Trump is obsessed with D.C. graffiti — and wants to get rid of it as he makes city more ‘MAGA friendly’
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The president-elect once referred to the nation’s capital as ‘rat-infested’ and ‘graffiti-infested’. Upon his return to the nation’s capital, Donald Trump met with the Washington, D.C. mayor — and groaned about the city’s graffiti. Graffiti is a sign of the city’s deterioration, he reportedly told the mayor at their meeting. After Trump takes office on January 20, he intends to turn the nation’s capital around, hoping to make it a more “MAGA-friendly place,” the outlet reported.
![[Protesters take photos of graffiti on the Treasury Department building behind recently erected security fences near the White House during George Floyd protests in 2020]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/16/14/GettyImages-1218001779.jpg)
The recent meeting is not the first time Trump has been laser-focused on the city’s graffiti. At a campaign rally in July, he also groaned about the spray paint. “We’re going to get all the graffiti off the marble. We’re going to fix the roads and the medians,” he said.
![[Trump has long spoken out about the ‘dirty’ Washington, D.C. and wanting to clean it up]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/08/05/05/Election_2024_Democracy_57262.jpg)
He also called the city “rat-infested” and “graffiti-infested” before vowing to “to take it away from the mayor.”. Some Republicans have also underscored the belief that the new administration will shake up the nation’s capital. “Washington is going to get an onslaught like it’s never seen before,” longtime Trump backer Steve Bannon told the Journal. “It’s much more of a concerted punch than before. Everything is going to be intense at a level people are not accustomed to.”.
Doug Heye, a former top Republican aide, agreed with Trump’s analysis of D.C., telling the outlet: “He’s right, this city is a mess.”. But Heye warned that the tight margins in Congress could complicate his plans: “But nobody is under any illusions that getting anything done via legislation is going to be simple.”.
