Oh, now this will light some hair on fire.
President Donald J. Trump — yes, the Trump — just floated the idea of reopening insane asylums in America. And not in a hushed backroom whisper. No, he said it out loud, straight into the Daily Caller’s tape recorder during a sit-down interview from the Oval Office. The man looked at the state of America’s cities — the filth, the crime, the open-air lunacy — and basically said: enough is enough. You can’t run a country like a psych ward.
And you know what? He’s not exactly wrong.
Let’s just take a moment here. We’ve spent years now watching America’s greatest cities turn into post-apocalyptic theme parks. People dodging human waste on sidewalks. Homeless men screaming at lampposts. Drugged-out zombies slumped over in front of CVS. And all the while, progressive leaders mutter about “compassion” and “equity” while passing budgets to study how feelings are impacted by police sirens.
Two homeless addicts on the streets of Portland Oregon. One doing the fentanyl fold and the other on meth exhibiting obsessive compulsive behavior. @tarafaul503 see people like this so often it’s no longer shocking. I would even argue it’s become normalized and their presence is pic.twitter.com/v79VA2kTuf
— Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 (@kevinvdahlgren) January 3, 2025
Trump — ever the guy who says the quiet part loud — cuts through it: “You can’t have these people walking around.” That’s it. Plain English. No Ivy League filter. Just a hard truth: mentally ill people, left untreated, are not just a danger to themselves — they’re a danger to the rest of us, too.
And here’s where it gets even spicier — because he doesn’t stop at calling out the problem. He takes a jab right at the liberal utopia playbook. Remember when New York and California decided that institutionalization was “inhumane”? So they emptied the hospitals, cut the budgets, and acted shocked when the subways turned into mobile psych units. Trump names it. He even calls out Creedmoor, one of New York’s most infamous asylums. The man remembers names — and mistakes.
You can practically hear the MSNBC panic machine spinning up now: Trump wants to lock up the homeless! Cue the outrage. Cue the thinkpieces. Cue the “Orange Man Bad” sirens. But notice what no one’s doing? Actually fixing the problem.
Meanwhile, in the real world, people are fleeing cities like D.C. and San Francisco in droves. Even the journalist interviewing Trump admitted she had to leave the nation’s capital because of crime and chaos. She thought moving to Virginia would be safer — and still ended up calling 911 after watching a homeless man assault someone in broad daylight. Sounds like utopia’s got some structural problems.
Somehow @washdems and @BobFergusonAG believe this is compassionate.
The fact is, over 90% of the homeless on our streets are addicted to fentanyl, tranq, opioids, meth, alcohol, etc. and or have a mental illnesses.
HOW IS THIS COMPASSION? pic.twitter.com/pCj9v7pzCb
— PNW Conservative (@UnderWashington) December 6, 2024
And what’s Trump doing while the Left’s still lighting candles at their “Defund the Police” shrine?
He’s cleaning house. Literally. Over 1,300 arrests in just a few weeks. Federalizing D.C.’s police force. Deploying the National Guard. Evicting illegal aliens. Breaking up MS-13. Oh, and casually finding five missing children during cleanup operations. But sure, let’s keep clutching pearls about tone and “authoritarianism,” right?
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is open to bringing back INSANE ASYLUMS, per Daily Caller
DO IT, MR. PRESIDENT!
“You can’t have these people walking around!”
“They used to have them, and you never saw people like we have,” 47 told @reaganreese_
This would save children’s lives! pic.twitter.com/maEypjit57
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 1, 2025
The kicker? Trump’s not stopping at D.C. He’s eyeing Chicago. He’s eyeing New York. If the Left won’t restore order, he’s ready to bulldoze the red tape and do it himself. And the crowds? They’re not booing. They’re cheering.
Because while the Beltway crowd swoons over “restorative justice,” everyday Americans are just trying to walk their kids to school without stepping over a used needle or being screamed at by a shirtless guy named Kevin who thinks he’s Napoleon.
So when Trump says he’s open to bringing back asylums, maybe — just maybe — he’s saying what a lot of people are already thinking:
If we can’t even walk down our own streets without fear, what exactly are we protecting?
And if the answer to “what do we do with dangerous, mentally unstable people roaming free” is still just shrug and “fund another study” — then don’t be surprised when more Americans start listening a little closer to the guy offering the one solution no one else has the spine to say out loud.
Click. Read. Buckle up. This is only getting louder.
