Washington, DC Begins Removal of Homeless Encampments Per Order of Trump
“Federal officials have cleared about 75 homeless camps around the nation’s capital under President Trump’s effort to clean up Washington, DC — and they’re not done yet.”
Last week, when Trump announced that he was using federal forces to intervene in Washington, DC, over crime concerns, he also said that the homeless encampments must go.
That process has begun and seems to already be in full swing. This is way past due.
The New York Post reports:
75 homeless camps in DC cleared by US Park Police since Trump’s ‘Safe and Beautiful’ executive order
Federal officials have cleared about 75 homeless camps around the nation’s capital under President Trump’s effort to clean up Washington, DC — and they’re not done yet.
United States Park Police have removed dozens of tents since the president penned the “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” executive order in March, the Department of the Interior told The Post Friday.
Authorities have also scrubbed up to 80 graffiti sites from Capitol Hill Parks as of Aug. 6, Interior officials said.
“President Trump signed the order to Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful in March, and our dedicated U.S. Park Police have been working around the clock since to enforce this directive, clean up our streets, and ensure our nation’s capital is safe,” Interior deputy press secretary Aubrie Spady revealed…
Interior leaders, led by Secretary Doug Burgum, are revising guidelines so there is a no-tolerance policy for illegal camping on National Park Service property in Washington, including no longer handing out warnings before vagrants are pushed off the public spaces.
Liberal outlets are going out of their way to make this sound as cruel and horrible as possible.
CNN reports:
‘Chaos, fear and confusion’: Trump-backed crackdown hits DC’s homeless population
Fear and confusion are spreading among Washington, DC’s homeless population at the start of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on encampments.
Leaders from three prominent advocacy groups in the nation’s capital — where about 800 people live on the streets on any given night — told CNN they’re bracing for the worst, lobbying city officials to open up more shelter beds, and mulling potential lawsuits.
Newly defunded NPR reports:
Trump’s purge of Washington’s homeless encampments escalates
Just before mid-day Thursday, crews here moved into a grassy park near the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital, dismantling one of the small homeless encampments that’s drawn the ire of President Trump.
David Beatty, age 65, looked on as a bulldozer scooped up tents and other belongings and shoveled them into a garbage truck.
“It just feels wrong to me. The idea that we’re poor makes them uncomfortable. They don’t want to be reminded that poor people exist,” he said. Asked where he expects to sleep, Beatty shook his head and said quietly, “I don’t know. I don’t know.”
You can see some videos below:
HAPPENING NOW: Homeless encampments are being bulldozed in Washington DC near the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Memorial.
Turns out you can just end the squalor in our cities. 👏pic.twitter.com/dJDuKuA4n4
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) August 14, 2025
Police in DC clearing homeless encampments and throwing them in garbage trucks.
Thank you police and President Trump for making DC clean again.
Now let’s get all the other Democrat-led cities cleaned.
(wakeupworld on TT) pic.twitter.com/nRI7dYHcea
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 16, 2025
Right now: Volunteers assist in the removal of a homeless encampment in between the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC as President Trump’s initiative to remove visible homelessness takes place.
City dump truck but only one MPD officer and no Feds visible. pic.twitter.com/OE0eHEVNJt
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) August 14, 2025
The Democrats who run Washington, DC, have had years to deal with this problem, and they chose not to.
Now that Trump is handling it, the same Democrats don’t get to complain about how he is doing it.
This couldn’t go on forever, and it won’t.
Featured image via YouTube.
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“Newly defunded NPR reports”
Riiight.
They searched for three hours before they finally found someone to interview who could give them anything more cogent than “Bugg’rit! Miillennium hand and shrimp!”
500 internet points for the Discworld reference.
Ship them to Martha’s Vinyard and Nantucket and the Hamptons. Oh also Newport. I’m sure there are other enclaves where the entitled rich progressives frolic but those are the only ones I know.
Better yet put the excess homeless on bus and then drive them to the homes of the various d/prog members of Congress, legacy media and ‘activists’ within the DC area to include adjacent areas of Maryland and Virginia with a film crew. Gey half a dozen off the bus at each stop, knock on the door and demand to know exactly how many of these ‘homeless’ the lefty wokiestas residing there want to take into their home. Any surplus (likely the original #) can be taken to Martha’s Vineyard to see.if their welcome wagon has improved beyond cereal and calling the NG to ship them to State run military facility.
I’d add the tony and most expensive neighborhoods in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, too. And, throw Seattle in there, too. while we’re at it.
