Trump’s DC police takeover has unsettling implications for 2028

President Donald Trump visits the US Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on August 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The two and a half weeks since President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, police department have mixed the disturbing and the comical. Combined with the spectacle of the National Guard picking up trash, there’s been a lot of law enforcement activity aimed at unauthorized immigrants. But many residents, though annoyed at Trump’s move, are going on with their lives as usual. Indeed, what most disquiets me about the Trump admini