Trump suggests homelessness is a 'phenomenon that started two years ago' in barely comprehensible interview
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- Trump suggests homelessness is a 'phenomenon that started two years ago' in barely comprehensible interview
Emma Snaith, The Independent
Donald Trump has suggested that homelessness is a “phenomenon that started two years ago” and said that he “may intercede” to tackle the crisis.
The US president also implied that homeless people living in the streets of US cities were making police officers sick.
He made the comments in a rambling interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Japan, which was broadcast on Monday.
When Mr Carlson asked Mr Trump why US cities including have “a major problem with filth”, unlike Japanese cities, Mr Trump appeared to talk about homelessness instead.
“It's a phenomenon that started two years ago,” he said. “It's disgraceful”.
He added: “You can’t have what’s happening – where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,”
“I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick, where the people living there are living in hell too.”
Mr Trump may have been referring to a Los Angeles police officer who was diagnosed with typhoid fever last month after working in a downtown area with a large homeless population.
“Some of them have mental problems where they don’t even know they’re living that way,” Mr Trump added. “In fact, perhaps they like living that way."
“We cannot ruin our cities. And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
Throughout the segment, it was unclear what the US president was referring to as he did not mention the word “homelessness”.
“When we have leaders of the world coming in to see the president of the United States and they’re riding down a highway, they can’t be looking at that,” he added. “I really believe that it hurts our country.”
Mr Trump said the cities facing these problems “are usually sanctuary cities run by very liberal people”.
“We may intercede. We may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up,” he added. “It's inappropriate.”
Los Angeles has seen homelessness increase by 16 per cent over the last year as the city’s housing crisis intensifies.
Likewise, in San Francisco , homelessness has increased by 17 per cent in the past year despite the tech boom which has benefited many companies based in the city.
In the same fox interview, Mr Trump railed against some of these big tech companies in San Francisco.
“Facebook was against me,” he said. “They were all against me.
“Twitter was against me… I’ve been very good for Twitter. I don’t think Twitter would be the same without what I do on Twitter.”
“It's a phenomenon that started two years ago,” he said. “It's disgraceful”.
He added: “You can’t have what’s happening – where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,”
“I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick, where the people living there are living in hell too.”
Mr Trump may have been referring to a Los Angeles police officer who was diagnosed with typhoid fever last month after working in a downtown area with a large homeless population.
“Some of them have mental problems where they don’t even know they’re living that way,” Mr Trump added. “In fact, perhaps they like living that way."
“We cannot ruin our cities. And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
What a fucking idiot. I lived in lower Manhattan for a year and a half in 2000/2001 - when Trump lived in the city - and the homeless were all over the place.
This man is a moron and an embarrassment to our country.
I saw homeless people in Manhattan in 1980
Spent time in NYC back in the 60s. and there were homeless folk living on the street back then.
How the hell did Trump get to be so stupid?
It's the only thing he works hard at
Why would Fucker even broadcast this interview?
What a fucking moron.
Moron alert POS orange conman toddler in chief.
Sorry, but it is sickening that there are Americans that actually support this national embarrassment.
WTF?
Is the Donald taking "credit" for homelessness? It's not something that started two years ago.
Many vets are homeless. I hope Trump decides to provide (and all of the other homeless people) them with shelter.
So what's the cleanup plan? Is The Donald going to put them in fucking cages?
Many homeless people have mental health issues. Here's the proof:
The Final Solution?
I listened to the interview. Trump did not say that homelessness started two years ago. It was in the context oh how leftist policies in these mostly Democrat run cities are leading to increased disease, filth, and crime.
It is absolutely correct
“While combatting climate change remains a top priority for Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the streets of California’s cities are filled with homeless camps, garbage, and disease-spreading rats.
In a throwback to medieval times, Los Angeles is facing an infectious disease epidemic caused by flea-borne disease linked to rat-infested streets. Last October, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued a health alert surrounding an outbreak of flea-borne typhus in the homeless population in downtown Los Angeles.
A month later, Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood was diagnosed with typhus, which she claims came from fleas carried by rats that are infesting City Hall and an adjacent building, City Hall East, where she worked.”
LA business crippled by homeless crime and filth on NBC News
I used to live less than a mile from this riverbed which was a popular trail from biking and walkers until the homeless turned it into tent cities where they ran theft and drug rings until finally cleared last year. They would break into our homes., stand outside begging, or we’d find them passed out in our flower beds and bushes from drinking and drugs
And at the Santa Ana Civic Center which they also took over until last year
And of course San Francisco
Actually---and to be far more accurate---a better summation of what the Trump said or did not say could be simply categorized as--------nothing.
I think you'll find that homelessness is an epidemic in most major cities, though more so in temperate climates as mentioned above. Ditto regarding rats and major cities.
I find it interesting how you compare the homeless with filth. Interesting is the only word I could find without getting a violation.
Theft and drug rings? Oh for fucks sake.
It is not democratic policies leading to increased disease, filth, and crime.
I don't trust the majority of your links and refuse to click on them.
OMG, the rats were everywhere in NYC in 2000. Some of them were as big as a small cat. Go to Penn Station around 3:30 in the morning sometime .. .giant rats all over the middle platform, along the rails ...
But it's because of the homeless don't you know?
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's because of all the garbage generated by all the restaurants
Yeah because first hand video and network news stations are unreliable
You tube whackjobs are hardly reliable. Two of your other sources are news sites.
Whatever.
from a reportedly bipartisan group.........
"increased for the first time in seven years" according to a 2017 HUD report by Ben Carson and the Trump Administration.
The moron in chief has to always make it about him. From him being embarrassed by seeing the homeless on the streets to twitter being better off having him on the platform.
Saying that they are mentally ill, I can see his plan now. Bringing back people being forced into mental institutions.
Tucked away, out of sight, out of mind.
Another disturbing interview by trump.
A term coined a couple of decades ago stated, "The dumbing down of America is underway." The Trumpian base proves it.
As far as the Trump stating what he did--------which is non-sensical------uh, "Mexico will pay for the wall." Covers it nicely. Read em' and weep suckers.
This too. If the Trump is re-elected he will be able to fill six or seven additional Supreme Court Seats. And, hundreds of lower court positions. The spirit of Roland Freisler is watching.
The man is totally delusional. He definitely has dementia, and all the signs have manifested since he took office.
The wandering around not noticing the car in front of him getting off the plane, his disorientation at several world events like the one with Netanyahu and wandering off the stage and they had to run after him.
Several times in the White House he has meetings that have been taped and doesn't remember names or cannot remember that someone he just talked about is in the room.
Add all the unbelievable speech slurring and difficulty with word finding, one of the more recent events was the "wardrobe" incident at the medal ceremony.
Trump has displayed classic signs of paranoia that come with dementia. Anyone that has ever had a family member begin to deteriorate knows this too well. He is unfit for office and his terrible family lets him embarrass himself and do nothing to get him help or encourage him to step down for medical reasons.
Would you give me key words or a link so I can google that? It sounds interesting
President Trump talks about the problem with homelessness and filth in large American cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Is Tucker C one of those ambial sexuals?
Like you said above the 'president' said absolutely nothing about doing anything