JD Vance demands a decrease in crime of 35% in 9 days during the visit to the union station

A crowd of demonstrators chanted slogans while vice-president JD Vance thanked the National Guard on Wednesday and the Union police in Washington, DC.

Vance congratulated the police and said violent crimes had dropped 35% in the nine days since President Donald Trump had ordered repression. The vice-president appeared alongside the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and the deputy chief of the White House, Stephen Miller, each of whom pointed out the glaring demonstrators.

In recent years, Vance has described Union Station as having vagabonds, drug addicts, “chronically homeless” people and families threatening violence and attacking mental sick people in the public transport center.

“I think you hear these guys outside here screaming on it. Of course, these are a bunch of crazy demonstrators. But I will tell you, a few years ago, when I brought my children here, they were shouted by violent vagrants. And that frightened the hell of my children,” said Vance.

“I know that we have exchanged now, violent and crazy people who cry for children with some crazy liberals who cry out to the vice-president. But I think it is a very interesting business to do, because we want our people to enjoy our beautiful cities,” said Vance. “It’s your city. You should feel free to come and visit here.”

The expert returns the script on the DESMS pushing the statistics of the crime `picilies ” to resist the repression of Trump DC

Vice-president JD Vance and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth visit the national guard troops at Union Station in Washington, DC on August 20, 2025. (Alexander Drago / Pool / AFP)

Vance also clashed with a journalist who asked if he had evidence of the problem of Washington’s crime.

“You just have to look around-DC obviously has a terrible crime problem,” he said, stressing how the Ministry of Justice and FBI statistics “support it”.

“Simply talk to a resident of this city, this beautiful and big American city,” said Vance. “We hear these people outside by shouting ‘free dc’ leave anarchy free.”

“It is a little weird that we have a bunch of old whites, mainly whites, who protest against the policies that ensure the safety of people when they have never felt danger in all their lives,” added the vice-president.

Miller was even more frank, describing many demonstrators such as “elderly” and “over 90 years”.

The expert returns the script on the DESMS pushing the statistics of the crime `picilies ” to resist the repression of Trump DC

“We are not going to let the Communists destroy a large American city, not to mention the national capital,” said Miller, making fun of demonstrators like “stupid white hippies”.

Vice-president JD Vance eats a Hamburger Shake Shack with members of the National Guard at Union Station in Washington, DC on August 20, 2025. (Al Drago / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)

“For too long, 99% of this city was terrorized by 1% of this city,” said Miller. “And the voices you hear there, these crazy communists, they have no connection with the city. They have no family. They have not been raised in this city. They have no one that they send to school in this city. They have no job in this city. They have no links with this community at all. Those who recommended for 1%.

The repression of the Trump administration against violent crimes at DC has already aroused hundreds of arrests. The show of force swept away gang members, the suspects of theft and Immigration rapes. Only on Friday, only 52 people were arrested, including 28 illegal immigrants, while three cannons were seized.

The national guard troops are held at Union Station in the midst of the demonstrators, a few days after President Trump ordered a repression against crime in the city. (Fox News Digital / Emma Woodhead)

Federal teams also authorized dozens of homeless camps, and officials said that these moves had been made without confrontations or arrests.

The operation started quietly on August 7 with the launch of the work force “Making DC sure and beautiful” created by Trump in March through a decree.

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He intensified it on August 11 by temporarily seizing the federal control of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under emergency powers in the rule of interior rule, the first decision of this type in the history of the United States.

Michael Dorgan of Fox News contributed to this report