WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump will visit the Department of Justice on Friday as he looks to promote his administration's "tough on crime" agenda.

Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, Trump said his speech will be used to lay out his vision for the DOJ.

"Basically we don't want to have crime in the streets. We don't want to have people pushed into subways and killed, and then the person that did the pushing ends up in a 15 year trial and gets off scot-free. We wanna have justice and we wanna have, we wanna have safety in our cities as well as our communities," Trump said.

The president says he also plans to discussed immigration during his address in the building's Great Hall. The visit is the first by Trump and the first of any president in a nearly a decade.

“President Trump will visit the Department of Justice to give remarks on restoring law and order, removing violent criminals from our communities, and ending the weaponization of justice against Americans for their political leanings," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

The remarks come as Trump himself was a onetime criminal defendant indicted by the agency, including an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 for classified documents.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has previously said wants to "not politicize" the department, critics say agency leadership is injecting politics into the decision-making process. FBI head Kash Patel is also expected to be in attendance, as he promised a major overhaul of the agency.

In the first weeks of Trump's second term, there has been change en masse for the DOJ, as the administration moved quickly to reassign or fire officials who served in top national security and criminal roles from different administrations, including dozens of prosecutors who worked on investigation into the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and DOJ and FBI workers who assisted in former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigations on Trump.

Friday's appearance is also expected to double as a victory lap, after the two federal prosecutions that were launched against him under the Biden administration were dismissed.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.