An American liberal said he has swung to the right and is backing Donald Trump’s crime crackdown after experiencing widespread paranoia over thefts in London.
Ari S. Goldberg, a travel TikToker, sparked debate across social media after sharing a ‘surprising’ conversation he had with a British man on the train while taking a trip to the capital.
He said that they started discussing the state of London amid rising phone thefts and daylight robberies in the city, and was stunned to be told: ‘For all his flaws, we want Trump here.’
Goldberg said he was a staunch Democrat who voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over Trump in recent elections, but his opinions shifted after being warned over London’s crime issues.
In a calm and considered vlog, Goldberg said he was told ‘crime is out of control here’, and was cautioned not to walk down the street with his phone out or to wear a nice watch because it may get stolen.
‘Even right now, I’m about to turn a corner on a street, I gotta worry about holding my phone because some moron might come by an an E-bike and try to grab it,’ he said as he filmed the clip.
‘What’s going on around right now is a real problem,’ he said. ‘The crime rates in these places are unnecessary, they’re making our favorite big cities unsafe.’
The conversation took place amid growing controversy in the US over Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to several Democrat-led cities to handle claims of out-of-control crime.
Aris Goldberg, self-described liberal, said he has swung to the right and is backing Donald Trump’s crime crackdown after experiencing widespread paranoia over crime in London
Goldberg said he was stunned by the claim from a ‘good, level headed’ British man that he would want Trump in charge because of how divisive politics is in the US with him in the White House.
‘America is more polarized than we’ve been in years,’ he said.
He said that while he has never voted for Trump and didn’t support him, being warned over crime in London has made him ‘make the swing fast’ to backing the Republican.
The driving force for this shift is a soft-on-crime approach to handling offenders, Goldberg said, that left him scratching his head over why people wouldn’t want criminals to go to jail.
‘Listen man, we’re either gonna have laws or we’re not,’ he continued. ‘Break the law, go to jail.
‘You want to play by the rules, play by the law, you should be good, if you don’t, there should be consequences.’
Goldberg, a travel influencer on social media, said he was stunned by the number of people in London who warned him to be cautious about brazen daylight robberies
Goldberg said he was warned by numerous people during his trip to be careful not to be targeted by brazen thieves in broad daylight.
‘It’s pushing out good quality people, it’s attracting bad quality people, and it’s not a good quality of life for anybody,’ he said.
‘Everybody should have a good quality of life, everybody should be entitled to their safety.’
He concluded that British people would still have ‘a lot of problems’ with Trump, but felt that his tough stance on crime would be enough to make the president popular in the current circumstances.
‘They want that sort of enforcement, they want someone that comes in and says, this is the law, you either follow the law or get out.’
