President Trump launches scathing attack on Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district, saying the city ‘has really gone down hill’ with rampant homelessness and drugs, just hours after the impeachment vote
- Trump said Thursday night that San Francisco is ‘really going down hill’
- Tweeted link to lengthy report on city’s drug and homelessness crisis
- It is just the latest attack Trump has made on Speaker Pelosi’s home district
- Comes as she presided over vote to formalize House impeachment inquiry
President Donald Trump has again attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home district of San Francisco, saying the city has ‘really gone down hill.’
‘The home of Nancy Pelosi,’ Trump tweeted on Thursday, sharing a link to a lengthy report from City Journal on San Francisco’s homeless encampments and open-air drug markets.
‘I can’t believe her voters can be happy with the job she and the Do Nothing Democrats are doing! San Francisco has really gone down hill. So sad!’ Trump continued.
It came just hours after Pelosi presided over a House vote along party lines to formalize the impeachment inquiry into Trump, setting up the next stage of dramatic and ultra-partisan televised hearings in the probe.
President Donald Trump has again attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home district of San Francisco, saying the city has ‘really gone down hill’
It came just hours after Pelosi presided over a House vote along party lines to formalize the impeachment inquiry into Trump
It is hardly the first time Trump has railed against Democratic policies in San Francisco, which has seen homelessness skyrocket 17% from 2017 to 2019 alone.
‘I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary & environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is Impeachment,’ Trump tweeted last week.
‘We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away,’ he continued. ‘Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!’
Earlier this month, Trump told reporters during an Oval Office briefing that San Francisco, ‘used to be a great city.’
‘She should focus on her own district. Do you see what’s happening in her own district? We call it tent city. It’s terrible,’ Trump said.
Pelosi has said that Trump is attacking her district because he is ‘scared’ and trying to distract from impeachment.
A homeless camp at Market Street and 5th Street in Oakland is seen in a file photo. Nearby San Francisco has seen an explosion in homelessness
In January 2019 there were more than 8,000 homeless people living in San Francisco, up 17% from 2017, according to official data.
Experts say the true figure is likely in the tens of thousands when the uncounted homeless are included.
In recent years, tensions over the homelessness problem in the city have risen. Tents line the streets and parks of a city that covers less than 50 square miles and is home to 900,000 people.
Democrats in San Francisco say that the city’s high cost of housing is to blame for the crisis, but others disagree.
In the article shared in Trump’s tweet on Thursday, writer Heather Mac Donald posits that permissive attitudes and progressive policies have allowed human misery to flourish.
‘For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior,’ she wrote.
‘The city has done so in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite: street squalor and misery have increased, even as government expenditures have ballooned.’