July 2 – 21-year-old Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern for Representative Ron Estes (R-KS), is killed in a drive-by shooting in Northeast D.C. Tarpinian-Jachym is believed to have been a bystander. A woman and a teenage boy are injured in the shooting.[17]
August 10 — An employee of the Justice Department throws a submarine sandwich at a federal paramilitary agent and is charged with assault.[19] Federal prosecutors fail to secure an indictment from a grand jury.[20]
August 19 – The Department of Justice opens an investigation into whether the Metropolitan Police Department falsified crime data to make it appear lower.[22]
September 4 – Washington, D.C. sues the Trump administration over their deployment of the National Guard in the city.[24]
September 5 – Trump orders the removal of the White House Peace Vigil, an anti-nuclear weaponry protest tent present across the street from the White House since 1981.[25]
September 6 – Several thousand people protest the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington in the "We Are All D.C." march.[26]
September 11 – The order federalizing D.C.'s police force lapses, and control is returned to the city. Members of the National Guard remain in the city.[27]
October
October 20–23 – The existing East Wing of the White House is demolished as part of Trump's plan to construct a modernized East Wing with a state ballroom.[28][29]
November
November 6 – A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at federal officers in August is found not guilty of misdemeanor assault.[30]
December 18 – The Kennedy Center board of trustees votes to rename the center to the Trump-Kennedy Center. However, the name cannot be officially changed without a vote from congress. Despite this, Trump's name is added to the signage the next day.[35]
December 20 – A mock funeral is held for the penny, the production of which was discontinued in November, at the Lincoln Memorial.[36]
December 31 – The Trump administration terminates the lease between the National Links Trust and the National Park Service that allows the Trust to manage and operate the three municipal golf courses in Washington. The move effectively moves control of the golf courses to the federal government.[37]
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