𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏’𝐒 𝐃𝐂 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄: 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝟑𝟐%, 𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝟓𝟑% 𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑

One year into deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., the numbers are in — and the city looks nothing like the one Trump inherited. - M.A. Rothman

• Guard members can’t make arrests, but they’ve backed up law enforcement hundreds of times and helped reunite 𝟒𝟑 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 with their families.

Trump didn’t hold back describing what the city looked like before: 

“𝘞𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘪-𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥, 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦-𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪-𝘓𝘢.” 

Visitors have noticed the difference too, calling it “𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺.”...