Robert Davis
August 10, 2025
RAW STORY
Analysts and advocates for people who are homeless were outraged on Sunday after President Donald Trump issued a warning to the unhoused in Washington, D.C.
Trump posted on Truth Social that people experiencing unsheltered homelessness must "move out immediately." It was issued at a time when federal data shows homelessness increased by 18% between 2023 and 2024, with more than 771,000 people who are homeless counted during the last survey.
"We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital (sic). The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong," Trump's post reads in part.
Analysts and advocates for people who are homeless responded on social media.
"The billionaires at the Cicero Institute have their hands all over these shameful steps," Jesse Rabinowitz, an activist and spokesperson for the National Homelessness Law Center, wrote on Bluesky.
"Again, Republicans are using DC as a sandbox for their failed, racist, and backwards policies. Pay attention to what happens here, because it will soon happen everywhere," Rabinowitz added.
"I hardly see anybody on the streets in DC these days. If there are encampments, they’re hiding," Steve Berg, chief policy officer at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, wrote on LinkedIn. "Could it be somebody thinks he can prove how tough he is by threatening … people who are homeless??"
"Trump is going to traffic homeless people," Melanie D'Arrigo, executive director for the Campaign for New York Health, wrote on X. "Many won’t have ID, and will likely end up incarcerated with immigrants who are being arrested, trafficked, and detained, without due process."
"People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status," the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless wrote on X. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement.
'Crime is not out of control': Fox News pundit fact-checks Trump on D.C. takeover
David Edwards
August 10, 2025 4:42PM ET
Fox News contributor Ted Williams, a former member of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, challenged President Donald Trump ahead of a possible move to federalize law enforcement in the district.
In a post to Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said that homeless people would have to move "far" away from the nation's capital and that criminals would be imprisoned.
"I found it troubling because I also practiced law in the District of Columbia is that the president of the United States would say that crime is out of control," Williams told host Jon Scott on Sunday. "I take exception to that. Crime is not out of control in the District of Columbia."
Williams said he suspected that Trump decided to take action in D.C. after the attempted carjacking of a former DOGE staffer.
"I would like to ask Mr. Trump. Where were you last month when a three-year-old child, Honesty Cheadle, was shot and killed as the result of crime in the District of Columbia?" Williams remarked. "Don't use this as a pretext to actually eradicate home rule. And that seemed to be what Mr. Trump is interested in."
Watch the video from Fox News below or by clicking here.
Trump says to move homeless people ‘far’ from Washington
By AFP
August 10, 2025
Unhoused people in the US capital Washington are being put under pressure by US President Donald Trump, who has expressed his intent to have them removed from the city -
By AFP
August 10, 2025
Unhoused people in the US capital Washington are being put under pressure by US President Donald Trump, who has expressed his intent to have them removed from the city -
Sarah Meyssonnier, Ilya PITALEV
President Donald Trump said Sunday that homeless people must be moved “far” from Washington, after days of musing about taking federal control of the US capital where he has falsely suggested crime is rising.
The Republican billionaire has announced a press conference for Monday in which he is expected to reveal his plans for Washington — which is run by the locally elected government of the District of Columbia under congressional oversight.
It is an arrangement Trump has long publicly chafed at. He has threatened to federalize the city and give the White House the final say in how it is run.
“I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,” the president posted on his Truth Social platform Sunday.
“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” he continued, adding that criminals in the city would be swiftly imprisoned.
“It’s all going to happen very fast,” he said.
Washington is ranked 15th on a list of major US cities by homeless population, according to government statistics from last year.
While thousands of people spend each night in shelters or on the streets, the figure are down from pre-pandemic levels.
Earlier this week Trump also threatened to deploy the National Guard as part of a crackdown on what he falsely says is rising crime in Washington.
Violent crime in the capital fell in the first half of 2025 by 26 percent compared with a year earlier, police statistics show.
The city’s crime rates in 2024 were already their lowest in three decades, according to figures produced by the Justice Department before Trump took office.
“We are not experiencing a crime spike,” Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said Sunday on MSNBC.
While the mayor, a Democrat, was not critical of Trump in her remarks, she said “any comparison to a war torn country is hyperbolic and false.”
Trump’s threat to send in the National Guard comes weeks after he deployed California’s military reserve force into Los Angeles to quell protests over immigration raids, despite objections from local leaders and law enforcement.
The president has frequently mused about using the military to control America’s cities, many of which are under Democratic control and hostile to his nationalist impulses.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that homeless people must be moved “far” from Washington, after days of musing about taking federal control of the US capital where he has falsely suggested crime is rising.
The Republican billionaire has announced a press conference for Monday in which he is expected to reveal his plans for Washington — which is run by the locally elected government of the District of Columbia under congressional oversight.
It is an arrangement Trump has long publicly chafed at. He has threatened to federalize the city and give the White House the final say in how it is run.
“I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,” the president posted on his Truth Social platform Sunday.
“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” he continued, adding that criminals in the city would be swiftly imprisoned.
“It’s all going to happen very fast,” he said.
Washington is ranked 15th on a list of major US cities by homeless population, according to government statistics from last year.
While thousands of people spend each night in shelters or on the streets, the figure are down from pre-pandemic levels.
Earlier this week Trump also threatened to deploy the National Guard as part of a crackdown on what he falsely says is rising crime in Washington.
Violent crime in the capital fell in the first half of 2025 by 26 percent compared with a year earlier, police statistics show.
The city’s crime rates in 2024 were already their lowest in three decades, according to figures produced by the Justice Department before Trump took office.
“We are not experiencing a crime spike,” Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said Sunday on MSNBC.
While the mayor, a Democrat, was not critical of Trump in her remarks, she said “any comparison to a war torn country is hyperbolic and false.”
Trump’s threat to send in the National Guard comes weeks after he deployed California’s military reserve force into Los Angeles to quell protests over immigration raids, despite objections from local leaders and law enforcement.
The president has frequently mused about using the military to control America’s cities, many of which are under Democratic control and hostile to his nationalist impulses.
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