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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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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

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

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Trump meets to be shot and dragged out of DC and then it will be beautiful.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Classic conservative mindset.

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

[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

Alligator Auschwitz won't populate itself

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 points 5 hours 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.

[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours 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.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 25 points 13 hours ago

Release the Epstein files

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

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

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago

Another distraction from the child rapist.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 15 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly probably bus them to a blue city.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

DC is a blue city. But if they ship them off to New York or Boston or Philly, at least they’ll get public healthcare and better services for the unhoused than are available in DC.

Edit: but that’s not what’s happening; Trump proposes that the National Guard (now deployed to DC) simply “remove” the unhoused. I’d like to know what the fuck that means.

It was one thing when Nazi governors were bussing the unhoused to cities that would actually care for them, but it’s quite another thing to deploy the fucking National Guard in an attempt to make the unhoused “disappear“.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 9 points 17 hours ago

Perhaps to go track down the Epstein files?

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 124 points 1 day 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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He literally already did that with an executive order like a week ago. Maybe you missed it because everyone was dismissing it as a distraction.

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

I caught it, this was just him doubling down.

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

While we all know the real criminal is in the White House.

[–] griff 22 points 23 hours ago

“ya mean like all the convicted felons living in the White House in DC?”

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 34 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 5 points 10 hours ago

You're talking about all the megachurches in my city

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 67 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

Release the files pedophile.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 38 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Let's normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 20 hours 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.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

Let's get it going. It only took a couple of days for everyone to change from "trump fucks kids" to "trump rapes kids"

We can make this snowball.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Are you guys talking about the trump Epstein Files that Trump for hundreds of fbi employees to sift through to remove his name? Those trump Epstein Files? The ones he was told his name is in?

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

Those are the exact files we want

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

And then what? If the files contain damming evidence against Trump, what will happen? They aren't going to remove him from office or prosecute him for his crimes

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 49 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago
[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 29 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 22 hours ago

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

And he's just getting started. We're not even 7 months in to this.

[–] griff 2 points 22 hours ago

How about trying an executive order to install universal Medicare/Medicaid throughout every US state & territory so none of our neighbors have to move & our communities & nation can remain intact.

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 2 points 22 hours ago
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

HAHA CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE SO FUNNY!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't think they're joking

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago

What fucking asshole. Plain and simple

[–] griff 27 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Give them homes and they wouldn't be homeless.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Capitalism says no.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

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

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

And he can take all that gaudy gold with him!

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

Busy working on Germania

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