Caitlyn Jenner (or ‘Cailyn’ according to her own campaign) started trending on Twitter Wednesday night after her interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity aired, but not for reasons she’d hope for.
Jenner appeared on the program to talk about her widely-criticized California gubernatorial run, and while she touched on a variety of topics from police reform to immigration, one statement about the homeless crisis in California really stuck out like a sore thumb.
She said one of the reasons she’s running for governor is that the guy who occupies the private airplane hanger across from her own had decided to “pack up his hanger” and move to Arizona because he’s sick of seeing homeless people.
“My friends are leaving California,” Jenner said during the interview, which was conducted inside her personal hangar in Malibu. “My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, ‘Where are you going? And he says, ‘I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can’t take it here anymore. I can’t walk down the streets and see the homeless.'”
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She added, “I don’t want to leave, either I stay and fight or I get outta here.”
Caitlyn Jenner to Hannity: "My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, where are you going? And he says, 'I'm moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can't take it anymore. I can't walk down the streets and see the homeless'" pic.twitter.com/Z1WbBBQXq7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2021
And then came the responses…
When you lost the private airplane hanger crowd… https://t.co/PkLPXZ7VwA
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 6, 2021
Caitlyn Jenner: Why are there homeless people outside of my airplane hanger?
Caitlyn’s Assistant: Ma’am, I think that’s just Randy Quaid.
— Blake Hammond (@BigRadMachine) May 6, 2021
Love to appeal to the working class by hanging in my private jet hangar and complaining about how there's too many poor people https://t.co/agCgnnTXmu
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 6, 2021
I mean, i don’t know how the private airplane hanger people do it, its just too much pain to see all the homeless people. I get how he had to pack up his hangar to move to AZ. Thoughts and prayers https://t.co/nw8901zTOY
— Krista (@kaya3) May 6, 2021
Let’s start with fuck you and your airplane hanger. And your neighbor and his hanger too. https://t.co/80jOxBuMra
— steven pasquale (@StevePasquale) May 6, 2021
Imagine being wealthy enough to help the poor but instead you’re so tired of seeing them on the streets that you pack up your private airplane hanger and move. That is cartoon level evil. https://t.co/ADOueLFWsQ
— Blake Ross (@BlakeRossVO) May 6, 2021
Hi @Caitlyn_Jenner. If you don’t like the homeless situation, instead of hiding in your PRIVATE PLANE HANGAR, your campaign should be about helping them. They don’t like their situation either.
Your lifelong privilege is showing. It’s not a good color. https://t.co/AF8g64HYLA— Merrin Dungey (@RealMerrinD) May 6, 2021
As far as I’m concerned, any time someone with a private plane is packing up their hangar and leaving California it’s a good day, pic.twitter.com/9A0qjng6pi
— ken olin (@kenolin1) May 6, 2021
Love to appeal to the working class by hanging in my private jet hangar and complaining about how there's too many poor people https://t.co/agCgnnTXmu
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 6, 2021
can’t even go to my private jet hangar without being reminded the poors exist https://t.co/nt5BG9FvGF
— kilgore trout, toilet sword ninja (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 6, 2021
If you're packing up your plane hangar to move to Sedona because you don't want to walk part the homeless, I hope you fly into a guillotine
— Kevin Gates (@ButNotTheRapper) May 6, 2021
If you don’t like seeing homeless people and you have your own HANGAR maybe use some of your money to help homeless people be not homeless.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 6, 2021
Discussions with your airline hangar neighbors are very relatable to the average voter https://t.co/m4HOLV94Df
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) May 6, 2021
What a heartbreaking story! Packing up his hangar and moving to Sedona! Who will think of those overlooked elites who have to be mildly inconvenienced by the poors! https://t.co/H5JkSiPmWr
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) May 6, 2021
Fahd
As if Jenner had the first clue of what to do about homelessness. Discussing it in such an uninformed and insensitive way underscores her cluelessness.
