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Donald Trump has launched a personal and politically inflammatory attack on Janeese Lewis George, describing Washington D.C.’s likely next mayor as a “Communist” and warning that he would block her agenda if she takes office.
The President made the comments on Truth Social after Lewis George’s Democratic primary victory placed her on course to become mayor of the capital. In the post, Trump claimed she would “empty the prisons”, make D.C. a sanctuary city, oppose ICE, defund the police and support other policies that he said would destroy Washington. He also said he would meet her, but warned that he would not allow the capital to be “destroyed”.
The tone of the intervention was seen as strikingly childish for a sitting President. Rather than setting out a serious federal position on crime, immigration or the limits of D.C. home rule, Trump reached for the familiar playground language of ideological name-calling.