Despite his racist and xenophobic lies about the southern border and undocumented immigrants, Donald Trump didn’t make America any safer during his four years in office.
Trump touts his dangerously cruel approach to the border as keeping America safe, but the truth is on Main Street, Americans battled violence, disease, and the proliferation of guns on their neighborhood blocks during the Trump administration.
Learn more about Trump’s failure to keep Americans safe:
- Donald Trump wanted to defund the police.
- Trump’s budgets proposed cutting hundreds of millions of dollars for local law enforcement agencies.
- Trump’s budgets proposed slashing the COPS hiring program by nearly 50% in 2018 and 58% in 2020.
- Trump called for defunding the Department of Justice and the FBI.
- Violent crime increased during the Donald Trump administration.
- The national murder rate hit a nearly 25-year high in 2020.
- There was a 30% increase in the number of murders in the U.S. in 2020 compared to 2019, the highest recorded number since the FBI began data collection in the 1960s. The previous high was due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
- Violent crime on the whole increased 5% in 2020 compared to 2019.
- Aggravated assaults increased 12% in 2020 since 2019.
- Hundreds of thousands of people died of COVID during the Donald Trump administration.
- Donald Trump’s administration hindered gun violence prevention.
- Trump signed a law rolling back an Obama-era regulation requiring the Social Security Administration to report those who have a mental health condition to the FBI’s national instant background check database.
- Trump’s Justice Department issued a memo narrowing the definition of a “fugitive from justice,” only blocking gun sales to people who have fled the state in which their arrest warrant was issued.
Published: Sep 10, 2024