The White House put out the receipts this week on President Trump’s push to clean up Washington, D.C., and the numbers are hard to argue with.

More than 500 instances of graffiti cleaned.

153 homeless encampments removed.

22 fountains restored.

28 statues cleaned.

All of it in 14 months.

The White House rolled out the numbers in a thread showing the administration’s work across the capital:

The policy backbone here is a March 2025 executive order titled “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful.” It directed federal agencies to clean up the city and restore the look of the nation’s capital.

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Rapid Response 47 also highlighted the outside report on the Trump administration’s D.C. cleanup:

Anyone who has walked past a defaced monument or stepped around a tent encampment near the federal core knows exactly what kind of decline the order was built to fix.

Tourists come to D.C. to see the monuments, the fountains, and the statues that tell the American story.

Letting that core rot was never an accident.

It was a choice, as the White House put it.

The visible part is what matters to the people who actually live and work there.

Clean fountains.

Restored statues.

Encampments gone from the sidewalks.

These are not abstractions.

They are the things a person notices the moment they step off the Metro.

For years the capital was treated as a place where standards could slip and nobody would answer for it.

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That stretch is over, and the fountains running again are proof of it.

The White House set the policy foundation for the D.C. cleanup push in President Trump’s executive order:

Section 1. Purpose.

As the Federal capital city, Washington, D.C., is the only city that belongs to all Americans and that all Americans can claim as theirs.

As the capital city of the greatest Nation in the history of the world, it should showcase beautiful, clean, and safe public spaces.

America’s capital must be a place in which residents, commuters, and tourists feel safe at all hours, including on public transit.

Its highways, boulevards, and parks should be clean, well-kept, and pleasant.

Its monuments, museums, and buildings should reflect and inspire awe and appreciation for our Nation’s strength, greatness, and heritage.

Our citizens deserve nothing less.

(a) The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Transportation, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Administrator of General Services, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the heads of such other executive departments or agencies and local officials as the Secretary of the Interior deems appropriate, shall develop and implement a program to beautify and make safe and prosperous the District of Columbia.

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(b) The program under subsection (a) of this section shall include, at a minimum, the following elements as appropriate and consistent with applicable law:

(i) a coordinated beautification plan for Federal and local facilities, monuments, land, parks, and roadways in and around the District of Columbia;

(ii) restoration of Federal public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties that have been damaged or defaced, or inappropriately removed or changed, in recent years;

(iii) removal of graffiti from commonly visited areas, with local assistance;

(iv) proposals to ensure Federal buildings or lands adequately uplift and beautify public spaces and generate in the citizenry pride in and respect for our Nation;

(v) a coordinated Federal and local approach to ensure the cleanliness of public spaces, sidewalks, parks, highways, roads, and transit systems in and around the District of Columbia; and

(vi) the encouragement of private-sector participation in coordinated beautification and clean-up efforts in the District of Columbia.

For Americans who have watched Washington, D.C. slide for years, the message is simple: President Trump is putting standards back where the whole country can see them.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

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