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14. 🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has assumed full federal control of Washington DC's Union Station and has taken it over f

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Wed Aug 27, 2025, 03:57 PM

Aug 27

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has assumed full federal control of Washington DC's Union Station and has taken it over from Amtrak.

Trump isn’t “fixing” anything - he’s consolidating POWER in the nation’s capital, one takeover at a time.

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Trump Administration Plans to Take Control of Washington Union Station [View all] BumRushDaShow Aug 27 OP

First step in nationalizing the few rail services we have? Lonestarblue Aug 27 #1

Actually they are nationalized under Amtrak jgmiller Aug 27 #3

It's not meaningless BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #4

I meant functionally meaningless but you are right about how it helps him. jgmiller Aug 27 #5

Even "functionally", it's an overreach as the station has a contracted management corporation BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #7

"Only I can make the trains run on time!" Torchlight Aug 27 #2

Chump managed the HOTEL at Union Station for a few years FakeNoose Aug 27 #6

The hotel was at the Old Post Office BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #9

Yes I saw it once, several years ago, and I remember it had a sort of underground shopping mall FakeNoose Aug 27 #10

He took it over just before his first term started BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #12

OK that means I must have seen it before 2017 because I retired in 2017 FakeNoose Aug 27 #15

I also retired in 2017 BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #16

Beautiful building! FakeNoose Aug 27 #17

Are they going to search people for sandwiches? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 27 #8

I think this is another ploy to deter ppl from using public transit OrwellwasRight Aug 27 #11

Traffic is already bad enough down there BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #13

Don't forget MARC trains, local busses, and regional busses OrwellwasRight Aug 27 #18

My earliest years in my career going down there BumRushDaShow Aug 27 #19

Wow that is quite a commute. OrwellwasRight Aug 29 #20

Thankfully I wasn't stationed there but had to go on numerous trips down there BumRushDaShow Aug 29 #21

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has assumed full federal control of Washington DC's Union Station and has taken it over f riversedge Aug 27 #14

I swear they spend 24 hours a day thinking up ways to fuck the country up. As if tourism wasn't bad enough. Vinca Aug 29 #22