Posted on 03/25/2017 6:18:18 PM PDT by drewh
Residents of Washington, D.C.’s ritzy Kalorama neighborhood are in an uproar over Ivanka Trump’s Secret Service detail taking up too many parking spots on the block.
Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, recently moved into the Kalorama neighborhood with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three young children, but the warm welcome they initially received is quickly wearing thin because of all the Secret Service SUVs, The Washington Post reports.
Two “No Parking” signs were installed in front of the Trump-Kushner house. The real explosion, however, happened Monday after city workers put up two more “No Parking” signs right beside the residence of the Friedmans, who live next door.
For lawyer Rhonda Friedman, this apparently was the last straw.
“I started screaming,” Friedman told The Washington Post.
After numerous emails, Friedman finally persuaded the city to remove those signs from in front of her house.
Still, that hasn’t placated the block of Tracy NW. While Kalorama residents seem willing to put up with the Secret Service detail around former President Barack Obama, they are less willing to do so for Trump and Kushner.
“Are you kidding me?” asked Marti Robinson, yet another lawyer on the block. “This is the adult child of the president. Sometimes there are 10 cars out here.”
Neighbors are complaining about metal fences, loud Secret Service agents talking on the street, metal barricades.
Sometimes, to the residents’ horror, agents even change their shirts in public.
“We’re just a little story in a cosmic, bigger story, which is the whole Trump phenomenon and how they push their way around,” said Toby Moffett, a former Democratic representative from Connecticut. “You have people coming and going. You have three or four, sometimes five SUVs that are very big and that aren’t from the neighborhood.”
This isn’t the first time Trump and Kushner have caused an upset with their presence in the neighborhood. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier in March that the landlord of Trump and Kushner’s house is suing the U.S. government over mining leases, which could place Kushner in an awkward position, given that he works as a close adviser to the president.
Good!
My sentiments exactly.
But they are happy in the same ‘hood just up the street from the Islamic Center of Washington where VarJar now casts her spells?
Isn’t that where Obama lives, too?
Guess his detail’s cars are okay.
Nothing says “Suck on it, Libs” like our side in control...
Great feeling, ain’t it...? :^)
I can see the other residents’ point. Reminds me of the time chef Jamie Oliver refused admittance to Bill Clinton and his Secret Service entourage at one of his restaurants because it would have meant kicking out a lot of people who already had reservations. Government people are not supposed to be aristocrats in America.
Shockingly, they neighborhood does not seem upset at the security detail a block over at the Obama Castle.
Of course the libs would go nuts over that as well.
But they are happy in the same ‘hood just up the street from the Islamic Center of Washington where ValJar now casts her spells?
Dones jaime gorelick get a reserved parking space?
Maybe some nice liberal will give the No Parking signs the Cool Hand Luke treatment - and then spend some time in prison for it. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.
I used to live in the Kalorama area...parking has always been impossible, anyway, as it is everywhere in DC.
Obozo is building an ugly wall around his fortress down the street and not a peep from these Democrat losers.
That’s where autonomous cars come in - they can circle the block until recalled....
F’em. There are plenty of neighborhoods where there is not LEO presence. Go there.
Bathouse Barry is building a wall around the property! lol
And these are nothing but grandees and rent seekers. I would like to see the Washington neighborhoods emptied out.
I guarantee you if the city put "No Parking" signs in front of my house regardless of who lives next door, I'd be pissed too...
They would be pulled out in five minutes...
They should be thankful. Now they can enjoy the experience of using public transportation that they prescribe for the common people. It’s their chance to do their part for “climate change”.
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