Trump claims homelessness 'so easy' to handle in attack on Democrats

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump claims homelessness 'so easy' to handle in attack on Democrats

President says governors of New York and California should ‘politely’ ask him for help in latest broadside

Lois Beckett in Oakland
@loisbeckett
Sat 28 Dec 2019 17.45 GMT
Last modified on Sat 28 Dec 2019 18.26 GMT

Donald Trump has continued to use America’s homelessness crisis to attack his political opponents in California and New York, tweeting on Saturday that homelessness should be “easy” to handle and that the governors of the two liberal states should ask him for help.

Workers and activists on the front lines of the crisis have repeatedly said that Trump’s “tough talk” on homelessness is concerning, and that some of his proposed policies will only make the situation worse.

As the number of homeless people has increased sharply in cities across California, some local politicians have already tried to try to penalize people for being homeless, rather than addressing root causes of the crisis, including unaffordable rents and evictions pushing people on to the streets.

Meanwhile, Trump has continued to fuel anxiety by repeatedly suggesting he might try to implement some kind of police crackdown in California to clear the streets of encampments.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/28/trump-homelessness-democrats-new-york-california

[underpants]

1. Well, someone needs to rake the forests

I'll go out on a limb here and guess....the government builds a ton of housing and then pay Trump Inc. to manage it OR pays Trump Inc licensing fees and all the homeless can live in those.

[SCantiGOP]

2. But remember,

Trump also said that health care was easy, building a wall was easy, etc etc

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Orang Anus,don't get me started.

Sad to say,that idiot does not have a clue! Talk is cheap,actions take more than cheap talk.

[Mopar151]

4. But we have all those FEMA camps, sitting there empty...

He wants California to be "All cleaned up and law abiding!" - like Poland, in 1939,

[Cartoonist]

5. It starts at the top

You're the president. This is your country. You're in charge. You fix it.

[dewsgirl]

6. Terrifying thought..what does he mean by "handle"?😳

[lunatica]

7. More fodder for privatized prisons.

It’s a simple and obvious fix in his detestable half rotten mind.

Ugh!

Maybe he can kill two birds with one stone and separate homeless families just like he does at the border. More prisons that way. Very lucrative.

[abqtommy]

8. It's good that you think it's easy, tRUMP, since many of us are working to make sure that you

join the ranks of the homeless!