President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, DC, to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule.

Trump floated taking over the city under a Mamdani mayoralty, saying, “We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to.”

Trump weighs in on NYC mayoral race Trump took aim at Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, calling him "a communist." Trump also mentioned other candidates - incumbent Mayor Eric Adams,