And it has been eight days since Donald Trump decided to turn Washington, D.C. into a police state,

sending National Guard troops into the streets of the nation's capital in disrupting life

for hundreds of thousands of D.C. residents. But if you ask Trump, the whole thing's been a huge

success based on one single metric.

People that haven't gone out to dinner in Washington, D.C. in two years are going out to dinner,

and the restaurants, the last two days, were busier than they've been in a long time.

I've made Washington, D.C. just an incredible, just an incredible place in literally four days.

I have friends that say they're going out to dinner.

Did you see what's happening with the restaurants?

They're bursting.

Some of my best friends are going out to dinner.

D.C.'s restaurants are bursting with people.

They've been busier in the last two days than they've been in a long time.

To be clear, increasing restaurant attendance is hardly a justification for turning an American

city into a police state. But put that aside for a second, because like so much of what Donald

Trump says, his claims about D.C. restaurants bursting with people is to say the least factually challenged.

According to data from the reservation booking site open table, restaurant reservations in Washington,

D.C. plummeted during the first week of Trump's D.C. takeover. The day after Trump made his

announcement, reservations were down 27 percent from the same time the previous year.

The next day, reservations dropped even further, down 31%.

I should note that this week is D.C.'s annual restaurant week, and restaurants are hoping that

that will drive more reservations in the coming days. But the small business owners who run those restaurants

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