pointed out that crime statistics suggest lawlessness in D.C. is actually down. \u201cViolent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low,\u201d questioning the president\u2019s brash orders,\u201d Clinton wrote on X Monday. <\/p>\n
Meyers said the takeover announcement as the latest in a series of statements where Trump tries to use numbers to back up his policies. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing is obvious about Trump, numbers are not his strong suit,\u201d the Late Show host told viewers before talking about the president\u2019s previous announcements on tariffs. Meyers said Trump reeled off a string of \u201cseemingly random figures that made no sense\u201d when he first announced the levies, and \u201csounded like an auctioneer with a concussion\u201d.<\/p>\n
The talk show host then said Trump had peddled statistics that were \u201cmathematically impossible,\u201d before playing a series of clips of the president talking about wanting to cut drug prices<\/a> by \u201c1,000 per cent, 600 per cent, 500 per cent, 1,500 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTrump should be fact-checked every time he talks about numbers,\u201d Meyers added.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Trump said he wants to ‘rescue our nation\u2019s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,’ despite crime declining for the past two years. (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Protesters took to the streets of D.C. Monday to express their anger over the president\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n![\"Trump](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Trump.jpeg\")
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