Our emperor, crumpling into tears as he thinks about how "nice" he is and how misunderstood and getting whisked out of the room.
The speed with which the handlers react suggest this is something that's happened more than once.
The strangest and most colossal moment in the Tucker Carlson interview was the extended riff on the homelessness issue, which he seemed to think had first become a problem shortly after his inauguration ("a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago"). Not that he was taking responsibility for it; on the contrary, he suggests he "quickly" put a stop to it in Washington when it was "starting to happen" (which isn't true, as you might imagine; it happens to be true that the homeless population in DC has been declining significantly for the past three years, but the credit generally goes to Mayor Muriel Bowser and the family-oriented plan she introduced in 2015; Trump's budgets, meanwhile, work to eliminate one of the organizations that has done the most in the capital, the Interagency Council on Homelessness—not that Trump would know anything about that, it's one of Mulvaney's numerous jobs, but still).
Aaron Blake at WaPo has traced that one back to the fundraising dinner in West Des Moines, 11 June, where he went on at greater length:
Sorry to interrupt, but how are all not talking about @axios airing an interview with Trump where he’s quickly yanked from the room because he *starts to cry*? pic.twitter.com/ItXewP9lsS— Justin Yandell (@ShotgunZen) June 3, 2019
The speed with which the handlers react suggest this is something that's happened more than once.
The strangest and most colossal moment in the Tucker Carlson interview was the extended riff on the homelessness issue, which he seemed to think had first become a problem shortly after his inauguration ("a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago"). Not that he was taking responsibility for it; on the contrary, he suggests he "quickly" put a stop to it in Washington when it was "starting to happen" (which isn't true, as you might imagine; it happens to be true that the homeless population in DC has been declining significantly for the past three years, but the credit generally goes to Mayor Muriel Bowser and the family-oriented plan she introduced in 2015; Trump's budgets, meanwhile, work to eliminate one of the organizations that has done the most in the capital, the Interagency Council on Homelessness—not that Trump would know anything about that, it's one of Mulvaney's numerous jobs, but still).
Elegy: Homelessness in America
by Donald J. Trump
It's a phenomena that started two years ago. It's disgraceful.
I'm going to maybe and I'm looking at it very seriously,
we're doing some other things that you probably noticed
like some of the very important things that we're doing now.
But we're looking at it very seriously because you can't do that.
You can't have what's happening -- where police officers
are getting sick just by walking the beat. I mean, they're
getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick,
where the people living there are living in hell, too. Although
some of them have mental problems where they don't even
know they're living that way. In fact, perhaps they like living
that way. They can't do that. We cannot ruin our cities.
And you have people that work in those cities. They work in
office buildings and to get into the building, they have to
walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible
three years ago. And this is the liberal establishment.
This is what I'm fighting. They -- I don't know
if they're afraid of votes. I don't know if they really
believe that this should be taking place. But it's a
terrible thing that's taking place. And we may be --
You know, I had a situation when I first became President,
we had certain areas of Washington, D.C. where that
was starting to happen, and I ended it very quickly. I said,
"You can't do that."
When we have leaders of the world coming in
to see the President of the United States and they're riding
down a highway, they can't be looking at that.
I really believe that it hurts our country.
They can't be looking at scenes like you see
in Los Angeles and San Francisco. San Francisco,
I own property in San Francisco, so I
don't care except it was so beautiful.
And now areas that you used to think as being,
you know, really something very special,
you take a look at what's going on with San Francisco,
it's terrible. So we're looking at it very seriously.
We may intercede. We may do something to getHow delusional is Trump at this point? What does he believe happened in 2017 that made homelessness a problem in the US that it wasn't before? Does he really think there's a threat to the health of police officers interacting with homeless people?
that whole thing cleaned up. It's inappropriate. Now,
we have to take the people and do something.
We have to do something.
Aaron Blake at WaPo has traced that one back to the fundraising dinner in West Des Moines, 11 June, where he went on at greater length:
As a matter of fact, this is really a thing in LA, in the downtown Central Division station, whose beats include Skid Row: a detective on the force came down with typhoid fever in May, and some other officers were showing symptoms. The police union has blamed the hazards of the homeless encampments, though it's pretty clear it wasn't the street (as it might have been if they had typhus, a different disease) but the building they worked in, where unsafe and unsanitary conditions have led to $5,000 in fines:You see what’s happening in California, where they just announced a plan to give free health care to illegal immigrants, when it could very well be used — all of that money — to provide housing and hospitalization and medical for the rising number of homeless people. Then the Democratic-run cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco — do you see what’s happening to those cities? Can you even believe it, what’s going on there? People are getting sick just by walking down the street. They’re getting actually sick, including police officers, who are incredible, the job our law enforcement does is incredible.
The building lacked an effective extermination program and had “rats/rodents, fleas, roaches, flies, gnats, mosquitoes and grasshoppers,” according to the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s May 14 report.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says typhoid fever isn’t common in the U.S. but affects 22 million people annually in other countries.
It is different from typhus, which can spread from infected fleas and caused an outbreak earlier this year that sickened homeless people who live near City Hall and a deputy city attorney.
Dr. Abinash Virk, an infectious disease specialist with the Mayo Clinic, said it’s likely the officers were infected through contaminated food or drinks from the same cafeteria or restaurant.
She said homeless people could have a slightly higher risk of typhoid fever than others because of limited access to clean bathrooms or being immigrants from countries where the illness is more prevalent, but she doubted that the officers got sick from their work on Skid Row.
“You’re not just going to get it from shaking hands,” she said. (Stefanie Dazio/AP)
I think the cops blaming Skid Row are just embarrassed about the filth in which they maintain the station and trying to distract from it. Of course Trump's news sources (check this from Fox News) were the ones that allowed viewers to trust the union's account.
California, of course, the place he thought Putin was talking about the other day when Putin was making his Spenglerian remarks on the obsolescence of "Western-style liberalism", is always much on our emperor's mind. It's where all the "illegals" supposedly deprived him of an electoral majority, where Speaker Pelosi comes from, where all the cities are sanctuary cities, where everybody rejects him even though he's so "nice". And where the issue of homelessness, which is really a severe problem, has been giving Republicans ammunition for denouncing the state's liberal ways.
I thought he might be carrying on that argument here from the Osaka press conference (is it possible that Prime Minister Abe, who has longstanding personal connections to Southern California, said something about seeing homeless people on a ride to or from LAX?), aware that people are laughing at what he said but unable to find out what it was they were laughing about. The specification of "two years", though, suggests that it really is about the presidency—I wonder if there's some deep paranoid connection, an idea that they have homelessness in California just to spite him.
California, of course, the place he thought Putin was talking about the other day when Putin was making his Spenglerian remarks on the obsolescence of "Western-style liberalism", is always much on our emperor's mind. It's where all the "illegals" supposedly deprived him of an electoral majority, where Speaker Pelosi comes from, where all the cities are sanctuary cities, where everybody rejects him even though he's so "nice". And where the issue of homelessness, which is really a severe problem, has been giving Republicans ammunition for denouncing the state's liberal ways.
I thought he might be carrying on that argument here from the Osaka press conference (is it possible that Prime Minister Abe, who has longstanding personal connections to Southern California, said something about seeing homeless people on a ride to or from LAX?), aware that people are laughing at what he said but unable to find out what it was they were laughing about. The specification of "two years", though, suggests that it really is about the presidency—I wonder if there's some deep paranoid connection, an idea that they have homelessness in California just to spite him.
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