Thursday, July 24, 2025

Trump Takes a Stand Against Homelessness

 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order urging states and municipalities to clear homeless encampments from public streets and relocate individuals to designated treatment and rehabilitation centers. The initiative marks a sharp pivot from the permissive, hands-off approach favored by many Democrat-led cities, which critics say has allowed public spaces to deteriorate into unsafe, unsanitary zones. 

On Thursday, President Trump took decisive action by signing an executive order urging cities and local governments to remove homeless individuals from public spaces and restore law and order to America’s streets. Unlike Democrats—who seem content to let homelessness spiral out of control while expanding the welfare state—Trump’s plan offers real solutions. The order calls for the rehousing of homeless individuals, including drug addicts and those with mental health issues, in designated treatment centers. It also redirects federal funding to support these facilities, prioritizing states and municipalities that already take a tough stance on open drug use, urban camping, squatting, and other quality-of-life crimes. This move signals a return to accountability and common sense in addressing a crisis that progressive policies have only made worse. 

The overwhelming majority of the homeless population, by some estimates, over 90 percent, are entangled in criminal activity, drug abuse, or both. A significant number are also in the country illegally. In cities like Los Angeles, they've transformed once-thriving neighborhoods into dangerous zones marked by crime, filth, and lawlessness. While local mayors and officials continue to turn a blind eye, President Trump is stepping in to do what they won’t: restore safety and order to the nation's streets. 

"President Trump is delivering on his commitment to Make America Safe Again and end homelessness across America,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources toward substance abuse programs, the Trump Administration will ensure that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from addiction or mental health struggles are able to get the help they need." 

Actually, Trump Might Have Ended Jerome Powell Without Firing Him

 

Sarah will have more on this later, but I wish President Trump could fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom he has eloquently dubbed “too late” for his refusal to lower interest rates. The president met with Mr. Powell, touring the multi-billion-dollar renovation to the Federal Reserve Building. Trump made it clear that if a site manager were causing costs overruns, he’d fire him, a not-so-subtle swipe at Mr. Powell (via CNBC):

President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell went back and forth in front of the press Thursday over Trump’s claims about cost overruns at the Fed headquarters in Washington. 

The stunning side-by-side took place as Trump began touring the Fed building in what is widely seen as the latest chapter in his pressure campaign to get Powell to lower interest rates or resign as the central bank chairman. 

But Trump also suggested that he was abandoning any consideration of firing Powell, despite floating that unprecedented and legally contested idea earlier this month. 

“To do that is a big move, and I just don’t think it’s necessary,” Trump told reporters at a separate press gathering after his brief spat with Powell. 

He added, “I believe that he’s going to do the right thing.” 

The president’s visit to a construction site at the Fed on Thursday afternoon came as his administration has recently homed in on the costly renovations of two historic central bank buildings in D.C. 

Shortly after his arrival, Trump and Powell were seen touring the site together, both wearing white hard hats. 

He also joked with the chairman, saying that he wished he would cut interest rates, slapping him on the back in the process. Powell looked immensely uncomfortable during this part of the tour. He knows that while Trump can’t fire him, if a shooting ever erupted between the two men, the president would win. He always wins.

He owned him. The liberal media is harping on a moment when Powell pushed back on some of the costs of the project or something. I don’t know—it’s not relevant. Trump got the final word, took over the spot, and owned Powell. He’ll likely serve out the remainder of his term, but as Kellyanne Conway said tonight, the worst thing Trump could do to someone with these bureaucratic protections on their employment is to make them irrelevant. The president might have set that into motion today. He’s going to let Powell die on the vine. 

The View Goes on Hiatus After Joy Behar Anti-Trump Rant

 

he View has abruptly gone on hiatus following co-host Joy Behar’s latest unhinged anti-Trump rant, a tirade so inflammatory that it prompted a warning from the White House. After years of pushing partisan narratives and ridiculing conservative voices, the show may finally be facing real consequences for its unchecked rhetoric. The break comes amid mounting calls for media accountability and a renewed effort by the Trump administration to rein in platforms that use their airtime to smear political opponents under the guise of daytime entertainment.

On Thursday, Behar appeared to reveal the show's upcoming hiatus accidentally. 

"Before we go on hiatus, we only have one more show after this. I’m allowed to say that, right?” Behar asked, to which Alyssa Farah Griffin laughed and responded, “Too late now!” A producer chimed in from the background to add, “Doesn’t really matter.”

This followed the previous day's episode, where she and her co-hosts reacted to former President Donald Trump's demand that ex-President Obama be criminally investigated for allegedly fabricating intelligence related to the Russia collusion hoax. 

"First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6?" Behar said. "Who was that again? That was not Obama. The thing about him is he's so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married, and can sing Al Green's song 'Let's Stay Together' better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it. It's driving him crazy. Green is not a good color."

