Trump suggests federal government take over DC if local leaders 'can't do the job'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : Trump has said he gets along "great" with Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), who has called D.C. "a world-class city.
60% : Trump on Friday added that he wants to "have a capital that can be the talk of the world.
51% : " Trump has previously raised the idea of controlling the district, which is governed by a council of elected representatives and a mayor.
41% : President Trump on Friday suggested that the federal government could take over Washington, D.C., if the national capital's administration "can't do the job" as he pursues making the district "the talk of the world.
35% : " When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron visited the White House in recent weeks, Trump said, he "had the route run" so the world leaders avoided seeing tents, graffiti or potholes.
29% : We're cleaning up this great capital, and we're not going to have crime and we're not going to stand for crime, and we're going to take the graffiti down and we're already taken to tents down there," Trump said in a speech on "law and order" at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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