In Front of Our Noses: Abuse of Power for Partisan Aims
Trump has been basing disaster funding to states based on local partisan control.
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”-George Orwell.
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Via Politico (It’s 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump) comes this remarkable chart:
President Donald Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
He approved just 23 percent of disaster funding requests from states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators since returning to office 14 months ago. For states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators, it’s the opposite — Trump has approved 89 percent of their requests.
This directly lines up with his rhetoric, wherein he talks like he is only the president of Republicans, and that Democrats are the enemy.
This is not how presidents should act. And yet, here we are.
There are a number of telling details in the piece, which is worth a full read.
What a nasty, petty little man he is.
I’d be hard-pressed to name one thing this fuck-tard has done in an appropriate manner.
What’s especially galling about all of this is that I’m pretty sure I heard complaints about Biden from the right about this same thing (specifically, hurricane relief aid in NC). I suspect that was mostly propaganda, but here we are with Trump being his typical petty self and doing this exact thing, and it’s crickets.
@reid:
As the saying goes, every accusation is a confession.
@reid:
In fairness, this was a Politico piece (but I do take the basic point).
And also in fairness, where does the evening news slot this in amid the Iran war, the TSA mess, No Kings, and everything else going on daily?
Indeed, that is why I put in the “In Front of Our Noses” section. It is impossible to keep up!!
This media piece, as with so much of Trump coverage, speaks for itself, and commenters such as we are, having been inundated by a daily stream of similar moral/ethical breaches by the Sociopath-in-Chief, are left only to curse and shake our heads. And offer tangible support to the midterms and beyond.
Who can be surprised?
Even before he came down that escalator in 2015 I always thought Trump was a greaseball, a guy with no redeeming qualities. Ten years in and you’d think a few Republicans would actually care about America, but about 99% of the Republican congressional delegation is apparently okay with this.
The question is, will the 2026 midterm change any of this?
@al Ameda:
Republicans have gone from telling Nixon to resign to enthusiastically accepting anything and everything from Trump. And the degradation can be seen every step along the way from the GOP to MAGA. They cannot learn. They should be sent into the desert.
@Steven L. Taylor: I should have finished my sentence… the crickets are from the people who were complaining about the Biden administration allegedly doing the same thing. If only the country could be run on the power of hypocrisy….
The 3-D President: Dishonest, Deceitful, Divisive.
Didn’t Trumps COVID response team openly discuss not sending supplies to blue areas?