Trump fact of the day

NY Times -   President Trump’s yearslong denunciation of London has reached a fresh intensity lately, abetting a torrent of social media hate directed at the city, mostly from the populist right, suggesting that its 9 million inhabitants live in a dangerous, crime-ridden cesspool.

Mr. Trump claimed in November that no one wanted to go to parts of the British capital because people were “being stabbed in the ass or worse.” On his flight home from a state visit to Britain in September, he told reporters that crime in London “is through the roof.”

Data released on Monday contradict that narrative. In 2025, London’s homicide rate fell to the lowest level since records began in 1997. The 97 people killed in the city last year translates to a rate of 1.1 homicides per 100,000 people — lower than in Berlin, Paris and Toronto, according to the most recent figures.