Trump CPAC speech LIVE: Former president gives address to conservative conference

Trump: Feds should take over control of crime-ridden Washington D.C.

“I will end the scourge of homelessness taken over our cities and suburbs. I just drove through Washington DC, coming here for the first time in quite a while and the roads and highways were littered with trash like I’ve never seen before. It looked like somebody just took the garbage and just threw it all over the highways, the beltway,” Trump said. “It’s so disgraceful, so disgusting. I always made it a point as president when I saw the highways were dirty or that the homeless encampments were starting to form to take care of the problem immediately. I used to have people out here all the time. Sweeping highways, cleaning highways, hosing them down. It bothered me so much. I’m in the beast, being driven back to the White House from some site and I see this filthy, dirty highway with paper that you could see it’s been laying there for months. And I’d have them cleaned up. I wouldn’t even call the mayor because it was never going to get done with her.”

“Frankly, the federal government should take over control and management of Washington DC because it’s horrible. And I think of it differently, foreign leaders come in to see us. We want them to do what we want them to do, and they drive through these terrible disgusting streets. Where their streets are much better, much better maintained, much nicer and they see camps and homeless all over our beautiful, once beautiful parks,” he continued. “Under our leadership, we will take the homeless, drug-addicted, and severely deranged, get them off our streets and create tent cities where we will get them the help they so desperately need.