President Donald Trump on Friday touted D.C.’s “lowest crime numbers in years” following government intervention and said Mayor Muriel Bowser “better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long.”

“We are spending a lot of money wisely on making [D.C.] beautiful. It’s going to be beautiful again,” Trump said Friday during a press gaggle from the Oval Office while announcing that the 2026 men’s World Cup draw will take place Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center.

“We have the lowest crime numbers they have had in years. It is horrible to say, but I might as well say it. Zero murders in the last week since we have done this. It’s the first time in memory that that’s happened if you can believe it, how pathetic it is to even say it,” he added.

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