Posted on 08/25/25
| News Source: FOX45
Balimore, MD - Aug. 25, 2025 - President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance criticized Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other Democratic governors on their approach to crime within their states and cities.
Vance questioned why Democratic governors, including Moore, wouldn't want help on addressing crime issues.
"We want people to welcome us, to ask us... look at Gov. Pritzker in Illinois or Gov. Newsom in Los Angeles or Gov. Moore in Maryland. They are angrier about the fact that the President of the United States is offering to help them get their crime under control than they are about the fact that murderers are running roughshod over their cities, and have been for decades," Vance said in the Oval Office on Monday.
Why are Democrat governors angrier about federal law enforcement helping clean up their streets than they are about the fact that those streets need to be cleaned up to begin with? It shows a real sickness in the head."
Trump addressed Baltimore and Moore directly, calling the city a "deathbed" and saying that Moore "doesn't have what it takes" to clean up crime.
"Baltimore is a horrible, horrible deathbed... it's a deathbed. I know Gov. Moore said he wants to take a walk with me, he meant it in a derogatory tone, I said, 'no, I'm the President of the United States, clean up your crime and I'll walk with you.'"
Trump says he met Moore at the Army/Navy game, and that Moore told him he's "the greatest president of [his] lifetime."
"He came over to me, he hugged me, shook my hand... and every time I see him on television, he's knocking the hell out of me," Trump said.
"Moore is doing a bad job, Newsom is doing a bad job. All of their potential candidates are doing a bad job."
The comments came after the political rhetoric heated up on Sunday, as Trump and Moore traded barbs on social media.
On his Truth Social platform, President Trump responded to Gov. Moore’s directive not to talk about Baltimore unless he was willing to come to the city for a tour, along with an invitation.
On the social media site, President Trump warned to send in “troops” to Baltimore to “quickly clean up the Crime” and said he would not “walk the streets of Maryland.
However, President Trump’s comments went further and this time, threated to possibly withdraw funding for the Key Bridge rebuild effort – a project that’s already underway and Congress approved funding for previously on a bipartisan basis.
During his executive order signing on Monday, Trump also touched on the topic of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who turned himself into the Baltimore U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Monday morning.
"They think he's gonna be good for votes, and I think he's very bad for votes," Trump said. "These people are deranged."
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that Abrego Garcia will "no longer terrorize our country."
"He's currently charged with human smuggling, including children. The guy needs to be in prison. He doesn't need to be on the streets like all these liberals want him to be," Bondi said.Trump also addressed the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, saying that the police officer who called for the bridge to be closed should get a medal.