01/17/2021 06:00 PM ESTA Marine stands guard at the door to the West Wing of the White House indicating the presence of the president in that area. Photo by David Butow/Redux
The Secret Service is the lead agency, and it oversees each access point, at which you are also likely to encounter D.C. Metropoitan Police, Capitol Police and the National Guard. I was able to get onto the grounds only by showing my Senate press pass. A desolate view of Independence Ave. near the Capitol. Most parts of downtown Washington were closed to traffic on the Friday night five days before the inauguration of Joe Biden. A riot at the Capitol on January 6 sparked fears of further civil unrest and tens of thousands of National Guard troops have deployed to the city and fencing surrounds the Capitol and other areas of the city. Photo by David Butow/ReduxNational Guardsman stand watch on the Capitol grounds.
miagl11 How true. I've been a tourist there 3x over the years & it's so very sad what has happened to our Capitol & surrounding area. Trump & rioters defiled it, but it will not always be this way. From it we will rise & our democracy will continue if we are diligent.
WTF? D.C. is NOT protected! Trump is leaving the White House 3 hrs. before the inaguration...on 'AF-1' with the FOOTBALL! That literally gives him 3 hrs. to set up a strike against the Capital,......& to start a nuclear attack on a target, then fly off! COME ON GENERAL MILLEY!
Sad....necessary.....Trump's legacy
thanks Trump. you've made america great at being an asshole.
TrumpsAmerica
ThanksObama oh, wait....
So sad that it looks like a war zone.
The actual coup hasn't been perpetrated by the Right but the Left/Democrats.
That in itself is now a tourist attraction
DC has become a 3rd World Country. Businesses have closed down, homeowners are scared at what these rioters might do and streets that I usually could walk down now have barriers. Thank you F--cking tRump. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
Thanks Don, you disgusting creep.....
A fitting end to the worst President in American history.
This is the foot print that should be the District of Columbia with everything outside it Washington, Douglas commonwealth
This is no time to be promoting tourism StayHome BeatTheVirus
Becz these rightwing extremists see wearing masks (to protect their family from deadly disease) as tyranny they are causing us to live in armed camp, shut off from public spaces that belong to us; becz they want to “disarm govt” tote military-grade guns & terrorize our free spch
Is 🇺🇸 great again yet?
Why would you even have 'tourists' when the country is riddle with COVID ?
Trump and Fox News :Why America can no longer can have nice things
It was a price to be paid to have a toddler in the White House. A responsible adult is poised to move in, two days from now. There are expectations it will be better. Four years of alternative realities and lies have weakened the country and its moorings. It is time for a break.
nhaerting Are there any tourists in DC right now? I guess tourism died due to COVID19.
This is what the dems r turning our country into a communist party with concentration camps for who ever doesnt believe in there ideology. This is a f up place to b ..i want out of this country sad. Bc i loved america now i hate
They had the wrong kind of tourists just the other week
America has more boots on the ground in Washington, DC right now than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Am you guys are crqzy
You left something out because of racist trump
Look like a concentration camp.
Beyond depressing. Trump, the man who lives in a gilded tower, and his Trumpists did this to Washington, D.C., to the nation: there's your 'freedom,' America.
That’s because trump replaced tourists with terrorists.
Joe Biden must be popular.
Wow.. Terrible scene
Chat with the GOP !!!
'Walls don't work.'
Sad
Welcome to socialism
Thanks Trump!
When will the right admit, that they were tricked into electing a fascist?
I am relieved they are taking the threats seriously.
GEORGIA IS LEADING THE SOUTH OUT OF ITS RACISM, religious bigotry, rebellious roots, and backward cultural irrelevance. Thanks Abrams, Ossoff, and Warnock. NOW all people of faith please work to awaken/liberate more Southern states! ABANDON the FAKE CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS-RIGHT.
BIBLE THUMPERS - 95% white - claim superior interpretation to FORCE THEIR THEOCRACY on America. Inclusive Christians oppose religious-right Republicans. 'FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO'. Then Jesus advises them, 'GO AND SIN NO MORE (VOTE OUT REPUBLICANS 😉)'
This retired (Republican) CHRISTIAN COALITION REGIONAL DIRECTOR, Doctor of Pharmacy, Bible college grad, and medical missionary URGES ALL Christians and healthcare professionals to make your voices heard: Senators convict TRUMP and DOJ PROSECUTE ALL TRUMP DOMESTIC TERRORISTS STAT
And who do we thank for that? /S
White FAKE Christians: yesteryear's infamous WHITE FLIGHT from Blacks to suburbia. Now flee racial responsibility: trash BLM for religious-right's 'law and order' cop-out. This retired CHRISTIAN COALITION REGIONAL DIRECTOR urges all to expose religious-right bigotry/hypocrisy.
This retired (Republican) CHRISTIAN COALITION REGIONAL DIRECTOR and Dr. of Pharmacy uges Trump domestic terrorists be PROSECUTED TO FULL EXTENT OF LAW - no WHITE privilege! They desecrated our sacred Capitol and mocked our unified pandemic efforts. PURSUE THEM ALL IMMEDIATELY.
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