Do you feel safe in DC anymore, with Trump in office?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump cannot legally run in 2028. If he does so successfully, we have problems big enough that yes, I would look to options abroad rather than simply relocating within the US.

I don't feel unsafe in DC but do feel more stressed, I think, than people I know living elsewhere. Some of Trump's moves, especially regarding the National Guard and the ICE raids, make me uneasy but have not yet made me feel unsafe. The two days I felt genuinely unsafe in DC under Trump occurred in his first term (the day he tear gassed people outside the White House, and J6).

I think it is worth it to wait until the midterms to see if Dems can get back control of Congress, and also to see if an opposition movement emerges within the GOP to counter MAGA and Trump. His policies and he himself are increasingly unpopular and if Republicans start jumping off the MAGA ship and getting replaced by more centrist options, it will really weaken Trump everywhere, including in DC.

Also, and I know OP and others don't want to hear this, but a positive externality of some of Trump's horrible behavior in DC is that it has forced some within the DC government to contend more directly with real problems that DC was doing a bad job of addressing. I don't think the NG has done anything to address crime in DC, and strongly opposed the ICE activities in the city. But I am happy to see MPD getting better support and participation from other federal agencies to address issues like drug trade and violent crime in the city. I am glad to see less discussion of ineffectual alternatives to criminal enforcement like "violence interruptors" which have not been shown to work and have just resulted in the city funneling money to grift-y, fly by night, non-profits (see, e.g. the Trayon White scandal). I don't think *Trump* has done anything about crime in the district, but I think his actions have provided political cover for others to do something more about crime in the district, and that does actually make me feel moderately more safe.

Move abroad? He may end up attacking the country you move too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I couldn't dislike Trump and what's going on in DC right now any more than I do. But you're being ridiculous.

It's not "unsafe" for your kids because you're privileged. Do you think residents being targeted by ICE are thinking "maybe we should move abroad?"

So just stop.

Agree. This should line stupid liberal women handwringing over Chardonnay at a cocktail party. It’s always more virtue signaling than any thoughtful proposal to take action. DC is actually now much safer under Trump than before so better for her young children. What she should be more concerned about is qualify of education and paying for it. She needs to plan that out. When I lived in the Hill, parents moved off when kids hit grade school. Some went to Virginia for its public schools and terrific public college offerings. Some made the financial commitment to private - but you need to get into a feeder line Beauvoir ASAP - and moved to NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina, born in the US. I don't feel safe. I also don't know how I would leave, and trust me, I've done a ton of research. It's very very hard to move abroad without dual citizenship, and even then, you'd want a pathway to citizenship wherever you go or you'd just be an immigrant there.

I don't think California would be any safer for me than the DMV.

Doesn’t that make you American?

[Anonymous]

Just move out off the district to one if the suburbs. Gives a little buffer if needed. Plus your vote will count

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina, born in the US. I don't feel safe. I also don't know how I would leave, and trust me, I've done a ton of research. It's very very hard to move abroad without dual citizenship, and even then, you'd want a pathway to citizenship wherever you go or you'd just be an immigrant there.

I don't think California would be any safer for me than the DMV.

Doesn’t that make you American?

I am American but looks like this admin doesn’t care. They want all of us out. It is absolutely racialized. I carry my passport everywhere I go, even to walk down the street.

[Anonymous]

Are there less residents or tourists going to DC for Smithsonian museums, watching a game/attending concerts etc at DC these days?

[Anonymous]

I feel quite a bit safer. Crime is down thanks to the extra federal resources.

How many extra DC residents would have been murdered or car jacked without Trump?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s very cleaned up around the State Dept. There was trash and tents all over the grassy patch next to the State Dept after Covid, and I have to applaud, it is clean and safe now. I hope it stays that way.

Do you care what happened to the people they evicted whose meager belongings they trashed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there less residents or tourists going to DC for Smithsonian museums, watching a game/attending concerts etc at DC these days?

Yes, tourism in DC, one of its biggest industries, is down significantly in 2025, especially international tourism.

[Anonymous]

I no longer felt safe, and we moved to New England last summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I no longer felt safe, and we moved to New England last summer.

[Anonymous]

We were downtown just yesterday with the kids and DC felt much safer now that president trump has taken steps to enhance public safety.

Everyone knows DC’s government was making things worse for years.

[Anonymous]

I am afraid OP is neither a troll nor engaging in virtue signaling. I think white liberals are genuinely fearful of everything related to Trump, for the same reason MAGA folks have decided that liberals are pedophiles trying to make their kids gay and smuggling Latinos into the country to help overthrow the government, or whatever exactly they’re afraid of. We’ve become such a divided nation—with people only reading news or “news” that reinforces our fears and only interacting with people on the same side of the political spectrum. It makes it really easy to develop irrational fears and to overly demonize people who are different from us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were downtown just yesterday with the kids and DC felt much safer now that president trump has taken steps to enhance public safety.

Everyone knows DC’s government was making things worse for years.

Making what worse, exactly? As someone who has lived in DC for 55 years, I can tell you things were absolutely not getting worse. I’m not claiming at all that DC government was what was making things better—just pointing out that saying that things were getting worse is a ridiculous statement. DC was once the murder capital of the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am afraid OP is neither a troll nor engaging in virtue signaling. I think white liberals are genuinely fearful of everything related to Trump, for the same reason MAGA folks have decided that liberals are pedophiles trying to make their kids gay and smuggling Latinos into the country to help overthrow the government, or whatever exactly they’re afraid of. We’ve become such a divided nation—with people only reading news or “news” that reinforces our fears and only interacting with people on the same side of the political spectrum. It makes it really easy to develop irrational fears and to overly demonize people who are different from us.

I agree with this take. My mom is quite liberal (I’m center-right) and she’s got a significant fear that she’ll be killed in a mass shooting even though that’s statistically extremely unlikely to happen. She spends most of her time thinking about and talking about Trump now, and has become kind of boring to talk to since she’s let most of her pre-Trump interests slide…