Trump threatened to have the federal government take over LA and San Francisco at his rally last night:
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the federal government may “step in” to take control of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The president made the remarks at a White House event in Bakersfield, California. During the event, Trump responded to someone who said he wanted to “get rid” of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Get rid of Pelosi! That’s okay with me!” Trump exclaimed. “Lot of people agree. Look what’s happened to San Francisco. So sad what’s happened, when you see a slum, where it’s a slum. It’s worse than a slum. There’s no slum like that.”
“It’s something that we’re going to do something about,” he added. “Because if they don’t fix it up, clean it up, take care of the homeless, do what they have to do but clean up their city, the federal government is going to have to step in. And we’re going to do it in Los Angeles and San Francisco.”
It’s odd that he hasn’t targeted some of the big cities in states that voted for him though. Surely they should be first on the list asking for his “help.”
Marine One flew directly over my house the other night when he was here. Twice. I looked up and it sure felt like my whole country was being occupied — by an alien from a foreign planet.
I know this is a ridiculous observation but I can’t help but think about what people would say if some Democratic politician was standing in front of a laughing and jeering California crowd referring to some Ohio steel town as a slum.
I know. It’s a waste of breath. The only people allowed to be offended when someone disparages their community in this way are conservatives. The rest of us just have to grin and bear it when the president threatens to send the federal government to take over their city.
By the way, in case you’re wondering about what they have in mind, Fox News has spelled it out. Transcript via Media Matters:
GERALDO RIVERA (CO-HOST): What do you do with the homeless? What do you do with them? I’m in LA and I’ve got homeless everywhere. What do I do with them? Put them on a bus to Phoenix?
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): No you move them out to a government-owned area. You set up sanitation. You get counselors in there. You separate the mentally ill.
RIVERA: So you would arrest people who are destitute?
GUTFELD: You keep interrupting me. One you separate the mentally ill, from the non-mentally ill, the people who are drug-addicted from the not drug-addicted.
RIVERA: You’re going be the separator?
GUTFELD: No you hire people to do it.
No doubt they’ll have people greeting the trains and buses to decide who should go take a shower and who can go to the tents. That’s how such “camps” tend to work.
Rivera went on to say that Trump can rally the majority to back him so we can have the “era of tough love.”