Benny Johnson on Washington, DC: “Entire neighborhoods, probably, need to be emptied, need to be bulldozed”
“Washington, DC must be swept clean”
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From the August 12, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): President Trump is doing God's work by re-federalizing DC.
By the way, DC was set up as a federal city. It's in the Constitution. It's how our Founding Fathers intended it. This these laws are still fully enforceable. They've never been rescinded or amended. President Trump and the executive through the House of Representatives controls Washington, DC. President Trump controls budgets, House of Representatives and Speaker of the House is technically and historically the mayor — the lead of DC. That still remains on the books.
What happened to DC, especially during the civil rights period, was that protesters that were bussed up here stayed here. The city was burned to the ground. This happened during massive riots throughout the 60s and 70s. Mass swaths of the city were torched and were never really rebuilt. And so what President Trump is doing is reasserting control of not only our nation's capital, but truly the seat of Western civilization.
Just one final little note here that kind of blends outside of the personal, which is that Washington DC is a representation of the work of your forefathers and mine. It is, by every measure, a very beautiful city architecturally. It is a sacred city. It is a sovereign place with the monuments to great men and women who've sacrificed far more than you or I could ever dream for this country. It must be preserved because the peoples of Earth come here by the millions per year in order to witness the success or failures of our systems.
And if you are a proud patriot and you love this country and you wish for it to be reflected honorably to the peoples of Earth, then Washington, DC must be swept clean.
I believe entire neighborhoods, probably, need to be emptied, need to be bulldozed. I believe that there are places that are so crime-ridden and so infested that you just need to — like you're just gonna have to crack down. You're going to have to do the job, and you're going to have to get the crime out of Washington. That's my personal experience.
Don't believe the bullshit that you hear online from some reporters. Oh, crime's down in DC. Well, my infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings. So, no, DC is not safe, and I can tell you this as a matter of fact. It is one of the worst, most racist, narco states and welfare states imaginable. In that neighborhood that I would walk every single day, racial epithets were screamed at us. Rocks were thrown at us because we were white people. This is a — this city is a sunken place. It is an unsafe place. I mean, if that's what happens to me, imagine what happens to somebody who's, like, visiting here from a foreign country. Right? It's totally and wholly unsafe and a scar on the face of our country, and it must be healed. And President Trump is going about that heavy work.