CALIFORNIA/LAWSUITS/SPORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [2-18-20] veered into politics during a briefing on preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, criticizing the city’s political leadership for failing to curtail its homelessness epidemic. Trump said if Los Angeles doesn’t ‘clean it up fast,’ he will intervene. ‘If they can’t do it themselves, we’re going to do it,’ Trump said. ‘The federal government is going to take it over, we’re going to do it.’ Trump has battled with California’s Democratic leaders throughout his three years in office, with state Attorney General Xavier Becerra filing dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration over environmental regulations, immigration issues and other White House policies. The president also has repeatedly lashed out against the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who represents a San Francisco district, over the homeless issues in those cities.”
–Zeke Miller, “Trump vows to ‘clean up’ LA at Olympic meeting briefing,” Associated Press, February 18, 2020