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My daily trip to the White House, when I make it, is to take the Washington, D.C., Metro red line. I get off at the Farragut North station and walk two blocks to the White House.

Wednesday afternoon it was the site of gun violence aimed at members of the National Guard — part-time soldiers, ordinary people stationed there because Donald Trump said it was making the city “safer.”

“People are going to restaurants again,” Trump has said often about D.C. As recently as two days ago, he mentioned how his actions are making the District a place of mirth and virtue. “It’s now a world class city,” he says nearly as often as he claims that he’s “solved” eight wars. “You know that, you live there,” Trump told reporters.

When the

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