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Eugene

(67,319 posts)
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:27 PM Aug 2025

Trump Plots Crackdown After Seeing Homeless People on the Road to His Golf Course

Trump Plots Crackdown After Seeing Homeless People on the Road to His Golf Course (The Daily Beast)

Donald Trump vowed a hardline crackdown on homeless people living in Washington, D.C., after seeing people camping out on the route to his golf course, according to a report.

The president demanded that homeless people leave the capital “immediately” in a Sunday post on Truth Social while sharing images of tents and homeless people in the capital. The images Trump shared were apparently taken from his motorcade while driving from the White House to Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, according to The Guardian.

One of the images shared by Trump showed several tents pitched on grass along a highway on-ramp around one mile away from the White House. Another appears to show a person sleeping in front of the American Institute of Pharmacy Building on Constitution Avenue.

Speaking to Politico’s Playbook, a White House official said Trump’s clampdown on D.C. stems from the president’s unhappiness at the overall cleanliness of the city.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-plots-crackdown-seeing-homeless-140546231.html

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Trump Planned D.C. Takeover Because He Hated Route to His Golf Course (The New Republic)

President Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., was directly inspired by the homeless people he saw from his motorcade window on the way to his golf course.

“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,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social, attaching four pictures to his post.

Two of the photos showed a total of about 10 tents on the side of the road near a highway ramp The Guardian identified as about a mile from the White House. One picture showed a person sleeping on the steps of the American Institute of Pharmacy Building on Constitution Avenue. And another was a picture of some trash in the E Street Expressway by the Kennedy Center.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-decided-over-d-c-171151583.html
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Eugene

(67,319 posts)
6. don't put it past them
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:07 PM
Aug 2025

Leasing of inmate labor of persons convicted of "vagrancy" used to happen.

Initech

(109,269 posts)
2. Yeah his billionaire criminal golf buddies are the reason there's so many homeless in this country.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:42 PM
Aug 2025

jls4561

(3,268 posts)
4. Some enterprising prankster should hand out whirligigs and sign that say "Promote fossil fuel alternatives"
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:00 PM
Aug 2025

for his next trip to that golf course.

spanone

(142,062 posts)
5. A real president would want to help them and provide shelter...
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:03 PM
Aug 2025

Not this piece of shit...he wants to hide them and won't give 2 shits about their care.

underpants

(197,192 posts)
8. Flippant selfish social media influenced nonsense
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:12 PM
Aug 2025

Big Balls gets jumped and gets his ass kicked so now every black kid under 18 is a suspect.

Did Elon put him up to this for midterm support or no lack of support?

He doesn’t like something his royal carriage passes and orders it dispatched with. He’s so self absorbed that he is sure that one three test “camp” on a main thoroughfare must reflect badly in him because anything anyone sees near (or not hear) one if his properties immediately thinks differently about him.

Jesus MF Christ!

BTW - my brother was living in the woods last year and a bit this spring. They were existing tents. It’s an existing tent village that the cops are aware of and visit frequently.

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