President Trump suggested a federal takeover of New York City and Washington, claiming a "tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to."

Evan Vucci/AP “If a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to,” Trump said in an extended riff Tuesday in which he also criticized Washington’s local government,

President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, DC, to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule.