Demonstrators played go-go music and clamored for D.C. statehood while, just miles away, the president met with National Guard troops he deployed to the capital city.

JD Vance serves burgers to troops, praising their efforts amid chants of ‘free DC’ from protesters at Union Station.

President Donald Trump has expanded his law-enforcement crackdown in Washington, D.C., with top officials visiting National Guard troops at the city's main railroad station.

Stephen Miller, a top aide to the president, called the protesters “crazy communists” and “stupid white hippies.”

President Donald Trump declared his crime crackdown in the nation's capital a success on Thursday as he visited federal officers deployed under his plan, which has drawn resident complaints that its tactics are too heavyhanded.

The VP dismissed the demonstrators as ‘old, primarily white people’ who have ‘never felt danger in their entire lives.’

In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington in raucous protests against the police killing of George Floyd. In the late summer of 2025,

Members of the West Virginia National Guard will be deployed the streets of the nation’s capital as part of the Trump