President Donald Trump on Tuesday drew attention to police sirens during the Charlie Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, characterizing the sound as "beautiful."
"You hear those sirens going off? That's good," he said.
"That's a good sound. That means they either got the bad guy, or they're going to stop the bad guy."
The president took a few moments to review his administration's focus on crime around the nation's capital.
"What a beautiful sound," he said.
"They're stopping crime. That's what they're doing."
Trump brought a remembrance of Kirk into his remarks.
"So we're done with the voices of fools. They're fools and death threats, and we're going to make our cities safe," he said.
"And I thought it was Charlie's. One of his biggest dreams was that.
"He couldn't believe it. Chicago is going to be a great city again," Trump said.
The president said that before he ordered federal involvement in Washington, D.C., law enforcement, sirens were rarely heard.
"You didn't hear that sound because nobody wanted to do anything. Nobody," he said.
"Listen to the beauty of that sound, seriously. And that's the real deal, sirens.
"They're not politically correct sirens," said Trump.
"You hear them? They're about three miles away.
"That's great," he said.
At the event, Trump posthumously bestowed America's highest civilian honor on Charlie Kirk — the slain patriotic firebrand who galvanized a generation of young conservative leaders and left an indelible mark on the nation's political landscape.
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