Trump says EPA will cite San Francisco for pollution stemming from homelessness issues

The Hill logoABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump on Wednesday said he expects the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slap San Francisco with a violation notice in the coming days related to pollution associated with the city’s homeless population.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump again took aim at Los Angeles and San Francisco over the volume of homeless people in each city. But he escalated his rhetoric, saying an announcement citing San Francisco for environmental violations would come in the next week.

“There’s tremendous pollution being put into the ocean because they’re going through what’s called the storm sewer that’s for rainwater,” Trump said. “And we have tremendous things that we don’t have to discuss pouring into the ocean. You know there are needles, there are other things.”

View the complete September 19 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.

Trump’s incoherent monologue on homelessness

Washington Post logoIt turns out President Trump’s comments about Western liberalism and busing weren’t the only inexplicable things he said overseas.

Fox News on Monday night ran an interview Tucker Carlson conducted with Trump while the two of them were in Japan. Toward the end of the chat, Carlson moved on to one of his pet topics of late: homelessness and decay in America’s large cities — which he and Trump will be happy to remind you are run by Democrats.

Trump, as he is wont to do, ran with it, even though he didn’t seem to have much to say besides, It’s bad and we’re going to do something about it.

View the complete July 2 article by Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.