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President Donald Trump on Thursday hosted a cabinet meeting at the White House, highlighting his administration’s accomplishments over the past 12 months and celebrating a drop in crime nationwide.
“I want to thank my entire cabinet for 12 months of unprecedented achievements,” the president said.
President Trump said that murder rates in America had dropped significantly.
“It was just announced that the murder rate in our country saw the biggest drop ever recorded,” he noted. “It’s at the lowest level in 125 years…and the crime is way down, and one of the reasons is because we’ve taken a lot of bad people and gotten them out of our country.”
Additionally, the president said that “zero illegal aliens” had been admitted into the United States over the past eight months.
As far as the plummeting murder rate, President Trump is correct: it has been dropping dramatically since he took office last January.
According to the Council on Criminal Justice, the rate of reported homicides nationwide was 21 percent lower in 2025 than in 2024. Additionally, the 2025 homicide rate was 44 percent below the highest peak in the last eight years (2021).
And according to a report from Axios last week, President Trump’s comment about the murder rate being at a 125-year low seems accurate. Per their data, the drop in murders across American cities likely hasn’t been this low since 1900.
Law and order have been hallmarks of the Trump administration since he retook office, and despite the violent demonstrations unfolding in Minneapolis, it has remained an important cornerstone of policy, even as it pertains to spheres of U.S. influence beyond the nation’s borders.
“I just spoke to the President of Venezuela and informed her that we’re going to be opening up all commercial airspace over Venezuela,” the president announced during the meeting.
He continued, “American citizens will be, very shortly, able to go to Venezuela. They’ll be safe there.”
This comes just weeks after the U.S. military conducted Operation Absolute Resolve in Caracas, arresting Nicolas Maduro and essentially seizing control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves.
The president asked his Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, along with the U.S. military, to have airspace over Venezuela opened by the end of the day.
Safe travel to Venezuela will be integral in opening its oil markets to the world. This is a project that the president has previously said will take about $100 billion, collectively, between the top oil companies in the world.
“We’re going to be working with Venezuela, and we’re going to be making the decision as to which oil companies are going to go in, that we’re going to allow to go in,” the president said at a previous White House meeting with top oil executives “…We’re dealing with the country so we’re empowered to make that deal, and you’ll have total safety, total security.”