As Trump returns, a weary D.C. braces for a president it didn't want

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "Kristin Mink had her own moment of Trump-related notoriety in 2018 during a random encounter at a downtown restaurant with Scott Pruitt, then the embattled chief of the Environment Protection Agency.
54% : On Election Day, Trump won only 6 percent in the city, or 21,000 votes, though that total was 8,200 more than he got in 2016.
53% : Among those who perpetuated rumors about "Pizzagate," as it became known, were Trump supporters, including the son of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the national security adviser at the beginning of Trump's first term.
50% : Trump then walked across Lafayette Square to stand in front of St. John's Church.
47% : In recent days, she's helped organize the "Unwelcome Committee" -- artists creating fliers to paste to utility poles as Trump arrives.
44% : "These days, she said she feels a mix of sadness and anger and has lost "a bit of the fire" she felt when Trump took office in 2017.
42% : We're tracking the people Trump has picked for key positions in his administration.
42% : Guy, in an interview, said he joined the demonstrations because he was under the impression -- mistaken, as it turned out -- that Trump held the Bible upside down.
38% : Merritt Chesley, a retired Foreign Service officer who lives near the Capitol, said she went to "whatever demonstration was going on" after Trump first won because she believed "we could make a difference, someone would listen to us.""Now I don't feel that way," she said.
37% : Sarah Ronnebaum, a Democrat who lives near the U.S. Capitol, has a simple strategy for managing her anxieties as Donald Trump returns to Washington: limit herself to no more than 20 minutes of news a day and don't take his every pronouncement as gospel.
36% : Eight years later, a different story: Even with a felony conviction and the baggage of Jan. 6, Trump won both the electoral college and popular vote, a sweep that has left many Washingtonians feeling confused and frustrated and questioning how to effectively voice their opposition.
36% : Also: Trump can't run for another term.
34% : A promotional video shows Trump when he was leaving court during his hush money trial, his voice altered to say, "I'm not going to jail.
33% : Trump had won the electoral college but lost the popular vote, a result that galvanized his opponents, hundreds of thousands of whom converged on Washington as he was sworn in.
31% : "Sadness and angerOn that November day in 2020 when the networks declared that Trump had lost, thousands of Washingtonians poured into the streets, cheering as motorists honked their horns.
30% : Since Trump won in November, Mara said he has heard few complaints.
30% : It has nothing to do with Trump.
29% : No, she did not vote for Trump, and she's no fan of his personality or conduct.
29% : At the time, Bowser's supporters celebrated her directive as an inspired answer to Trump, whom she had accused of fostering an "all-out assault on our traditions as Americans."
28% : "After departing Washington in a fury four years ago, Trump is returning to the city where 90 percent of the electorate voted against him and where the lingering trauma of Jan. 6, 2021 -- when an angry mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol -- remains palpable.
27% : On Monday, when Trump takes the oath, he said he will be among those watching, no matter how much he disagrees with the new president.
25% : Since Trump sold the hotel in 2022, there has been no high-profile place for Republicans to gather in the city.
19% : More than any president in modern memory, Trump has denigrated D.C. in harsh and even crude words, describing the city as a "rat-infested, graffiti-infested shithole" and threatening to use his presidential power to eliminate its ability to self-govern.
14% : The vibe in Washington these days is far less defiant than when Donald Trump arrived in 2017 after defeating Hillary Clinton.

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