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.
Seriously 2 Lawyers and this: said Toby Moffett, a former Democratic representative from Connecticut"
So Moffett and the 2 atty's are lobbying for who?
And you don't think the swamp needs draining you UniPartier's lurking?
One of my Deplorable gnomes part of the Deplorable Men's Group is into VC made me laugh when he said I wish their was a way to short the whole DC real-estate market, I laughed and told him I had the same Idea 6 months ago!
what about Barry and Mich running a boarding house up the street with ValJar and building that wall?
Why are these, ‘Limousine Liberals’ worried about parking? Don’t they all use Public Transportation (City buses, High-Speed Rail) that they continually TELL US are the ONLY way to travel?
What’s the problem? Why do these people even NEED parking spaces? Why do they even HAVE cars?
*SNORT*
Why are Libs worried about park Spaces? Don’t they take mass transit?
Boo-frickin-hoo!
You should have seen the 96%liberal vote trash their own neighborhood like trailer trash when Pence moved in down the street from me. Not a thought about their real estate values.
So what? President J.Q. Adams had a fairly regular AM ritual of skinny-dipping in the Potomac. Nobody complained.
It may not be a popular view here, but I’m with you.
I fully support President Trump, his family, and his administration, but my test is how would I like it if it were me dealing with this. And how would I like it if it were 0vomit’s family/administration. I wouldn’t like it, but would probably tolerate it for Ivanka. I would be hopping mad if it were someone associated with 0vomit.
That said, it does seem like there is a fair amount of faux outrage and pearl clutching going on, though. “Sometimes, to the residents’ horror, agents even change their shirts in public.” Seriously? That’s a problem?
They need to stick to the real problem and deal with it. Just disliking the presence of Ivanka is not a problem. What are the real complaints? Lack of parking? Noise? If they were to focus on the real problems instead of on the politics, maybe they could ameliorate them.
Oh noes....the concern trolls are upset
but there were no complaints about obongo royal family?
‘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’
Oh....I see....it’s just political. Now, if they were also complaining about Obama, I might be sympathetic. But here’s my ‘BOO HOO’ to them. And a ‘grow up children’.
Bet they never had any problem with Obama disrupting traffic......time and time again.
Yep.
I don’t care what famous person moves onto my street, but if they start slapping up ‘no parking’ signs in front of my house to accommodate them, I’m raising a stink, too.
Of course, my neighborhood is probably too multi-cultural to attract the rich and famous.
Seems like the IRS could be targeted on some lib arse. It would be payback. If they could do it with SWAT raids it would be especially good payback.
Of course, NOBODY complained when the Obamas moved into the same neighborhood with Jar-Jar.
And right around the corner the same Secret Service mess with the Obamas but that’s A-OK. Never heard a peep out of the Clintons’ neighbors not too far away either. This is D.C., folks. Get used to it or move.
Note uniparty media brigs these types of stories out on enemies.
Never ran one on clintons neighbors.
Hey! This a golden opportunity for the commie lib neighbors to raise Cain and wring 15 minutes of “fame” out of this.
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