‘OVERDUE’: Trump Open To Bringing Insane Asylums. Here’s Why

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FROM DAILY CALLER: President Donald Trump told the Daily Caller that he is open to bringing back insane asylums to institutionalize mentally ill individuals on America’s streets.

Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese sat down with Trump in the Oval Office on Friday for an hour-long interview. The president spoke at length about his work cleaning up the streets of D.C., and also added that he was open to having the government reopen insane asylums, telling the Caller about how they used to run in New York.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

REESE: Would you be open to the government reopening insane asylums for people with serious mental illness?

TRUMP: Yeah, I would.

REESE: You would?

TRUMP: Well, they used to have them, and you never saw people like we had, you know, they used to have them. And what happened is states like New York and California that had them, New York had a lot of them. They released them all into society because they couldn’t afford it. You know, it’s massively expensive. But we had, they were all over New York. I remember when I was growing up, Creedmoor. They had a place, Creedmoor, they had a lot of them, Bellevue, and they were closed by a certain governor. And I remember when they did, it was a long time ago, and I said they didn’t release these people? And they did. They released them into society, and that’s what you have. It’s a rough, it’s a rough situation.

TRUMP: Because, you can’t have these people walking around.

REESE: I mean, what do you do with them? You know?

TRUMP: So dangerous, so dangerous. And they can live to be 85 years old.

Eric Daugherty, assistant News Director FL Voice News, wrote on X: “President Trump is floating REOPENING the insane asylums. … It’s overdue.”

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