Hating Trump in D.C. over the years #1

Part of a protest encampment outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., seen on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.

A protester in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, demands the elimination of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The D.C. region’s Metrorail and the intercity rail service Amtrak are among the bus and rail services using Union Station. President Trump has sent National Guard troops to Union Station as part of what he has called a crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. On Aug. 27, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the federal government was taking control of the management of Union Station from the nonprofit Union Station Redevelopment Corp.

A protest encampment outside Union Station, a major transportation hub in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.

A denunciation of President Donald Trump’s federal intervention in the local governance of Washington, D.C., hangs from a balcony at an apartment building in downtown Washington, D.C, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.

The north side of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. Visible in the picture are the two towering flagpoles that President Donald Trump had erected on the White House grounds on June 18, 2025, one on the North Lawn (foreground), the other on the South Lawn, on the Ellipse side of the mansion.

A sign at a permanent protest post maintained in the pedestrian plaza on the north side of the White House in Washington, D.C., as seen on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.