Donald Trump has demanded that the homeless “immediately” move out of Washington, D.C. to make the nation’s capital “more beautiful.”

Trump reiterated his Saturday announcement that he’s set to hold a press conference at the White House on Monday, adding on Truth Social on Sunday that “I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before.”

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” he continued. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong.”

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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong.

Pretext to classify anyone living on the street who refuses to leave DC as a "criminal" and shuffle them off to work camps.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    We're going to round them up and concentrate them into a camp or something...

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Yep.

    That's his plan.

    He's mentioned it a few times.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-homelessness-policy-tent-cities-b2322102.html

    "We will then open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified,” Mr Trump said in the video. “But we’ll open up our cities again, make them livable and make them beautiful.”

    Now he has begun to act toward those ends.

    https://shelterforce.org/2025/02/14/trump-wants-to-force-homeless-people-into-tent-cities-can-he/

    There is no evidence yet that the Trump administration plans to use federal resources to create facilities like the one used in New Orleans before the Super Bowl.

    Ah, well, no, wrong, ShelterForce, see above public speech from Trump 2 years ago, or just look outside right now.

    https://homelesslaw.org/statement7242025/

    This Executive Order is rooted in outdated, racist myths about homelessness and will undoubtedly make homelessness worse.

    Specifically, this order:

    • Expands the use of police and institutionalization to respond to homelessness
    • Prioritizes funding for states that treat homelessness as a crime and end housing-based solutions
    • Cuts off funding for life-saving programs like harm-reduction.

    Today’s executive order, combined with MAGA’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets.

    My guesstimate is that within a year of Trump's collapsing economy and cuts to all kinds of social programs (so, by Feb 2026), we're looking at roughly 10 million homeless people.

    You know, just about the population of entire Chicago metro area.

    Was probably around 2-3 million back during Covid.

    No, the PIT count numbers of several hundred thousand, they're wrong.

    Source is me, I used to be one of the people who contributed to that count, as a data analyst for a large nonprofit serving the homeless.

    The PIT methodology is a complete joke, it only counts people in shelters or at known permanent encampments (which are all illegal now), you roughly have to multiply it by 3x to 5x if you want to match the demographics of all the people who call in, say they are or will soon become homeless, and then we either can't help them because we don't have the resources, or they don't want to come to a shelter full of traumatized poor people and would rather live in a car (also illegal now) or hop from motel to motel untill they run out of money (2 or 3 months on average).

    EDIT:

    Trump/MAGA's insane response to Covid unironically may have actually killed enough people, disproportionately in red areas, that it actually caused his election loss, and then subsequent Jan 6th coup attempt.

    Now he's gonna more directly kill millions of Americans, an order of magnitude more.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure the end game for the Republicans is to balkanize the United States and issue fiefdoms to billionaires. I can't believe I'm saying this seriously, but I anticipate States beginning to seceed within a decade. It wouldn't surprise me if gerrymanderig states into single party enclaves is the beginning. I've lived in Pennsylvania my whole life but I suspect my California birth certificate may become the most valuable asset I own one day.

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    [–] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Those Epstein files been released yet? Trump is a filthy rapist whose name is riddled throughout those files.

    Release the files pedophile.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Let's normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Epstein files, are in fact, Trump/Epstein files, or as I’ve recently taken to calling them, Trump plus Epstein files.

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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The fuck does he care, he's never there.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know of one certain house that has plenty of room that could be used to shelter The People. The current occupant is a squatter who has no respect for the rule of law and should be evicted any day now.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Another distraction from the child rapist.

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    Release the Epstein files

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    Every day I hope the McDonalds finally gets to his heart and every day I’m disappointed.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    DC will definitely be safer & more beautiful when he permanently moves out

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Give them homes and they wouldn't be homeless.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Man of the people, chosen by God himself everyone, can't you see the charity?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How did an allegedly civilized country allow one of the worst people imaginable to become their leader?

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Weird, everyone else could tell and even huge amounts of their own population could, too. Empires of the past didn’t have the internet but these days you can very easily* see how the ant colony works.

    *it does require some level intelligence, but it’s pretty much all there.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    A bunch of racists have decided that they're fine with the country crashing as long as they get to be racist and hateful to the weak morons who suffer from the disease of empathy....it's quite unfortunate really.

    I mean also the media owned by billionaires that want to own city states basically fudal times, and with a crooked supreme Court that's literally taking bribes from billionaires we're cooked.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Imagine treating people you are supposed to be protecting as head of state this way. Or continuing to support the head of state who does so. This country is disgraceful.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Make it more "beautiful" by leaving then, fuck-wit. Seeing a bloated sack of spoiled mayonnaise is gonna gross out anyone with any sense...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Classic conservative mindset.

    Ignore a problem or demand that it cease to exist instead of figuring out how to solve it.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The people demand traitor pedophiles immediately leave Washington DC

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Better kick him out to make the capital "more smart".

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    What fucking asshole. Plain and simple

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    ##pedo rapist is sicking poors on homless to distract themm

    How detached you have to be to think this should just do it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    He’s gonna have homeless people “disappeared”. Like their lives weren’t shit enough already. He’s gotta get disappeared himself. I’m still waiting to wake up from this nightmare.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Calling it now, this administration is going to spend the next four years militarizing the Capital and pockets of cities around the country so he can celebrate his third inauguration in his big beautiful ballroom.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    The best thing to do to make DC more beautiful would be to permanently remove a certain bloated orange eyesore.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Alligator Auschwitz won't populate itself

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Inb4 South Park makes a sequel to the Night of the Living Homeless with a presidential twist

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