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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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[–] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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This Executive Order is rooted in outdated, racist myths about homelessness and will undoubtedly make homelessness worse.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.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days 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.

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days 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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[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago
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[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 66 points 3 days 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.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days 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.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days 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 6 points 2 days ago

Those are the exact files we want

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days 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.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago
[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another distraction from the child rapist.

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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 31 points 2 days 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 3 points 2 days ago

You're talking about all the megachurches in my city

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

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

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Release the Epstein files

[–] griff@lemmings.world 26 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Give them homes and they wouldn't be homeless.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Capitalism says no.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

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

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same way it has happened hundreds of times before. An ant doesn't know how an ant colony works and it doesn't realize when its in a death spiral.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No. You can't. None, or perhaps nearly none of us understand how a city functions. Millions of humans come together and form a functional unit that has behaviour and agency, that protects us and organizes us, and we have no fucking idea how it works, because it emerges in non-obvious ways from very simple human behaviours.

We are very much as ants, responding to signals that we don't even directly perceive.

Your aside seems to suggest you think people voted the way they did because of lack of intelligence. That is a defense mechanism on your part. It's a belief you hold not because of its predictive power, but because of your emotional needs.

[–] genericguy1966@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 days 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.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

allegedly

This is why.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 19 points 2 days 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.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days 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...

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Classic conservative mindset.

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

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

What's the last time a Conservative has solved any problem? Seriously, my entire lifetime I can't think of a single thing where I'm like "Ah, good this conservative fixed this...."

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[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

What fucking asshole. Plain and simple

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The people demand traitor pedophiles immediately leave Washington DC

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 2 days ago

Perhaps to go track down the Epstein files?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sadly probably bus them to a blue city.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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“.

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[–] handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day 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.

[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days 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.

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Alligator Auschwitz won't populate itself

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Busy working on Germania

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