Three weeks after deploying the National Guard and federal agents to Washington, DC, the president took to social media to triumphantly declare the capital a “CRIME FREE ZONE”. To promote his crackdown, he made a show of dining publicly at an upscale seafood restaurant a block away from the White House, and urged Washingtonians to frolic in the newfound safety of their city. “We’re standing right in the middle of DC, which over the last year was a very unsafe place”, he remarked. “Now it’s got virtually no crime.”