In one corner, the president distributed a “Game of Thrones”-style poster to his Twitter followers — “Game Over,” read the Trumpified version. Triumphant aides took to the White House driveway: Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, declared the entire enterprise “a political proctology exam.” In another corner, Democratic elected officials urged supporters to cover their ears when it came to the attorney general’s descriptions of the report. Others vowed to keep putting pressure on the president, whose lies they say are now well documented for all to see.

“The president and his attorney general expect the American people to be blind to what we can now see,” Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland and the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said in a statement. “This report catalogs in excruciating detail a proliferation of lies by the president to the American people, as well as his incessant and repeated efforts to encourage others to lie.”

But the rage-filled circus we see on our screens can sometimes bear little resemblance to life in the capital. On the streets of this heavily Democratic city, the release of the report seemed to be met with exhaustion-induced acceptance that Mr. Mueller had not delivered the knockout condemnation of the president it was once assumed he would.

Rachel Adamiak, 27, who works at the Meatball Shop, said that she had noticed that everyone around town — down to her Uber drivers — wanted to talk about the news. But she was tired.