Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events In his inaugural address President Trump offered a characteristically bleak vision of an America beset by “crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential,” and he promised that “this American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” The subject of crime has been a driving force of the first 100 days of the Trump administration.