As people on the internet who know everything already know, everything Trump says or does is a distraction from something else he doesn’t want you to notice. But in this case, the photo op could have been meant to distract Trump from wanting to go on patrol, since White House advisers may have realized that if the president actually hit the D.C. streets looking for crime — particularly if the patrol was in the same low-to-no-crime areas where most of the federal forces are concentrated — he would be forced to recognize there was no need for a takeover at all, and that everything he believed was a lie.
Or maybe the Secret Service reminded Trump if he did try to do an actual D.C. ride-along, there would be no way to protect him from actual D.C. residents.
Chas Danner
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