Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida final Thursday, battering states like North Carolina and Georgia, leaving many areas with out energy or water, and claiming the lives of greater than 120 folks. And within the face of this catastrophe, Donald Trump has chosen to play politics.
Posting on his Fact Social platform Monday, he levied evidence-free assaults towards each President Joe Biden’s administration and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina. “[I] don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas. MAGA!” he wrote.
Studies by whom? Trump himself?
Because the Related Press stories, “Asheville, which was devastated by the storm, is solidly Democratic, as is much of Buncombe County, which surrounds it.”
However Trump didn’t cease there.
After Vice President Kamala Harris launched an announcement on X that she had spoken with Cooper and FEMA concerning search-and-rescue efforts, Trump posted a screenshot of the assertion and replied in a fashion paying homage to a scorned teenager.
“Another FAKE and STAGED photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing,” Trump wrote, referring to a picture of Harris working that accompanied her assertion. “Biden and Harris … sacrificed Americans to an Open Border, and now, they have left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South.”
He even trotted his false claims out in particular person, telling reporters in Valdosta, Georgia, that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was “having a hard time getting the president on the phone. I guess they’re not—they’re not being responsive.”
Nonetheless, that differs considerably from Kemp’s model of occasions. Throughout a press convention on Monday, Kemp mentioned that he’d spoken to Biden on Sunday. And based on the Georgia governor, Biden requested him, “Hey, what do you need?”
“I told him we got what we need, we’ll work through the federal process,” Kemp instructed reporters. “He offered that if there‘s other things we need, just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.”
The Biden-Harris administration is placing their heads down, working with authorities businesses and state governors to save lots of lives and clear up the devastation, as Trump goes on typical social media outbursts, drawing divisive traces within the sand. And it’s the American individuals who endure.
