There's the so-called Broken Window Fallacy, and then there's former mayor Rudy Giuliani's Broken Windows Policy, adapted from the broken-windows theory. Trump, a fellow New Yorker, seems to have taken his cue from Rudy.
Once Trump leaves office, though, we'll see whether DC citizens have enough inherent pride in their city to maintain whatever gets repaired. Or will it be back to the urban jungle?
ADDENDUM: I admit I felt a little homesick watching this, however much DC may have turned into a shithole in my absence. DC in the daytime, and seen through the lens of a focused historical tour (on a Segway?), still looks like a real city.
As someone from northern Virginia (often called "not real Virginia" by other Virginians for various reasons—transient military and political community), I've often fudged and told non-Americans that I'm "from DC." Washington sits no more than 15 or so miles north of where I used to live, in Alexandria, and I did both my undergrad and grad work in DC (Georgetown U., then Catholic U.), so in many ways, I may as well be "from DC." (My home was also about 1.5 miles away from Mount Vernon, George Washington's residence, which is now a cultural landmark and tourist site.)
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