DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Says She Had ‘Great Meeting’ With Trump

Donald Trump has often cast Washington, DC, as an urban hellscape, but the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said she had a “great meeting” with the president-elect on Monday and came away “optimistic that we will continue to find common ground.”

During this year’s presidential campaign, Trump depicted the District of Columbia in dystopian terms. “We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, DC and clean it up, renovate it, rebuild our capital city so there’s no longer a nightmare of murder and crime,” he said at a rally in August.

Muriel Bowser

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Bowser, a Democrat, ...