Two different presidents, two very different stories about their experiences with the homeless

[Tommy Carcetti]

First, here's the current guy:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/trump-homeless-golf-course-washington-dc

Trump orders homeless people he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC

In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump has demanded homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January.

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning, shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”

The post was illustrated with four photographs, all apparently taken from the president’s motorcade along the route from the White House to his golf course. Two of the images showed a total of 10 tents pitched on the grass along a highway on-ramp just over a mile from the White House. The third image showed a single person sleeping on the steps of the American Institute of Pharmacy Building on Constitution Avenue. The fourth image showed the line of vehicles that whisk Trump to his golf course passing a small amount of roadside litter on the E Street Expressway, near the Kennedy Center.

Trump’s post promoted a previously announced news conference on Monday, which he has promised, “will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district, without explaining how. In a subsequent post, he said that the news conference at 10am Monday, “will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness”.

And then there's the guy we were lucky enough to have in office for four years (the story is from 2018):

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/17/594421324/joe-biden-and-a-homeless-veteran-have-a-very-human-moment

Joe Biden And A Homeless Veteran Have A Very Human Moment
March 17, 20188:13 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

The staff at Georgetown Ministry can't reveal much more about Rashid or about how a veteran wound up living on the streets. They are a social service agency and must maintain his privacy.

But we know he was sitting on the steps of a movie theater at dusk along the river in Georgetown last week when he saw a man leaving the theater and asked him for money to buy a sandwich. The stranger gave Rashid some cash, then lingered on the steps to talk.

Rashid recognized the man: Joe Biden, the former vice president of the United States, who had taken his granddaughter to see a film.

Rashid then told Mr. Biden that he has had problems receiving a housing voucher from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The voucher could help him move off the streets to live in some kind of secure and clean housing. Joe Biden listened to Rashid, then went back inside the movie house to find a paper and pen, and reportedly wrote down the name and number of a someone he knows who might help.

Could the difference in basic, decent humanity between these two men be any greater? Could the difference between what is right and what is wrong be any more clear?

Last night, Donald Trump used the FBI--the FBI!--to evict homeless people living in the streets.

Both of these men profess to be Christian. One certainly seems to take his faith to heart. The other one most definitely does not.

But maybe Donald Trump was out golfing the Sunday where they talked about the Good Samaritan?

[FalloutShelter]

1. God bless you, Joe Biden.

I miss this America and I’m terrified that it is gone forever.
I cried seeing this again. I remember when it happened.

Anyone want to tell me again how empathy is destroying democracy… Elon?…