While travelling back from his three-day working trip to California, the president argued that the image of San Francisco has long since changed, calling out the environmental state of the city. However, the mayor hit back, arguing there are no pressing ecological issues and stressing the city's fight for residents' wellbeing is in full throttle.
President Donald Trump warned San Francisco late on Wednesday that his administration would in the near future issue an environmental notice to the city, arguing that it is poorly handling what he referred to as the homelessness issue.
While on board Air Force One on his way back to Washington, DC from a trip to California and New Mexico, the president addressed reporters, stating that San Francisco was in “total violation” of environmental rules, specifically bringing up used needles that he said were ending up in the ocean, unable to get filtered out due to waste piling up in storm sewers.
“They're in serious violation”, Mr Trump summed up, adding in his signature straightforward manner:
“They have to clean it up. We can't have our cities going to hell”.
The comments naturally saw the mayor of San Francisco, a predominantly Democratic city, weigh in, branding the notification “ridiculous”.
Mayor London Breed retorted by mentioning that “one of the best” filter systems used in the city is to prevent debris from polluting the waters off the Californian coast.
“To be clear, San Francisco has a…
