Trump’s decision coincides with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser‘s apparent political moderation in recent weeks, from announcing the district would be removing the “Black Lives Matter” mural across from the White House and clearing out homeless encampments, in addition to scrubbing information about being a sanctuary city on its website.
“Mayor Bowser is cleaning up D.C. because of President Trump,” a White House official told the Washington Examiner on Friday.
Bowser’s office did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner, but the mayor has dismissed speculation that the Black Lives Matter Plaza development was because of Trump.
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“We have long considered Black Lives Matter Plaza’s evolution and the plaza will be part of D.C.’s America 250 mural project,” she wrote in a
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