Trump claims FEMA is getting ‘in the way’ and pitches abolishing it during first interview since return to White House

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1. This will definitely age well during Hurricane season

2. Just go throw some paper towels on the storm surge.

3. This man is an enemy of the US. It could not be more clear what he is doing.

4. Trump dickriders in Florida are really gonna eat shit with this one

5. I think Trump is “getting in the way.”

   ETA: LA County alone pays more in federal income taxes than most states do—$80 billion. That’s 4% of total revenues. Don’t fuck with us.

6. Red gulf states better start saving. If the feds won’t help California then go fuck yourselves during hurricane and tornado season.

7. Let’s start with making sure no red states ever get blue state money. They want to play, then I same game on!

8. “getting in the way” of his cohorts pocketing relief money directly

9. Well one of my friends who is in FEMA voted for Trump, can’t say I’d have much sympathy for her if this happens considering this is what she voted for

10. And the rightwing states will still praise him – while their lands are decimated.

11. Oh man, I remember the “FEMA concentration camps” conspiracy theories of the 90s. The FEMA troops were going to get their orders from messages on the back of highway signs. Good times!

    Anyway, we’re all totally fucked.

12. This way, all disaster funding can come with strings. Just like any good mobster.

    Destroy FEMA and make the states beg for needed money. All they have to do is keep certain people in power.

13. Ah yes, paving the way for privatized, for-profit disaster recovery brought to you by Walmart™️. Always low low prices, except when you need TP and water after a hurricane 🙂

14. >Trump wants to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency and let states handle their own disaster needs. ‘I don’t think we should give California anything.’ he said.

    Where to begin? So…poor southern states, located in “Tornado Alley”, will not get help from FEMA or get any kind of federal disaster relief. The same would apply to hurricane victims who build houses right on the beach. They’ll be on their own. These are states who, almost across the board, take more from the federal government than they give back.

    If he refuses to help California then California should stop sending the federal government a single fucking dime. I bet the only states who’ll get federal disaster relief will be red ones. I hate that man with every fiber of my being.

15. Say bye bye to the U.S. Fire Administration, which is also part of FEMA. No more federal funding for local fire departments. No national fire training academy. Plus all of the other stuff USFA does. And that’s just one sub agency.

16. If it means blue states will stop bailing out the red states that refuse to acknowledge climate change, I’m okay with it. I just want Republicans to suffer the consequences of their own actions.

17. Not having FEMA should work out really well for him during hurricane season.

18. “Trump wants to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency and let states handle their own disaster needs. ‘I don’t think we should give California
    anything,’ he said”

    OK, but then maybe California can’t send as much tax revenue to the feds?

19. Another Project 2025 goal

20. Trump’s disaster relief plan is to force States to given him something in return for Federal aid. FEMA gets in the way of that I guess.

21. Can’t imagine how dumb you have to be to work for FEMA, CDC, any healthcare job, any education job, and job that requires any skill or any intelligence and still voted for Trump.

    Then again I know of a few in my field (psych) that voted for Trump and I question their competency, neutrality, and professionalism.

22. Putin succeeded in his attempt to dismantle the USA

23. Please God, I ask for one small thing, please let a hurricane hit Mar-a-Largo head on.

24. If you tried to write a fictional character who was a Manchurian candidate for a foreign power intent on destroying the US, and you invented Trump, nobody would believe it was realistic. We have been invaded and taken over by a foreign power.

25. >Trump also threatened to cut off disaster aid for states that are run by Democrats if their state governments don’t help with his effort to enact a mass deportation of non-white migrants who’ve come to the U.S. in recent years, including those who are awaiting court dates to argue claims for asylum.

    Yikes

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