Trump Goes on Bizarre Rally Rant About ‘Blue Cities’: The People Are ‘Not Clean’

“This is maybe gonna make news,” said President Donald Trump on Monday at a rally in Milford, MI.

The president, as it turned out, was teeing up the crowd for a rant about “blue cities”

“When [the Left] take[s] something over, it’s always dirty,” Trump said. “The sidewalks are dirty. The people are, I hate to say this, not clean, OK? The curbs are loaded with you know what? This smell is terrible. I mean, I see it happening to cities, blue cities. They’re all blue. They’re blue.”

Trump has consistently tried to argue that America’s problems predominantly exist within Democratic-run areas and that “we don’t have problems with the Republican-run cities.” He also tried to take credit for the current state of affairs in the District of Columbia.

“It was filthy,” Trump said. “Graffiti all over the place. We fixed up 72 monuments and fountains, and we’ve done an unbelievable — we took the graffiti off the beautiful marble columns. We have new grass going down. But you know what we did the best? We stopped crime in Washington. It’s down 88 percent.”

The president first deployed the National Guard in Washington in August 2025. An analysis from the Niskanen Center — a nonpartisan think tank — showed a dramatic reduction in non-violent crime, but hardly any reduction in violent crime. The analysis found crime went down 24 percent overall as of June, rather than the 88 percent Trump claimed Monday, and violent crime went down by even less.

Trump called for leaders in America’s most populated cities to reach out to him to ask for federal government help.

“If they do that in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, we would take care of [crime] so quickly,” Trump said. “But we have to get called. I want them to call us. I don’t want to say, I don’t want to, they’re running I want them to call us and we will get rid of the crime so quickly your head will spin.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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