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Trump Demands Homeless People Move Out of Washington, DC 'Immediately'

President Donald Trump declared Sunday that homeless people in Washington, D.C., must leave the capital "immediately," promising they would be relocated "far from the Capital" as part of a broader effort to make the city "safer and more beautiful."

Because Washington is a federal district rather than a state, it falls under the constitutional authority of Congress rather than a governor, meaning any presidential attempt to take over the city would raise serious constitutional, legal, and political concerns.

The president already has unusual power over the capital, including direct control of the D.C. National Guard, and bypassing local leadership could pave the way for militarized control or federal overreach.

Such a move could further undermine D.C.'s limited self-governance—its residents lack voting representation in Congress and see their laws subject to congressional override—while setting a precedent for using federal authority to override local decision-making in other U.S. territories.

In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, "We're having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I'm going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. 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."

"Be prepared!" he added. "There will be no 'MR. NICE GUY.' We want our Capital BACK."

The announcement comes amid heightened federal law enforcement activity in D.C. and follows Trump's earlier threats to place the city under direct federal control.

Trump has repeatedly criticized the city's leadership, calling D.C. unsafe and poorly managed, but his latest comments mark an escalation in rhetoric and policy toward the homeless population, coupled with a pledge to intensify criminal enforcement.

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by Anonymousreply 44August 13, 2025 2:51 PM

Yes, by all means, let's get them out of sight so that we can pretend homeless people don't exist.

by Anonymousreply 1August 11, 2025 1:48 AM
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by Anonymousreply 2August 11, 2025 1:51 AM

Well, you have to admit they can be unsightly.

by Anonymousreply 3August 11, 2025 1:57 AM

So is Trump, Gwyneth. Can you get rid of him too?

by Anonymousreply 4August 11, 2025 1:59 AM

Homelessrein

by Anonymousreply 5August 11, 2025 2:02 AM

Kristi Noem called a "modest proposal" or something, but I don't think we should be modest about it!

by Anonymousreply 6August 11, 2025 2:17 AM

These people are freaks of nature. They have jobs that couldn't be more ill-suited to them. I think JD Vance will be POTUS before Trump's term is over. I'm feeling it. Not saying it's good or bad but a change is coming.

by Anonymousreply 7August 11, 2025 2:35 AM

Epstein.

by Anonymousreply 8August 11, 2025 3:41 AM

Trump's face resembles that of a lizard more each day. Sometimes a toad. My eyes!

by Anonymousreply 9August 11, 2025 3:53 AM

Sick, evil people run our country.

by Anonymousreply 10August 11, 2025 3:54 AM

There may be a variety of ways to achieve it, but we need to make the areas in our nation's capital where tourists visit and people involved with the government live be safe.

by Anonymousreply 11August 11, 2025 4:17 AM

Do we have enough ammo on hand for KKKristi Gnome to go shoot every homeless person in DC?

by Anonymousreply 12August 11, 2025 4:54 AM

This is actually something that most people will be overjoyed about even though they won’t dare say it. It’s sad.

by Anonymousreply 13August 11, 2025 5:20 AM

Remember that this is also a big distraction about the Epstein case and Trump's significant involvement with Epstein

by Anonymousreply 14August 11, 2025 12:08 PM

Did he thank them for their attention to this matter?

by Anonymousreply 15August 11, 2025 12:12 PM

IS this what Evangelicals learned in their Republican Christian Bible ? Is this what Jesus did ?

by Anonymousreply 16August 11, 2025 12:20 PM

He’s bringing in the National Guard. This is absurd - DC is not dangerous overall, especially not in the government and tourist areas.

by Anonymousreply 17August 11, 2025 12:29 PM

Fuck him. He'll be gone before they are.

by Anonymousreply 18August 11, 2025 12:40 PM

R16 Most evangelicals that I know cherry pick what they consider good and wrong, and ignore the rest.

by Anonymousreply 19August 11, 2025 12:47 PM

[quote] He’s bringing in the National Guard. This is absurd - DC is not dangerous overall, especially not in the government and tourist areas.

Keep in mind that next year is the Semiquincentennial, so it will be important to fix up DC by then to be its best. LA will have similar efforts leading up to the 2028 Olympics.

by Anonymousreply 20August 11, 2025 2:36 PM

He's going to deploy the National Guard in DC, he's rambling about it right now.

by Anonymousreply 21August 11, 2025 2:54 PM

He's very incoherent; so obviously senile it is disgraceful.

by Anonymousreply 22August 11, 2025 2:58 PM

He spun around to speak directly to Bondi and his breath was so foul her eyes watered.

by Anonymousreply 23August 11, 2025 2:59 PM

That is one motley crew on the stage.

by Anonymousreply 24August 11, 2025 3:02 PM

He's nervous that he hasn't delivered on his promises to improve the economy. He's also eliminated many jobs in the DMV and created unnecessary turmoil in the region. DC tourism is down and he's trying to encourage MAGA tourism to DC. He doesn't realize MAGAts can't travel to DC because they can't afford it.

by Anonymousreply 25August 11, 2025 3:04 PM

total gestapo move, what a fucking nazi

CRIME IS DOWN!!!

by Anonymousreply 26August 11, 2025 3:04 PM

Kash is so small. A man of that stature can be a public health hazard. See, Napoleon.

by Anonymousreply 27August 11, 2025 3:05 PM

I hope this deployment of National Guard troupes will be as successful as the deployment in L.A.

