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wcmagumba

(6,158 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:05 PM Aug 2025

WTF, why is the monster in Chief obsessed with "taking over DC"?

Is he going to rename it Trump City or something? Everything from stop signs to street lamps emblazoned with fake gold and his portrait on every corner? You will bow to Zod (Trump)...The man is just nuts to me as I see things...

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WTF, why is the monster in Chief obsessed with "taking over DC"? (Original Post) wcmagumba Aug 2025 OP
Remember malaise Aug 2025 #1
DC is a test PJMcK Aug 2025 #26
The mayor is a woman, a Black Democrat who had BLACK LIVES MATTER painted on a street Ocelot II Aug 2025 #2
THIS is why. SHitler has been dreaming of taking over DC for years. CousinIT Aug 2025 #9
Black people JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #3
He wants their prroperty malaise Aug 2025 #7
To be fair: he wants everybody else's, too. Asking for a friend: you own any propery in the US? marble falls Aug 2025 #18
Many of my famiky do malaise Aug 2025 #27
I pray we tear this scum administration down before any of your family gets affected by it. marble falls Aug 2025 #29
He hates black people and DC has a large Johonny Aug 2025 #20
Can't wait to hear the news tomorrow BOSSHOG Aug 2025 #4
A) b/c he's a racist P.O.S. and DC is majority non-white, and B) b/c DC votes Dem. RockRaven Aug 2025 #5
It's a place to start for the king. gab13by13 Aug 2025 #6
"King ain't satisfied Retrograde Aug 2025 #14
Don't let the Epstein narrative fade vapor2 Aug 2025 #8
I think he wants to be able to quell protests with violence. n/t Whiskeytide Aug 2025 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2025 #11
He isn't obsessed with taking over DC. B.See Aug 2025 #12
Startin' small. marble falls Aug 2025 #13
He is consolidating military power around the White House because... LudwigPastorius Aug 2025 #15
I just don't think he'll get the military to prop him up. marble falls Aug 2025 #19
The certification of any Dem for president falls oasis Aug 2025 #34
Test balloon. nt BWdem4life Aug 2025 #16
DC lacks "protections" from federal take-overs. no_hypocrisy Aug 2025 #17
He gets off on the power of dispatching "his" troops. Proves his unlimited power to allegorical oracle Aug 2025 #21
Trump wants to control D.C. because he's scared and insecure. Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 #22
100% that! oasis Aug 2025 #35
It is part of the fear and rage cycle critical to rethug control Takket Aug 2025 #23
IMO a trial run Thunder Chicken Aug 2025 #24
He is desperate to take over Karma13612 Aug 2025 #25
Local control of LE and the Congress that meets in the jurisdiction bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #28
Epstein. (n/t) Iggo Aug 2025 #30
With a MILITARY Force show... ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2025 #31
Pulled it from his book of diversions. Sneederbunk Aug 2025 #32
Voters there are heavily Democratic. n/t valleyrogue Aug 2025 #33
I think he wants it to be his personal fiefdom. ananda Aug 2025 #36
Trump just claimed he got the Olympics to come to the US! riversedge Aug 2025 #37
Now--Trump just claimed that Ukraine is Joe Biden's war, NOT his!! riversedge Aug 2025 #38

PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
26. DC is a test
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:38 AM
Aug 2025

If he takes over the Federal city, he'll try it in New York, Chicago and LA.

Trump is on a power trip, the likes of which we've never seen before (to use his cliche).

Ocelot II

(130,505 posts)
2. The mayor is a woman, a Black Democrat who had BLACK LIVES MATTER painted on a street
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:08 PM
Aug 2025

near the White House, and the city is full of Democrats and Black people.

CousinIT

(12,531 posts)
9. THIS is why. SHitler has been dreaming of taking over DC for years.
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:28 PM
Aug 2025

Last edited Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:46 AM - Edit history (1)

He had to manufacture an excuse first. Of course it’s a lie. So are the lies he’s using to extort universities, media companies, law firms, and others.

Doesn’t matter. SHitler is a mob boss. That’s how he operates. He urges people to do crimes for him. He protects them after they do it to ensure they are not held accountable. And he hires some of them into his crime syndicate.

Who does all that? THE MOB. And the mob boss.

That’s it.

And this particular mob boss is particularly racist and misogynist, as are his cult and mob members, those in his inner circle, and members of the Trump crime syndicate. They hide their racism and sexism behind pretentious excuses like “crime ridden”, and “antisemitism” and “DEI”.

JustAnotherGen

(38,046 posts)
3. Black people
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:10 PM
Aug 2025

Lead by a Black woman Mayor.

I'm putting it where the goats can get it - at the root.

One little snot lied - and now the Racist Dictator wants to demean and put his fat fuck boot on the necks of a majority Black city.

I hate these fuckers.

Hate them.

