Trump claims homelessness ‘is a phenomenon that only started two years ago’

President Donald Trump seemingly took credit for homelessness starting during his administration during a bizarre interview with Fox News personality Tucker Carlson.

"You come to where we are now, Osaka, or Tokyo and the cities are clean, there's no graffiti, no one going to the bathroom on the streets," Carlson said. "Very different than our cities."

"New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles have a major problem with filth," he argued.

"It's very sad," Trump replied.

"Why is that?" Carlson asked.

"It's a phenomenon that started two years ago," Trump claimed.

"It's disgraceful. I'm going to maybe -- and I'm looking at it very seriously -- we're doing some other things, as you've probably noticed, like some of the very important things we're doing now," he said.

"You can't have what's happening, where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat. I'm mean, they're actually getting very sick," Trump said, without evidence.

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