{"id":46242,"date":"2025-08-17T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=46242"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:16:49","slug":"restaurant-attendance-takes-a-dive-in-dc-after-trumps-police-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=46242","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant attendance takes a dive in DC after Trump\u2019s police actions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Restaurant attendance in the nation\u2019s capital has taken a dive in the wake of President Trump\u2019s Washington, D.C., crackdown on crime, according to data from OpenTable<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Monday, Trump announced he was taking federal control of D.C.\u2019s police department and deploying<\/u><\/a> the National Guard in the city in an effort to fight crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning that Monday, seated diners at Washington restaurants, according to online reservation numbers, started to drop dramatically in comparison to the prior year, dipping 16 percent. On Wednesday, the amount of seated diners at restaurants with reservations fell 31 percent, slightly recovering to down by 20 percent on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WUSA was the first to report on the D.C. OpenTable data<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D.C. residents have expressed their outrage toward the president\u2019s recent actions in their city via protests. On Wednesday, federal law enforcement officers were heckled in a relatively busy area in<\/u><\/a> Washington\u2019s northwestern quadrant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s crime crackdown has also reignited calls for D.C. statehood, with the District also not having its own voting member of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General Pam Bondi\u2002<\/u><\/a>said on Sunday that authorities<\/u><\/a> arrested 68 people overnight in D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver 300 arrests in D.C. \u2014 and counting: Just last night, our federal and DC law enforcement partners made 68 arrests and seized 15 illegal firearms,\u201d Bondi said in a post on the social platform X. \u201dHomicide suspects, drug traffickers, and more are being charged. I\u2019ll continue to stand with you as we make DC safe again!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Chris Murphy\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D-Conn.) on Sunday dismissed Trump\u2019s recent crackdown on the nation\u2019s capitol as a \u201cstunt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happening here in Washington, D.C., is just a stunt. Donald Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>didn\u2019t like the fact that the walls were closing in on him, that his own base was questioning why he wouldn\u2019t release the Epstein files, why he was protecting very powerful people,\u201d Murphy told NBC News\u2019s Kristen Welker\u2002<\/u><\/a>on \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Restaurant attendance in the nation\u2019s capital has taken a dive in the wake of President Trump\u2019s Washington, D.C., crackdown on crime, according to data from OpenTable. Last Monday, Trump announced he was taking federal control of D.C.\u2019s police department and deploying the National Guard in the city in an effort to fight crime.  Beginning that Monday, seated diners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[1448,34372,4083,1230],"class_list":["post-46242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dc","tag-police-action","tag-restaurant","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46244,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242\/revisions\/46244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}