No coming together - punish them. Haaaaaaaate them.

marble falls

(71,910 posts)
18. To be fair: he wants everybody else's, too. Asking for a friend: you own any propery in the US?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:16 AM
Aug 2025

marble falls

(71,910 posts)
29. I pray we tear this scum administration down before any of your family gets affected by it.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:15 AM
Aug 2025

Johonny

(26,165 posts)
20. He hates black people and DC has a large
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:31 AM
Aug 2025

Black population and it no doubt bothers him greatly. He sees black people as rapists, thieves, and Tim Scott.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
4. Can't wait to hear the news tomorrow
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:14 PM
Aug 2025

After his presser we will all forget about rich guys fucking young girls on an island. His strategy is classic trump. Dumbasses erectus. Convicted of 34 felonies. Serial Liar. Failure as a parent. Moral degenerate. Lover of stupid people.

Response to wcmagumba (Original post)

B.See

(8,469 posts)
12. He isn't obsessed with taking over DC.
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:57 PM
Aug 2025

He's obsessed with taking over EVERY city with a significant, inner city minority population. Especially those with Black and other minority LEADERSHIP.

It also happens to be what some of his MAGA acolyte governors at the state level want to do.

They'll use any excuse: alleged high crime, malfeasance, financial disarray, to DO so.

And it wouldn't be the first time. Here's one of a number of such POWER GRABS:

‘Under attack:’ Birmingham mayoral candidate warns of state takeovers beyond water board - AL.com via MSN

LudwigPastorius

(14,712 posts)
15. He is consolidating military power around the White House because...
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:47 PM
Aug 2025

he doesn't plan on leaving it after his term is up.

oasis

(53,679 posts)
34. The certification of any Dem for president falls
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:27 AM
Aug 2025

seriously in doubt. Demonstrations in the streets of DC will be banned.

no_hypocrisy

(54,893 posts)
17. DC lacks "protections" from federal take-overs.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:53 AM
Aug 2025

It lacks congressional representatives and senators.

It lacks a state with a legislature and a governor.

It's just a city, unprotected by the benefits of democracy of other cities.

TSF's going after the low-hanging fruit to see if the city capitulates. Right now, his plan is to "evict" all homeless people in the District and arrest/incarcerate all "criminals". I suppose that means TSF will also be taking over the municipal government as well as the municipal courts. Think of it this way: If you want to build or renovate your home in D.C., TSF will expect something in return for your zoning approval.

allegorical oracle

(6,473 posts)
21. He gets off on the power of dispatching "his" troops. Proves his unlimited power to
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:53 AM
Aug 2025

himself. It's pitiful, really.

The District is a whopping 61 square miles of land area (67 sq miles if you include the Potomac and Anacostia rivers). If he activates 1,000 troops, the city will really be a military occupation.

August is a big tourist month, a last vacation before school starts. Nothing like threading your family through a phalanx of soldiers to visit the Constitution and all the museums.

Baitball Blogger

(52,331 posts)
22. Trump wants to control D.C. because he's scared and insecure.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:10 AM
Aug 2025

He knows he's going way over the line as a president and he knows he's stoking all the crazies out there. So he's expanding his grip on areas around the White House.

Maybe, somewhere in the back of his head, he thinks he might provoke non-Magas, or even the Magas, to repeat a January 6th Insurrection. But this time, he'll be the target. So it's a protective move.

His popularity numbers are down to 38%. And ONLY 47% Republicans would vote for him again if his pedophilia scandal sticks. Do the math.

Takket

(23,713 posts)
23. It is part of the fear and rage cycle critical to rethug control
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:19 AM
Aug 2025

They need people to believe that rethugs are the only thing that stands between them and instant death if they ever open their front door. So they take normal crime levels and exaggerate them into a lawless blood soaked hellscape that only the rethugs can fix by putting people with guns on every street corner.

This justifies their seizing of control over all policing from federal down to local levels and suspension of constitutional rights.

 

Thunder Chicken

(14 posts)
24. IMO a trial run
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:25 AM
Aug 2025

I believe this may be a trial run for a much larger city. There is not much stopping him here since DC is under federal jurisdiction. I think his next target may be New York, especially if Mamdani wins.

Karma13612

(4,981 posts)
25. He is desperate to take over
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:35 AM
Aug 2025

Some geographical area.

Remember his fixation with Greenland and the Panama Canal and making Canada the 51st State? He got strong pushback on those targets, from the targets themselves, and rightly so.

But DC is a liberal stronghold and with its unique status as a Federal Territory, it’s quite a target. Congress has ultimate authority over DC, but we know this current sham of a Congress is more than happy to let Trump ride into town and take over. In fact, T47 doesn’t even have to “ride into town”. He’s already there, walking around on the roof of OUR White House, like coeds do during parties at frat houses.

His two BFFs Netanyahu and Putin are already in full “invade and conquer” mode.

He cannot be seen as any lesser a dictator.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,892 posts)
31. With a MILITARY Force show...
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:30 AM
Aug 2025

Which will kill tourism in D.C. and surrounding areas in Virginia and Maryland.

People will revolt with their money, or what's left of it.

Imagine NO going to the Museums, the Monuments, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the historical places, etc.

Yeah! Trump did that!

ananda

(35,127 posts)
36. I think he wants it to be his personal fiefdom.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:31 AM
Aug 2025

I wouldn't even be surprised if he built a wall around it.

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