Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, a White House senior adviser, are not making friends in their new Washington, D.C., neighborhood, where residents are complaining about the noise, traffic and inconvenience of living on the same block as the political figures.
Marti Robinson, an Obama appointee to the Consumer Product Safety Commission who lives across the street from the Trump-Kushner residence, said the family has “completely taken over the whole street.”
“As if they have the authority!” Robinson told the Washington Post in a story published Friday.
It’s worth noting that former President Barack Obama and his family live just around the Tracy Place block in the Kalorama neighborhood.
Robinson said the number of Secret Service vehicles outside her neighbor’s house has “truly ruined my peaceful enjoyment of my house,” and she’s not keeping quiet about that.
Five local residents wrote D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office to complain about the black SUVs. A dozen people wrote the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission complaining about new “No Parking” signs that were installed in front of a house next door to the one Trump and Kushner are renting.
Those signs were taken down on Friday following the complaints. A Secret Service spokesman said they are making “every effort to collaborate with businesses and residents to minimize disruptions, while simultaneously maintaining the highest level of security for the individuals we are mandated to protect.”
Obama’s block has blockades at both ends to keep non-residents from passing through, while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson —another Kalorama resident — has a handful of orange cones placed in front of his lot to keep non-government cars from parking there.