About 25% of the nation’s homeless live in California (I think it’s the weather). It’s something like 150,000 homeless people in California. Not adequately addressing and managing (setting aside “solving”) the problem of homelessness is one of the greatest failures of government in modern times, most recently since the 1980s. Governments rely on appointing countless taskforces that go around in circles and other forms of lip-service that ultimately do little to nothing to alleviate the plight of the homeless. Private charities just aren’t up to the magnitude of the problem. Creative solutions run up against “anti-entitlement” thinking rooted in glorifying capitalism.
A candidate who actually had a viable plan and was effective in addressing homelessness could go far, but Ms. Jenner is just a run-of-the-mill crank complaining about how unsightly the homeless are. Does she somehow actually think she’s qualified to be governor? Delusional.
GlobeTrotter
Years ago after college I moved to San Francisco to find a job. A high school friend of mine was living in a small apartment on Haight Street, so I was lucky I had a place to stay. Every morning I would get up and hit the road for job interviews. This meant I had to go to bed pretty early, which was hard for me, since I’m a night owl.
Well one night a group of homeless guys, about 5 or 6, decided to play their drums right under my window. At first I tried ignoring them, thinking they would stop after a few minutes, but they just kept going on and on and on. After about an hour, I just couldn’t take it anymore, so I went downstairs to ask if they couldn’t play somewhere else. Eventually we struck up a conversation, and me being curious about all the thousands of homeless people in SF, I decided to ask why they were homeless.
They explained it this way: apparently most of the homeless people in San Francisco are NOT actually from San Francisco. Most aren’t even from the State of California. The homeless guy I was talking to came from Illinois, and all the other guys came from different states. They explained that homeless people from all the country are attracted to SF because of the great weather and because California provides them a monthly sum of money, plus they’re soup kitchens and free clinics scattered all over the city. That one guy told me how he used to be homeless on the streets of Chicago, and how after he got fed up with the cold, he bought a one way ticket to San Francisco and never looked back. He loves it there, and will never leave. He doesn’t need to get a job, because everything he gets everything he needs. He actually felt sorry for me, since I was worried about finding a job, constantly short on cash, etc.
Just some food for thought…
Fahd
@Globetrotter
Actually San Francisco stopped decades ago paying those payments for which they had become famous. Many “performance artists” made use of the “grants’ though which I think is how they’ve gotten in to the urban lore.
The notion that people are homeless because they want to be homeless may be true for a small percentage of the homeless – after all, some are pretty ornery – but calling that food for thought shouldn’t make anyone feel better.
The overwhelming percentage are not homeless of their own free will. Many homeless are victims of a series of bad breaks or deal with mental illness, addiction, receiving a Social Security check of $650 per month when an apartment costs a minimum of $1200/month, etc.
So not to undervalue your personal experience of talking to some homeless guys on the street in SF years ago, it doesn’t help with to understand or address the magnitude of the actual problem.
Chrisk
GlobeTrotter
Yes it’s something that I’ve tried to explain to the right wing trolls on sites like YouTube when they show the homeless. California is a beacon for all the homeless to come. I don’t blame them.
I think the government could be doing allot more but the issue is way more complicated than these dipshit Republicans are making it out to be.
GlobeTrotter
@Fahd: Well, this was way back in the late 90’s, I’m not sure if California still pays homeless people now. I also remember going to the hospital for some treatment, and being completely broke at the time, I had no way of paying the bill. After they handed me the bill, which was something like $300, I talked to the lady at the window and asked if there was anyway to pay it in installments, as I’d just graduated and was still looking for a job. She told me, “don’t worry honey, just write on the back that you can’t afford it, and hand it back to me”. I did, and that was the last I ever heard of that bill!
