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.

We could run D.C. I mean, we’re looking at D.C.,” said President Donald Trump this Tuesday during a cabinet meeting. “We don’t want crime in D.C. We want the city to run well.”

P resident Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s weighing a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., spouting bogus claims about rampant crime in the nation’s capital, and hinted he could pursue the same with New York City.