Trump says that the homeless must leave Washington, DC, immediately – “We will give you places to stay, but far from the capital”

The republican billionaire announced a press conference for Monday in which he should reveal his plans for Washington – which is led by the government -elected government from the Columbia district under the supervision of the Congress.

It is an arrangement that Trump has long rubbed publicly. He threatened to federate the city and give the White House the last word on the way it is managed.

“I will make our capital safer and more beautiful than ever,” published the president on his social platform Truth on Sunday.

“The homeless must move, immediately. We will give you places to stay, but far from the capital,” he continued, adding that city criminals would be quickly imprisoned.

“Everything will happen very quickly,” he said.

Washington is ranked 15th on a list of major American cities by the homeless population, according to government statistics from last year.

While thousands of people spend every night in shelters or in the streets, the silhouette is declining pre-countryic levels.

Earlier this week, Trump also threatened to deploy the National Guard as part of a repression of what he wrongly says, the increase in crime in Washington.

Violent crimes in the capital fell in the first half of 2025 26% compared to a year earlier, according to police statistics.

City crime rates in 2024 were already the lowest in three decades, according to figures produced by the Ministry of Justice before Trump took up his duties.

“We don’t know a crime peak,” said the mayor of Washington Muriel Bowser on MSNBC.

Although the mayor, a democrat, does not criticize Trump in his remarks, she said: “Any comparison with a country torn by the war is hyperbolic and false”.

Trump’s threat to send the National Guard comes for weeks after deploying California’s military reserve force to Los Angeles to suppress demonstrations against immigration raids, despite the objections of local leaders and the police.

The president has often reflected in the use of soldiers to control American cities, many of whom are under democratic control and hostile to his nationalist impulses.