Donald Trump said that being in war-torn countries is often "safer than being in the middle of some of our inner cities.” | Getty Trump calls Afghanistan safer than America's inner cities

Americans could be in more danger walking through America's inner cities than in war-plagued countries, Donald Trump suggested on Monday.

Speaking at a campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina, the Republican presidential nominee slammed the state of the country's inner cities under “a hundred years straight” of Democratic control, promising a “new agenda” under a Trump administration.


“The Democratic Party has run the inner cities for 50, 60, 70 years and even a hundred years straight,” he said. “We are on a mission of change. That includes a new agenda."

Trump carried the veterans-friendly rhetoric he’s campaigned on throughout his candidacy into his address on Monday night, drawing on an example from the United States’ involvement in the Middle East.

“You can go to Afghanistan. You can go to war-torn countries and you will find that it’s safer than being in the middle of some of our inner cities,” he said. “We’re going to give security and safety."

