Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.” The statement comes amid his continuing attacks on homeless people after signing an executive order pressing local governments across the country to unhoused people from the streets.
“We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social. “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.”
Accompanying the post were photographs of tents on stretches of grass near D.C. roads, which have become an increasingly common sight in the nation’s capital over recent years. Although the official count of homeless