White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers criticized Behar, calling her irrelevant and accusing her of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome." She blamed her for the decline in The View’s ratings and suggested she’s jealous of Trump’s popularity, warning that her show could be canceled next. 

After Stephen Colbert's late-night show was cancelled, The View's hiatus has many wondering whether the break will be a permanent vacation for the daytime show. 

Dems Thought They Cooked Trump With This Chart, But There Was a Huge Problem

 

Democrats thought they were cooking with this tweet attacking Donald Trump for high grocery prices. The fact is, inflation is lower than at any point in Joe Biden’s failed presidency, the price of eggs is down, the market is soaring, and tariffs have not caused price spikes or economic Armageddon. It’s the Left being crybabies because they’re sad, pathetic losers who only care about niche political items that only resonate with single, unhinged, blue-haired feminists who hate America. 

 That’s about it—liberal American women are locusts; they kill everything. But we digress. The tweet had to be deleted because, well, all the Democrats did was expose that the price spikes occurred under the Biden administration. You cannot make this up. And yes, some of the reactions were amazing: 

Obama Faked Trump-Russia Narrative and Almost Got Away With It

 

This week in the news, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, made a discovery that she has documents, under her purview, that are pertinent to the so-called Russian collusion hoax of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Remember what that was? During the campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016, there were allegations that Donald Trump was enlisting Russian President Vladimir Putin to disparage or hurt Hillary Clinton for his benefit.

That charge was never substantiated. Special counsel Robert Mueller—after Donald Trump was elected—spent 22 months and $40 million and found no evidence that Donald Trump was directly involved in any Russian escapade to throw the election.

But here’s the two new sources of discovery. The first is that, apparently, the Dutch intelligence had tapped into Russian intelligence, unknowingly to the Russians. And they were concerned that they were being accused of colluding with Donald Trump by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And yet, they had intelligence that Hillary Clinton had actually hired—and we know now that that was true—through the paywalls of the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, the Fusion GPS political operation, to give money to Christopher Steele for this so-called Steele dossier that was proven to be fraudulent and the source of this entire hoax.

So, here’s the point. That had been completely proven false, both by the Mueller investigation—saw that no credible—but the intelligence agencies, one of these 18 or all of them or some of them, knew from information from the Dutch that there was no validity.

But here’s the second thing. Apparently, John Brennan and James Clapper, maybe or not James Comey, the head of the FBI, also knew from their own intelligence teams, when they were trying to act on this information and prepare it for digestion by Barack Obama, the lame-duck president, who was on his way out, they said:

Wow. All of the people who are investigating this Russian collusion, it’s pretty clear there was no Russian collusion. They may have wanted to tamper in or troll or get on the, you know, websites, like the Chinese have done. But there was no evidence, according to our subordinates, our intelligence chiefs of these subdivisions, and Tulsi Gabbard, remember, oversees some of these well beyond the FBI or the CIA, there’s no evidence that our team can find any evidence.

Now, what’s Tulsi Gabbard upset about? That was known to John Brennan. That was known to James Clapper. That was probably known to the FBI. But they have notes, they have information that when they prepared this digest daily, weekly digest of intelligence updates to lame-duck Barack Obama in 2016 and into 2017, he ignored it. He did not want to hear that. He wanted more information pertaining to Donald Trump and the Russians colluding. It was almost like, you find me the crime and I’ll give you the criminal.

And so, what did Brennan and Clapper allegedly do? They reversed the opinion of their own intelligence subordinates. And they crafted or fabricated after the election, remember that? After the November 2016 election. And then, according to the wishes of Barack Obama, they created an intelligence falsehood, a false narrative, a fake narrative, that Donald Trump, now the president-elect, soon to elect office, had been colluding with the Russians.

And we know what happened after that. They destroyed the career of Michael Flynn. We got these false charges that Trump was Putin’s asset or puppet. Jeff Sessions foolishly, but tragically, appointed Robert Mueller, who was an intimate of James Comey and many of the intelligence chiefs. His team, the “All-Stars,” as they were called, they were pretty partisan. Remember Andrew Weissmann and all that mess? That went on for 22 months, $40 million. I think it’s fair to say it nearly wrecked the first two years of the Trump administration. And I think Tulsi Gabbard is making the allegation that was by design.

We couldn’t stop him with a Steele fake dossier. Hillary couldn’t stop him. Nobody could stop him during the campaign. But Barack Obama, allegedly, by Tulsi Gabbard’s conjectures, said, “We can stop his presidency. So, you guys go back, ignore what your subordinates are saying, when they found no evidence, and ignore foreign intelligence that found no evidence. Just get me a narrative that Donald Trump is colluding with the Russians and we’ll spread it.”

And spread it they did. And it nearly destroyed Donald Trump.

Is it serious? If it’s credible, then you have a conspiracy of the top people in the United States intelligence and investigative communities conspiring with a sitting president of the United States to destroy the administration of his opponent, successor, Donald J. Trump.