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DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail.
Stephanie W., 28, who is homeless, rests on a foam mattress as a United States Park Police vehicle drives past on Wednesday in northwest Washington near the Kennedy Center. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
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On the 26-mile motorcade ride from the White House to his private golf club in Northern Virginia (one of 18 in his collection), President Donald Trump observed a few tents on public land and some garbage under an overpass. Perturbed by the imagery, he issued a sweeping demand via his social media site, Truth Social: “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY.”
“We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” Trump continued in his Sunday post. “Be prepared!”
The command came as he made plans to deploy 800 National Guard members to DC and temporarily federalize the city’s police department, which he announced in a rambling 79-minute press conference the next day.
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