>> During the roundtable event, Trump brushed off a question from a Texas reporter concerning whether locals were properly notified in advance of the floods. When asked if he had a message for families who were upset about the alert system, Trump said, he thought "everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances." He later added, "Only a very evil person would ask a question like that."<<

Meanwhile, Noem's requirement that every expenditure for FEMA above 100k be directly vetted by her provided a delay in this case and showed a pointless bureaucratic micromanagement that cost time and lives. Noem wanted to exhibit a high profile cost cutting measure to parade before be new church of efficiency, now spread beyond Doge, who's high priest is now removed and threatened with literal exile.

But look at the thin skin here. A reporter asks about this and Trump reacts with this kind of hostility. Evil? From the guy who wants to extirpate (look it up) FEMA?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.