Breaking news: Trump wrote today (Beijing Time August 11): "We will hold a press conference at the White House tomorrow. I will make our capital safer and more beautiful than ever before. Homeless people must move out immediately. We will provide shelter, but these shelters will be far away from the capital. As for criminals, you don't have to move out. We will send you to your own prisons. All of this will happen quickly, just like border control. We have experienced the influx of millions of people before, but in recent months, this number has dropped to zero. It will become easier - get ready! I won't be a 'nice guy' anymore. We need to take back our capital! Thank you for paying attention to this issue!"
[Witty] Comment: The way Trump handles homeless people in Washington may seem to loudly declare "tough governance," but it actually hides contradictions and risks. On one hand, he claims to quickly clean up the capital, but he avoids the real difficulties of safeguarding basic human rights for the homeless, which makes this "expulsion-style resettlement" more like a symbolic political performance rather than a fundamental social solution; on the other hand, deliberately opposing "criminals" and "homeless people" not only exposes the deep cracks in the American judicial and social welfare systems, but also may further intensify social tensions.
Moreover, Trump applies the "successful experience" of border control to the governance of the capital Washington, a simplistic analogy that completely ignores the complexity of urban issues and may even trigger new humanitarian crises. When Trump strengthens the "siege mentality" through the narrative of "taking back the capital," what is reflected behind it may not be the urgent needs of capital governance, but a strategy to consolidate political consensus by creating confrontation. This unilateral approach that ignores diverse demands not only fails to achieve the promise of making the capital safer and more beautiful, but may also push society deeper into division and instability.
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