The President claimed that America’s streets would be safer if more people are forced into long-term psychiatric care — although he admitted it would be ‘massively expensive’IndependentBy Io Dodds01 September 2025President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness".In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the president said that forcing more people into long-term psychiatric institutions would help make America's streets safer, although he admitted it would be "massively expensive"."Well, they used to have them, and you never saw people like we had," Trump said. "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... they released them into society, and that’s what you have. It’s a rough, it’s a rough situation."He added: "You can’t have these people walking around... so dangerous, so dangerous. And they can live to be 85 years old."
And I would like to point out two things: the first is that Trump thinks us insane. And the second, places where people are forced into internment camps without a trial or legal recourse are called concentration camps.
