The US president brought officers burgers and pizza, in a less dramatic move than his earlier suggestion of joining them on a ‘secret’ trip

US President Donald Trump visited a Park Police operations facility on Thursday to thank federal law enforcement officers he deployed to patrol the streets of Washington, saying he expected their deployment to last “for a while”.

“We’re going to then go on to other places, but we’re going to stay here for a while,” Trump said. “We want to make this absolutely perfect, it’s our capital.”

The visit to the building in Washington’s Anacostia neighbourhood appeared less dramatic than his suggestion on a radio show earlier on Thursday that he would be “going out” with a patrol in a “secret” trip with the police and military.

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