If there’s one thing President Donald Trump likes to think of himself as an expert in, it’s real estate.
He’s said it runs in his blood. (He began his career as a developer working under his father, who built a real estate empire.)
On Aug. 11, while delivering the news of a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. police, Trump shared pearls of real-estate wisdom imparted by his father on the importance of first impressions. He might have thought of it as curb appeal.
“I had a wonderful father, very smart, and he used to say, ‘Son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door, don't go in,'” said Trump. “’Because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen's dirty also.’ Same thing with the capital. If our capital's dirty, our whole country is dirty, and they don't respect it.”
Casting Washington, D.C., as America's “front door” in need of a major wipe down, he went on to describe his plan of action.
