In his first speech back in Washington, DC after leaving the White House, Donald Trump demanded that the homeless be housed in special camps and boasted about dispatching the Secret Service to examine tents.
The former president delivered a gloomy, more than an hour-long speech in which he attacked the Biden administration for failing to stop the nation’s crime epidemic while vividly outlining some of the more horrible events that have made news in recent months.
Additionally, he restated previous calls for drug traffickers to get the death penalty, saying that by doing so, 500 lives would be saved.
Open up huge, reasonably priced land lots on the outskirts of the city, Trump suggested. “Build tens of thousands of excellent tents.”
In reference to the homeless, he claimed it was “the only way you’re going to remove the hundreds of thousands of individuals, and perhaps throughout our nation, millions of people.”
It can be finished in a day, according to Trump.
He also made several indications throughout his speech that he would run for president again in 2024.
Trump urged Republicans in Congress to pass reforms on the border, crime, and inflation, saying, “You still have someone in the White House who’s not getting it done.”
I believe assistance will arrive, and I believe it will do so far sooner than people anticipate.
The adoring throng occasionally broke out in chants of “four more years.”
The former president also gave a sneak peek at a White House plan that would turn the National Guard into a weapon against cities with high crime rates.
He demanded that the military force be under the president’s direction rather than the governors’.
Where there is a real breakdown of law and order, the federal government can and should send the National Guard without needing the governor’s permission because they believe it to be politically incorrect, according to Trump.
“In order to restore safety, the next president needs to dispatch the national guard to Chicago’s most violent neighbourhoods.”
Trump will visit the capital city for the first time since he left office in January 2021 on Tuesday.
Even before the former president was scheduled to speak at the America First Policy Institute summit, protesters lined the street outside the Marriott Marquis.
Former members of his administration founded the right-wing think group, which is committed to advancing the policies he carried out while in office and those that would have been supported in a second Trump term.
The House Select Committee looking into the Capitol Riot held a series of hearings before the former president made his comeback.
Over the course of eight presentations, members on the panel presided over testimony that was incendiary and characterised last year’s onslaught as a coordinated effort by Trump and his friends against senators who were recognising President Joe Biden’s electoral triumph.
The former president continues to fuel rumours that he plans to launch a third presidential bid with his speech at the Marriott, his third in a week.
Just hours before the former president’s appearance, Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, is creating his own 2024 hype with a different appearance in Washington, D.C.
In a speech delivered Tuesday morning at the Heritage Foundation, Pence outlined his “freedom agenda.”
He also made a subtle shot at Trump during his remarks for continuing to claim that the 2020 election was fixed.
“I’m not sure if the president and I disagree on subjects, but we might,” said Pence.
“I genuinely think elections are about the future. And that resisting the urge to look back is vitally crucial at a time when so many Americans are suffering and so many families are struggling.