During an appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touched on one of the hot-button issues that initially ignited her now-infamous frays with President Donald Trump, saying that if asked, she would not comply with the president’s authority to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department.

Under D.C.’s Home Rule Act, Trump has the ability to direct MPD for 48 hours in situations of emergency. Bowser called these powers invested to Trump under the Home Rule Act provisions “racist” on Friday.

“I think a lot of us were quite surprised by any notion that the mayor of the District of Columbia could be compelled to turn over a 3,800-person force,” Bowser said. “I think the roots of that provision and the negotiations for Home Rule were racist then, and they are now. I will do anything in my power to prevent that, including not following such a directive.”

Per the relatively obscure provision, any president can “direct the Mayor to provide him, and the Mayor shall provide, such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary and appropriate.” The president can command MPD for 48 hours before they must notify Congress.

Law expert Walter Smith with D.C. Appleseed Center for Law & Justice previously told DCist he doesn’t believe the rule has ever been invoked — and doubts that it ever would. Earlier this month, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton proposed legislation to repeal the clause.

In the early days of the D.C. protests over the killing of George Floyd, Trump called out Bowser in several tweets, claiming she prevented officers from responding to crowds in Lafayette Square. Tensions continued in the following weeks as Bowser pushed back against the president’s deployment of multiple out-of-state National Guard units and various federal law enforcement agencies on D.C.’s streets.

“The deployment of federal law enforcement personnel and equipment are inflaming demonstrators and adding to the grievances of those who, by and large, are peacefully protesting for change and for reforms to the racist and broken systems that are killing Black Americans,” Bowser wrote in a June 5 letter,  calling for the dismissal of the out-of-state guardsmen and federal forces in the city.

Bowser told Kojo that she thinks D.C. stood up to Trump’s threats with “powerful persuasion,” “powerful art”—referring to the new Black Lives Matter Plaza and mural—and ally-building.

Meanwhile, when asked about her potential veep-stakes on Kojo, Bowser responded with her go-to line: “I have the best job in Washington, D.C. I am the mayor of my hometown.”

Bowser’s recent battles with Trump and the resulting newfound national acclaim have led to her name being floated as a potential running-mate for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. But according to Bowser, she’s not being vetted — as far as she knows.

“I regard this election like the last one — one of the most significant for the country,” says Bowser. “I certainly will do anything that I can to help our nominee.”

Bowser’s appearance on the show came on a historic day for the city, as the United State’s House of Representatives passed a historic D.C. statehood bill.