Governor Tim Walz’s daughter is making headlines for trash-talking President Trump’s latest law-and-order move: the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police force.
She didn’t hold back…
In a profanity-laced TikTok video, Hope Walz, 24, mocked the president’s decision to bring in 800 National Guard troops and assert federal control over D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.
She called it “Trump’s bitch baby wussy scaredy-cat behavior in D.C.”
Tampon Tim's daughter says that Trump calling in the National Guard to crack down on crime in DC is "bitch baby, wussy, scaredy-cat behavior" because he wants to lock up "people that aren't rich and White and men."
We were seriously spared…pic.twitter.com/bFGmipVJ3U
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 13, 2025
Trump invokes Home Rule Act to stop ‘bloodthirsty criminals’
Walz is referring to Trump invoking his authority under the Home Rule Act to temporarily seize control of the city’s policing, saying it was necessary to stop “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” in the nation’s capital.
Trump says the city has been overtaken by “violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.”
While the D.C. Police Union has backed the plan, citing officer shortages, Democratic leaders have denounced it as “unsettling and unprecedented.”
Walz says U.S. has long targeted the marginalized
Walz told her followers the U.S. has “always been like one form or another of… locking up people that aren’t like rich and white and men,” and claimed D.C.’s crime rate is “at the lowest it’s been in 30 years.”
She also recommended people get educated on the topic and suggested reading “The New Jim Crow“ by Michelle Alexander and “Locking Up Our Own“ by James Forman Jr. — books that examine systemic racism and mass incarceration.
White House crime data tells a different story
Walz is not alone in citing that D.C.’s crime rate is at the lowest it’s been in 30 years — but the White House paints a different picture.
In 2024, Washington, D.C. had the fourth-highest homicide rate in the nation at 27.3 per 100,000 residents — nearly six times higher than New York City and surpassing cities like Chicago and Atlanta, according to the White House.
The White House adds that carjackings have spiked 547% since 2018, and the murder rate is roughly three times higher than Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than Havana, Cuba.
Accusations of cooked crime stats
Those “crime is down” claims have also been clouded by allegations that the Metropolitan Police Department manipulated crime reports to make the city appear safer.
In July, 3rd District Commander Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave amid an investigation into whether he falsified statistics.
“The department is reporting that in 2024, crime went down 35% — violent crime – and another 25% through August of this year. That is preposterous to suggest that cumulatively we’ve seen 60-plus percent drops in violent crime from where we were in ’23, because we’re out on the street. We know the calls we’re responding to,” DC Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton told NBC News.
The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment on his daughter’s remarks.
Jenna Gloeb
Jenna Gloeb is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, media producer, public speaker, and screenwriter. Most recently, she worked as a reporter and on-air host for CCX Media. Jenna is a Minnesota native and resides in the Twin Cities with her husband, son, daughter, and two dogs.