Don’t forget about Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills!
SF totally over-run by zombie apocolypse of homeless junkies. Lost cause there.
Disneyland is “The Happiest Place on Earth,” right?
The homeless deserve some happiness, don’t they?
I like that idea. Martha Vineyard has one token “shelter”. Person died and left home to city to be used for “supportive housing”. Only holds about 10 residents. Then the limousine libs who live on the island claim they are doing their part?
The Montgomery County, MD executive has already fear-mongered about the DC homeless ending up here. Whether it turns out to be true or not, it’ll still be used to jack up taxes. I love my little piece of land and the cottage on it, but at some point the cost/benefit analysis is going to tilt to “Oh fux fox skate, I’m done with this state.”
Should have been *fur* fox skate, I’m never certain about the profanity rules in comment sections.
You can help me get thongs done.
Georgetown isn’t far away, the homes of DC pols should be used too.
Georgetown U…
I lived in the DC area (worked in DC) back in the 80s.
I recall when “homeless advocate” Mitch Snyder used to regularly threaten to commit very public suicide if the a Reagan admin didn’t increase homeless funding. Panicked, they did.
Then they noticed they were spending over $100,000 per homeless (in 1980s dollars) while a small apartment in DC in 1990 ran about $650 a month.
They cut the funding back until it was only outrageous instead of “no way we can spend that much”. Was still more than enuf to feed and house the homeless population with money left over for generous re-housing programs – but to hear the press and the (D)s that was – OC – “genocide”.
Homelessness in America isn’t mostly economic – it’s a mental health and addiction issue. If you’re a full-blown addict or just like one guy I saw every day who it turned hadn’t taken off his clothes for a decade, just layering more clothes on as the bottom layer rotted away – institutionalization is the only humane solution. You can build 3 beds worth of shelters for every bed needed but if the person won’t or can’t peacefully co-habitate with others unless it’s under a bridge your wasting your effort.
Now…. as regards modern DC – the 2025 budget for homelessness in DC is scheduled to increase a to total ~ 2 billion. The total homeless is supposedly 5,000. That’s $400,000 per homeless. For that amount you could rehouse and job retrain, and relocate to a less expensive city every legit and sane homeless in DC – and institutionalize the rest – problem solved? OC that would result in a lot of unemployed govt bureaucrats and homeless advocates in DC – but they could relocate to other (D) run cities too.
Funny how homelessness is usually only an emergency or a problem when (D) are out of office – even if the numbers were the same or higher when they were in office – or they need their city to look nice for visitors
Also funny how if Trump bulldozes illegal homeless encampments it’s genocide but if a (D) does it it’s a nothing burger..
Yep they are unemployable and slowly committing suicide. EMS spends all day driving around reviving them with narcan, until they don’t get their in time.
*there
People camp out, not because they can’t get into a shelter but because they don’t want to follow the rules of shelters. Without rules, shelters are too dangerous to operate. No one is going to feed you and put a roof over your head so you can drink and do drugs nonstop.
27 colleges have entered the chat.
Resident blacks cheer while suburban old white lefties protest ( for $500 a day).
Oh! The humanity!
Eeyore:
I always thought that the major part of being a human being (and therefore part of humanity) was that you did a little bit MORE than earning your keep.
These bums aren’t even capable of earning their keep; i.e., the ability to feed and shelter themselves.
Not everybody can be King of The Road.
Some people are just fit to peon.
It’s ridiculous that anyone thinks clearing out these encampments has anything to do with disapproving of people in poverty.
Because these folks are hugely dysfunctional, and not because they are poor, i why these encampments are disgustingly filthy, wretched, rat-infested, garbage strewn.
Nobody is so poor they are able take no care of themselves or their surroundings. If mental illness or drug abuse has dragged you down to this level, that is immensely sad, but there is no concurrent right to blight public places with your problems.
Its nice to have competent adults around.
There’s only one way to clear up the mess created by Democrat led blue cities.
Quit voting Democrat. Idiots.
OK good step in right direction but move them where? Suburbs don’t want them.
Its playing game of wack-a-mole. Write them citation, they throw it away. Jail 30 days, back on the street next day.
“Jail 30 days, back on the street…”
Sometimes, 90 hots and a cot, with an occasional hot shower and medical care, can do wonders to refresh the soul for another three years of self neglect and abuse.
Not for fentanyl or meth addicts, relapse rate pushing 90%.