Trump’s New York police rally showed a full detachment from reality

Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese · Aug 16, 2026 · 19m

Donald Trump stepped back into public view at the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City, New York, for an event promoted as the release of the FBI's 2025 Crime Statistics Report. What followed was not a serious address about public safety. It was a campaign rally built around praise, grievance, division, and lies. He took credit for crime trends that began before he returned to office, attacked Democrats and the press, encouraged law enforcement officers to boo political opponents and journalists, and drifted into a disturbing fixation on "young, beautiful girls" in the White House…