“Crime in the U.S. fell in 2025. Will the trend continue?” ran on the Christmas Eve edition of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. But after months of coverage bashing President Trump for sending troops into cities to fight crime (i.e. “Do Trump’s D.C. moves echo an authoritarian playbook?”) Trump gets no credit in reporter Meg Anderson’s good-news story about an issue he ran and won on — fighting crime.
Anderson’s written story (the broadcast version was briefer and somewhat less slanted) reversed the polarity of reality, pointing to the falling crimes rates as if they somehow discredited Trump’s actions and rhetoric, as opposed to the drops showing Trump’s tough-on-crime policy bearing fruit.
President Donald Trump has made combating violent crime a top priority in his second term. In August, he issued an executive order declaring a crime emergency in Washington, .D.C, and ordered the National Guard deployed to help crack down. The city experienced nearly a 28% drop in murders this year, according to the RTCI.
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