Trump tells suburban housewives ‘Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream’
PRESIDENT Donald Trump tried appealing to the “Suburban Housewives of America” on Thursday by telling them Joe Biden “will destroy your neighborhood.”
Trump tweeted out a link to a New York Post opinion article titled, “Joe Biden’s disastrous plans for America’s suburbs.”
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The president insisted that if Biden is elected president, he will destroy their “American Dream.”
But if he’s re-elected, Trump said he “will preserve it, and make it even better!”
The author of the Post op-ed wrote about the Trump administration saying on Thursday that it was revoking the Obama-era housing regulation Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs.
The piece reads: “If you live in the suburbs or you’re a city dweller eyeing a move to a quiet cul-de-sac where your kids can play outside, you need to know about Joe Biden’s plan for a federal takeover of local zoning laws.
“The ex-veep wants to ramp up an Obama-era social engineering scheme called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing that mercifully barely got underway before President Trump took office, vowing to stop it.”
The author said that Biden’s plan is “to force suburban towns with single-family homes and minimum lot sizes to build high-density affordable housing smack in the middle of their leafy neighborhoods — local preferences and local control be damned.”
Trump characterized the 2015 rule as an existential threat to the suburban way of life that will bring about more crime and lower home prices.
In a statement, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said the regulation was “unworkable and ultimately a waste of time for localities to comply with.”
Trump said last week: “Your home will go down in value and crime rates will rapidly rise.”
“People have worked all their lives to get into a community, and now they’re going to watch it go to hell. Not going to happen, not while I’m here.”
On Twitter on Thursday, Trump was mocked for using the term “housewife” instead of just women.
Ted Lieu, a Democratic rep from California, tweeted: “Dear @realDonaldTrump: We live in the suburbs and have no idea what you are talking about.
“Suburbs would be safer under @JoeBiden. All the chaos Americans are seeing is under your watch & inflamed by you.
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“Also, my wife is a lawyer. Do you view suburban women only as Housewives?” Lieu questioned.
A BBC journalist tweeted: “‘The Suburban Housewives of America’” Is Mad Men (series 1) in charge of his campaign?”
Paul Farhi, who works for The Washington Post, tweeted: “Honestly thought at first that ‘The Suburban Housewives of America’ was going to refer to a new reality show on Bravo.”