That's not a reason to sneer at people celebrating actual results under Trump. It's validation for those who called out the lies all along.Key facts on the crime drop:Homicides in major U.S. cities dropped ~19-21% in 2025, on track for the largest single-year decline on record and the lowest national murder rate since ~1900.
Violent crime overall (murders, robberies, aggravated assaults) fell sharply across big cities, with broader FBI trends showing 10%+ drops.
This built on a post-2020/2021 spike under Biden-era policies (defund movements, soft-on-crime DAs, open borders). The turnaround accelerated with Trump's return: federal crackdowns, deportations, visible policing, and accountability like firing these DC manipulators.
Your "warnings for months" about not fist-pumping low stats missed the point. The skepticism was warranted for pre-Trump numbers from Democrat-run cities that were notoriously massaged (reclassifying felonies, racial misreporting, etc.). Now we're seeing real enforcement exposing and reversing that garbage.Trump's team isn't just inheriting cooked books — they're auditing, firing, and delivering measurable safety gains (DC homicides reportedly cut in half in early 2026 data).
Celebrating dropping crime under policies of law-and-order, border security, and prosecuting fraud isn't naive. It's rational. Warning people against it while the manipulators get the axe just looks like reflexive contrarianism. The data and the firings are proving the optimists right.