by Paul Street (from the Paul Street Report)
I am watching Trump’s insane fascist press conference right now. He is saying that US cities are “bad,” and that his coming federal police and military “clean-up” of DC is just the beginning of an effort to “clean up the slums…I know it’s not politically correct to say but we’re going to get rid of the slums because that’s where they live.” He mentioned Chicago and other cities. He is denouncing alleged “radical left city councils” and mayors and claiming that “the Democrats want everybody to be transgendered.” He is saying that Dems “want men to play in women’s sports.” He is saying that urban crime exists because “radical Left” Dems “got rid of cash bail.” He promises “dramatic action.” He just claimed that “bad people” are “spitting in the face of police and the police can’t do anything about it.” Now, Trump says, the pigs “can do anything they want…beat the Hell out of ‘em.” He is saying that DC is “dirty and disgusting” and that nice white tourists from Iowa are being “mugged” there.
Trump says nice white Amerikans “will be so happy” walking around DC because they’ll “see FBI agents” making them “safe.”
Hegseth looks like a scared dog standing next to him.
Trump is talking about how we have “homegrown criminals,” not just foreign ones.
He just said there’s no “rehab” of DC’s criminals. “It’s not going to happen.”
He just brought up some asshole who is saying that “our sacred monuments” are threatened by graffiti and homeless people.
This is insane, dystopian, fascist.
Hegseth is up now talking about deploying National Guard troops in DC. He’s upholding the role of the US military in helping the 21st century Gestapo — ICE — “do its job in Los Angeles.”
Fascist maniac and US AG Pam Bondi now: “crime is ending in DC now!…Do not underestimate us!”
Fascist lunatic Kash Patel: “let cops be cops.” Translation: unleash fascist pigs to beat, maim, and murder human beings.
Her boss was properly identified by Noam Chomsky in January of 2020 as “THE MOST DANGEROUS CRIMINAL IN HUMAN HISTORY.”
Trump just said “judges are letting murderers out of jail.”
Madness. Here comes RepubliNazi “Judge Jenine” claiming that Black teenage thugs are “beating and killing people in DuPont Circle because we can’t touch them” cuz of liberal judges and the liberal city government, which responds to urban crime with “yoga and arts and crafts.”
Nazi maniacs on the podium.
Recall the malignant fascist Donald Trump’s July 24, 2025, executive order that (a) demanded the punishment and institutionalization of unhoused human beings and (b) criminalized programs that offer humane services to the homeless. Read a comprehensive critique of this vicious order and its provisions here: https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/trump-executive-order-criminalizing-unhoused-people-explained/
Bear in mind that on November 24,1933, the Nazis passed the Law Against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allowed the Third Reich to send beggars, the homeless, alcoholics, and the unemployed to concentration camps.
Refuse Fascism says:
Can any reasonable person look at this… from Donald Trump and say this is not fascism?
For days now Trump has been spewing fascist threats dripping with white supremacy: to lock up “local youths and gang members,” threatening to “federalize” Washington D.C., and already putting federal agents on the streets.
Now he promises a press conference on Monday 8/11 saying he will make the capital “safer and more beautiful” by forcing homeless people out of the capital and locking up “criminals,” and “there will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK.”
This is FASCIST and now is the time to start coming into the streets and demanding the whole fascist Trump regime has to go NOW!
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We must bring forward the force of the people – the only force that can stop Trump fascism through mass nonviolent resistance and protest and mass noncompliance that shuts down the ability of this regime to carry out its fascist program or even hold onto power.
TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!