[ April 10, 2026 ]
Common sense leadership.
The left’s failed policies turned our cities into open-air asylums. Time to bring sanity back.
🚨ALERT: President Trump Drops a Bombshell by Announcing Reopening of Mental Institutions, Labeling Their Closure a "Catastrophic Mistake".
Trump vowed to "bring back the asylums" to address untreated mental illness plaguing American cities. pic.twitter.com/St9VLK27mf
— TRUMP ARMY_ (@TRUMP_ARMY_) September 27, 2025
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America made a serious mistake when we stopped putting the mentally ill into asylums and instead just started giving them drugs or handing them a podcast. pic.twitter.com/PExJXfBKZt
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 25, 2025
Trump says he’d consider reopening ‘insane asylums’ to help clean up some of the nation’s biggest cities
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’
The Independent, September 2025:
President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back “insane asylums” to imprison people with “serious mental illness”.
ADVERTISEMENTIn 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.”
Neither Trump nor the Daily Caller made clear exactly what they meant by “insane asylums”. But the term is usually applied to an older kind of psychiatric institution in which those deemed mentally ill could be involuntarily confined for months or years, often in brutal conditions and with little medical effect.
Repeated abuse scandals, court judgements, and new mental health medications — as well as the system’s vast expense — led to a wave of reforms that made it much more legally difficult to detain a sick person for long periods of time, ultimately cutting the population of such facilities by over 90 percent.
But some doctors and politicians have also criticized the new status quo, arguing that it has left large numbers of vulnerable people with mental illnesses living rough on the streets or cycling in and out of jails, general hospitals, and short-term psychiatric facilities.
ADVERTISEMENTTrump has long expressed support for bringing back asylums. On the campaign trail, he reportedly promised: “When I am back in the White House, we will use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our streets…
“And for those who are severely mentally ill and deeply disturbed, we will bring them back to mental institutions, where they belong… with the goal of reintegrating them back into society once they are well enough to manage.”
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