Trump plans focus
Trump is in California to seek $$$ from rich people.
Many details of his brief visit, accompanied by housing and urban development secretary Ben Carson have remained mysterious prior to his arrival, though Trump did make clear that he’d focus on the problem of homelessness in California.
By “focus on the problem of homelessness” of course he doesn’t mean provide public housing along with support for people with mental health problems or addictions or both, he means scraping up all the homeless people and driving them away, presumably to starve in a ditch somewhere cold and wet and miles from any millionaires.
Advocates across the Golden State, which has a growing homeless population and severe affordable housing shortage, have urged the US government not to further criminalize people living in poverty and instead increase funding for housing and other services, some of which Trump has cut in his budgets.
Naaaaaaaah we can’t do that, that would be Soshulizm, we have to punish them, drive them out, lock them up, maybe eat them – anything to make sure they don’t make a mess in front of one of Trump’s hotels.
I don’t even think Trump wants to do anything substantive here. It’s all for show.
The object is to encourage Fox News to run hours of footage of homeless people in California, as a warning to his base that their home town will look like that, too, if they don’t re-elect Trump, because that’s what socialism gives you! (No homeless people in Houston or Atlanta or Miami, of course. Nor in NYC back when Rudy Guiliani was in charge. No sirree!)
He also wants to imply that if only it were up to him, those homeless people would be put to work or at least out of decent people’s sight, but those Democrats in Congress and the judiciary won’t let him because they put those nasty, smelly, lazy homeless people* ahead of Real Americans and their children. My god, the children!
*– His characterization, not mine, obviously.