'Like we’re under occupation': Tourists aghast at Trump’s ugliest obsession

Visitors touring Washington D.C. cannot seem to shake off the feeling that President Donald Trump is stamping his presence on every nook and crevice — and they’re furious.

Speaking with city visitors Julie and husband Robert on the edge of Lafayette Square, the Guardian noted a scuffed sign proclaiming: “We are making DC safe and beautiful.”

But Julie didn’t see it that way while visiting the city in celebration of her recent marriage, said the Guardian.

“The irony,” she said, spying the chain-link fence surrounded the square, closing the site off from the public for renovation under the Trump’s orders. “It’s neither safe, nor beautiful.”\

Local preservationists say Julie’s “withering verdict is widely shared.”

“It is a different city right now,” said Rebecca Miller, executive director of the DC Preservation League, a city heritage group. “There are visitors from out of town who are disappointed that they’re only here for a few days, and there’s so much construction going on at the moment. … This is a once-in-a-lifetime trip for some people, and to have it marred down with not being able to access certain sites can be really disappointing.”

Trump ordered the East Wing of the White House demolished to make way for a massive ballroom, leaving a $600 million bill and a colossal gash in the dirt where once sat a pristine wing occupied by First Ladies advocating for women’s and minority rights, as well as national preservation projects, among other noble ventures.

The administration also commissioned a laughable “restoration” of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on the National Mall. By Saturday the “waterproof” American Flag Blue-tinted sealant was peeling up in huge blue mats of floating plastic and being collected by tourists as souvenirs of Trump-style efficiency.

Trump’s no-bid renovation for the project cost taxpayers more than $14 million—about seven times the cost of a competitor’s estimate.

Impenetrable construction barriers and cranes scratch the rest of the local tourist scenery with dozens of Trump-related projects underway, complete with dust, steel beams and overturned lumps of deep gray dirt.

“Scenes of visitors like Robert and Julie squinting for a better view have become commonplace,” as Trump micromanages city construction in connection to his personal birthday and the birthday of the nation, said the Guardian.

“Everything that I’ve seen is to honor Donald Trump, not America’s 250th anniversary,” said Robert, a retired US history professor at a private college in Brooklyn. “ … “We have the irony of a man who has the instincts of an absolute monarch presiding over the celebration of our separation from a constitutional monarch. It’s quite something.”

“I’ve been here many times before, and I have never imagined that I would be so completely locked out of everything,” said Angie Clark, a molecular biologist from Salt Lake City. “It feels exclusive, and not in a good way. Maybe once the party starts up, it will be better.”

“It’s so symbolic of what he’s doing to the country. It’s like he’s s—— all over our nation’s capital,” said Tampa author Norma Roth, spying a line of nearby ugly Porta Potties connected to Trump’s June 14 Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) game. “… It’s like we are under occupation.”

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