Overview

• Speaking Sept. 8 at a White House religious-freedom event at the Museum of the Bible, the president said certain domestic incidents are less serious and should not count in crime statistics.
• He added, “If a man has a small dispute with his wife, they say it’s a crime,” a line that drew laughter from the audience according to reporters on site.
• Framing the remarks within a law‑and‑order message, he accused opponents of inflating crime figures to tarnish his record in Washington.
• Kim Villanueva of the National Organization for Women said the comments reveal his convictions and called him blind to the problem of domestic violence.
• Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes responded on X that domestic violence is a crime, as coverage highlighted CDC research showing about 41% of U.S. women and 26% of men experience intimate-partner violence in their lifetimes.