Seriously, this is just another misdirection from Epstein and an inching closer to martial law. The more he pulls this crap the more his cult is desensitized.

What National emergency do you think he'll invent just before mid-terms?

by Anonymousreply 28August 11, 2025 3:07 PM

The crime problems in DC are primarily in the poorer neighborhoods. They are certainly not going to address that. This is crazy.

by Anonymousreply 29August 11, 2025 3:08 PM

He's making shit up again as usual.

by Anonymousreply 30August 11, 2025 3:09 PM

CRIME IS DOWN

by Anonymousreply 31August 11, 2025 3:09 PM

This move can be completely shut down in the DC courts. It's unlikely they can do anything they are saying but it is yet another distraction from Trump apparently being Epstein's primary confederate in the sexual exploitation and trafficking of underage girls.

by Anonymousreply 32August 11, 2025 3:10 PM

He needs to fix the rat problem in DC. DC does not look especially dirty compared to other major cities but I always see rats, in broad daylight.

by Anonymousreply 33August 11, 2025 3:13 PM

CRIME RATES HAVE BEEN FALLING FOR YEARS

by Anonymousreply 34August 11, 2025 3:35 PM

r11, fuck off. D.C. tourist areas are perfectly safe.

by Anonymousreply 35August 11, 2025 3:38 PM

Facts don’t matter. This is like Bush Administration again

[quote] The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

Welcome back to 2004.

by Anonymousreply 36August 11, 2025 3:42 PM

It's time to put grandpa out to pasture. He's still going on and on.

by Anonymousreply 37August 11, 2025 3:44 PM

He looks like shit (not that he ever looked good). What are those creases in his forehead? They make him look extra evil. 😈

by Anonymousreply 38August 11, 2025 3:45 PM

The only uncontrollable crime in DC is coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!

by Anonymousreply 39August 11, 2025 3:47 PM

r16, if their hell is real, they absolutely deserve a place in it. As usual, none of this is like the teachings of Jesus. Jesus literally called out people like this all the time.

But regardless of the hypocrisy, if your solution to a homeless person in a park is to round them up and imprison them, you're a vile person. Full stop.

I have been in countless cities in my life. I have seen a lot of homeless people. Only a couple ever caused me any problems. The rest were living their miserable lives one moment at a time, harming no one.

Meanwhile, this fucker and his fucking friends are destroying my country. Congress barely exists anymore. Everything comes down to the whims of one man. The very thing this country was founded against.

Fuck this shit.

by Anonymousreply 40August 11, 2025 3:58 PM

Heinous

by Anonymousreply 41August 12, 2025 2:04 AM

Thank You for your post R40. Beautifully said.

by Anonymousreply 42August 12, 2025 11:37 AM

[quote]IS this what Evangelicals learned in their Republican Christian Bible ? Is this what Jesus did ?

Yes, R16, the same Bible that apparently excised The Sermon on the Mount and Christ's angrily driving the money changers, the whores, the sellers of animals for ritual slaughter from the Temple. And Christ and his Apostles feeding the hungry multitudes. Oh, and that old forgotten line about the rich, the camel, and the eye of the needle. Meretricious persiflage, all.

[bold][italic]"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."[/bold][/italic]--Ephesians 6:12, KJV

[quote]When U.S. President Donald Trump brandished a... Bible in front of a church he rarely attends and whose leaders and congregation work against the policies he trumpets, the clouds of toxic irritants deployed to part peaceful protesters and allow his visit still hanging in the air, it was idolatry.

[quote]It was the same idolatry that whitens the teeth and tans the cheeks and furnishes the mansions of the prosperity gospel pastors who pant for attention at his side, before returning to homes like Trump’s, choked with the same precious metal that King Nebuchadnezzar used to craft his image of gold. And it was the same spirit that drove Vladimir Putin to coyly boast of the Bible on his plane and Saddam Hussein to have a Quran written in his own blood.

[quote]Far before Trump’s election, televangelists like his thrice-married personal pastor Paula White were busy rotting their religion from the inside by making wealth and power the goal of prayer. For white evangelicals, the most stalwart block of Trump supporters, that has long meant embracing racism, from the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s lack of concern about apartheid South Africa (Bishop Desmond Tutu, he said, was a “phony”) to overwhelming pushback against accepting refugees. Dazzled by the promise of gold and scared at the prospect of having to share it, they worship a king instead of love.

[quote]Nebuchadnezzar’s sin wasn’t merely the creation of his golden idol. “Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship,” explains the Catechism of the Catholic Church. “It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc.”

[quote]John Adams also understood the broad nature of the term, writing with concern about “universal Idolatry to the Mammon of Unrighteousness.” He recognized how all tyrants, from Julius Caesar to corrupt governors, exploited “the mad Idolatry of the People,” which inevitably turned into “the surest Instruments of their own Servitude.”

[quote][bold]Idolatry is the most dangerous form of religion—and of belief in general—because it mistakes outside for inside, form for reality, displays of piety for piety itself.[/bold]

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by Anonymousreply 43August 12, 2025 12:50 PM

distraction

by Anonymousreply 44August 13, 2025 2:51 PM
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