As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws closer and closer, residents of Washington, D.C., are looking to get away from being around “such hostile negative energy.”
With only two days left until President Trump’s inauguration, residents plan to stay away from events.
Washington DC resident Alejandra Whitney Smith is already planning to leave the city and spend a week in a technology-free cabin, the Guardian reported. “It (inauguration weekend) coincides with my birthday weekend, and I spend all my time in Washington, D.C., and when the election happened, I was like, ‘Oh, no, I can’t be here. ‘No,’ I told myself,” she said.
Trump’s re-election “represents an ugly side of America that people don’t want to acknowledge,” he said.
She was stalked by Smith while her mother was working at the Library of Congress during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, two months after Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election. I remember the fear I felt.
She also plans to do vision boards, reflections, and reconnections during Inauguration Weekend.
She expressed regret and acknowledged that she strongly believes that the American people have witnessed what happened in President Trump’s first term and will not go “backwards,” but she also believes that the American people are the first black woman to He added that he knows he is not ready to welcome the president.
“But I also know the reality of living as a black woman in this country. As much as I wanted Harris to win, I don’t think America is ready for its first black female president. It was still in me, and not only that, but she was running against Donald Trump, who has a very strong, almost cult-like following.
Another Washington, D.C., resident, Tia Butler, recalled encountering pro-life activists following the Jan. 6 riot and the 2020 election. I don’t want to.” She says her views are very different from those of the president-elect’s supporters. “I think it would be better for a criminal to lead the country than a person of color, a criminal rather than a woman,” she added.
But this shows a side of America. Meanwhile, many conservatives and Republicans are excited about the inauguration. As of Wednesday, hotels in the city were 70% booked, with prices ranging from $900 to $1,500 a night.
That said, Trump doesn’t have the best relationship with Washington, D.C. He labeled Washington, D.C., a “filthy, crime-ridden disgrace to the nation,” and even vowed to hire billionaire Elon Musk to cut the federal workforce and fundamentally rebuild the nation’s capital.