A few years later after I’d moved back to NY, I heard on the news that California was bankrupt. I couldn’t help feeling a bit guilty that I might have contributed in some small way…
barryaksarben
so Globe trotter you spoke to 5 or 6 men a number you dont say how many and now you think you are an expert on the issue? Could they have been lying to you or could hey have been mentally ill or did they spot a rube? just wondering. Mental health issues are the number one reason for homelessness which if addressed properly would go a long way to solving it for many many people. They have homeless everywhere including Sedona. Whatever the reasons are if someone is attempting to run for high office this is a terrible response to this serious issue. What are the issues this person would think important if not in actually helping other citizens? I wonder what this person truly wants to acheive besides more attention?
GlobeTrotter
@barryaksarben: I don’t remember passing myself off as an “expert”, I simply recounted my experience. None of the guys I spoke to came across as mentally ill.
ShiningSex
i want to vomit on Caitlyn. gross in every way and a hypocrite.
LeBlevsez
She has a pilot’s license? Anyone else concerned?
Chrisk
This is what I’m going to love about the Caitlyn campaign. Keep letting her open her big privledged mouth. Let her embarrass the Republican party and show them as the morally bankrupt shitheads that they are.
PoetDaddy
I’m happy that Caitlyn Jenner found some personal happiness in her gender reassignment, but to have gone from heroic Bruce Jenner to this mewling Karen of unexamined privilege seems like the tanking of a potentially great life for one as a court jester.
Cam
California has gained population in the last 10 years. The only people leaving are the lazy, anti-American Republicans who want to hoard money and skip paying taxes.
The thing I love is that they’ll move to places like Texas or Idaho, and immediately start complaining about the weather, the lack of services, etc.
MHaumesser
Another tone deaf Republican! I’m shocked!
Joshooeerr
I Am Cait was an entire TV series demonstrating how clueless Jenner is. I can’t imagine anyone being surprised by another example of it now.
Jack
Is there anything redeeming about her? I really don’t think she is remotely aware of how much people dislike her. Tone deaf is the nicest thing you can say about her. I’m glad she went on Fox News to be used as a side show. She doesn’t represent any community accept the self important, clueless reality star class.
CityguyUSA
The wealthy are going to run and destroy what little value the middle and poor have in their properties leaving stuck in California maybe without water to drink. So round 2 of depreciating home values.
Florida just lost some of their water rights to Atlanta, I think. Yeah, Florida surrounded by water on 3 sides and stuffed full of it in the middle, rains everyday and floods out the streets but they aren’t going to have enough water.
Cam
Except real estate prices keep increasing in California. A few retired millionaires leaving means nothing. California’s population still increased over the least decade.
The fact of the matter is, huge portions of California are pleasant to live in weather-wise. Meanwhile states like Idaho, Utah, Arizona, etc.. have long stretches of the year where the weather makes them far less pleasant.
Jenner’s friends are welcome to leave.
Chrisk
Not sure if you’ve ever living in California but the home prices here are at a all time high. Prices in SoCal and the Bay area are mostly unaffordable to the middle class now. Even the great recession in 2008 didn’t pop that balloon.
Den
Property values in CA are quickly regaining what they lost at the height of covid. Rents are raising again as well. This has been the first year in decades that California has seen a decrease in population, and it is small. Yes, homelessness is a problem here in cities like SF and LA, but it is multifaceted having as much to do with the Republican love of withdrawing access to services for those that need them the most (starting in the Reagan governorship years, and then moving on up to the federal level as well), an inability to understand how to reduce drug dependence and trafficking, and an unwillingness to invest in low-income housing.
The right loves the myth of “lazy people who don’t want to work”, and close their ears when you talk about those disabled or beaten down by circumstance. Rather than safety nets republicans and (especially) libertarians think that the proper way to deal with homelessness is to increase their suffering. And make no mistake, San Francisco has many libertarians among its techie nouveau riche who fancy themselves liberal democrats but oppose progressive public health and welfare policy.
Hdtex
Dude looks like a dude.
An UGLY dude in a cheap wig.
butchqueen
Bury her like the turd she is!
Invader7
Karma is a bitch. She’ll talk her way into defeat …
cuteguy
This train wreck is only helping Gavin
Marcos
What an ugly human being inside Caitlyn Jenner is.