Donald Trump’s former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it.

Johnny McEntee, formerly the White House Presidential Personnel Office under the former president, posted a video on TikTok in which he discusses the purported scheme to “clean up the community.”

“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money, and I give them like a $5 bill, I feel good about myself, they feel good,” said McEntee, also a senior advisor to Project 2025. “And then when they go to use it, they get arrested, so I’m actually helping to clean up the community and get them off the street.”

  • Flying Squid
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    57 months ago

    What a weird coincidence. I posted this same image in an entirely different thread yesterday.

    • @jordanlund
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      47 months ago

      Well, it was the best pic I could find in Google. :)

      • Flying Squid
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        67 months ago

        Right, but it was on a totally different subject. Religious “tippers” in restaurants.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          Maybe not totally different. Both discussions are about self-righteous people being assholes to others.