Trump finds one other girl to lie about: Mom Nature | Jive Update

Trump finds one other girl to lie about: Mom Nature


Hey and joyful Tuesday. There are 28 days till the election, and the MAGA lies are spinning sooner than Hurricane Milton.

Milton, you could have heard, has grown to a Class 5 monster that’s set to hit Florida on Wednesday. It might be extra damaging than Hurricane Helene, which devastated six states together with Georgia and North Carolina just some days in the past. Already, Florida authorities are urging folks to evacuate.

Definitely, there might be injury and our federal authorities will reply. Federal authorities have already deployed 1000’s of Nationwide Guard troops and tens of millions of {dollars} in support to states hit by Helene.

However that’s not how Donald Trump is telling it, after all.

You’d suppose with that comb-over Trump would need to keep away from excessive winds, however as an alternative he’s leaping right into a whirlwind of whoppers with the keenness of Elon Musk on a rally stage.

Let’s soar in ourselves — stomach buttons coated, please.

Donald Trump visits a furnishings retailer in Valdosta, Ga., broken by Hurricane Helene.

(Michael M. Santiago / Getty Photos)

One other girl MAGA hates: Mom Nature

First, a reminder that local weather change is actual, and is more and more changing into a political subject because it drives folks from their properties, collapses our insurance coverage mannequin and creates what I’m dubbing local weather poverty — the multigenerational lack of ability to get well after shedding all the pieces to a pure catastrophe.

We’re short-memoried creatures, so many people not affected by final yr’s worst hurricane, Idalia, can have forgotten she brought about 12 deaths and $3.6 billion in injury — and sparked now-common conversations (for some, anyway) concerning the rising penalties of local weather change not simply in our forests or alongside our coasts, however in each neighborhood the place tornadoes, floods or different pure disasters have gotten extra frequent and extra fierce.

Simply ask Sanibel Island, which Idalia leveled in 2023 and which is now underneath an evacuation order for Milton, whereas nonetheless cleansing up from Helene (which thus far is liable for the deaths of 230 folks) — you may deny science all you need, Mom Nature doesn’t care.

Trump seemingly doesn’t care both, about reality or restoration.

Trump (with the assistance of his latest finest buddy Musk, sorry JD) wasted no time in pivoting from lies concerning the immigrant neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, (so final week!) to falsely claiming that the Federal Emergency Administration Company isn’t serving to hurricane survivors; is giving catastrophe reduction funds to migrants as an alternative; is just serving to Democrats; is seizing land. You get the concept.

“The GREAT folks of North Carolina are being stood up by Harris and Biden, who’re giving virtually the entire FEMA cash to Unlawful Migrants in what’s now thought of to be the WORST rescue operation within the historical past of the U.S. On high of that, Billions of {Dollars} goes to international international locations! NORTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ABANDONED BY KAMALA!!!”

That’s Trump Monday on Fact Social. The grammar police in me need to level out: Billions of {dollars} are going. Are! Not is. However it’s a nonsensical fear-mongering assertion, so I don’t know why I care. However I do.

Extra to the purpose, “It’s frankly disappointing that we’re having to cope with this narrative and the truth that there’s a couple of leaders which are having a tough time telling the distinction between truth and fiction is creating an impedance to our means to really get folks the assistance they want,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell informed MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

It’s gotten so dangerous, FEMA needed to arrange a whole “rumor response” internet web page.

Election chaos

You can chalk this as much as the MAGA lie of the week, however with such a short while till the election (and early voting already underway in some locations) the rancor, confusion and worry Trump is inflicting may have an impact.

The nucleus of Trump’s FEMA bashing, considerably predictably, is about immigration — particularly the declare that FEMA cash is being diverted from serving to U.S. citizen catastrophe survivors to undocumented immigrants on the border.

Like many Trump lies, this one grew out of a truth, like a tumor off a wholesome cell.

FEMA does run a program for migrants, together with U.S. Customs and Border Safety. It’s known as the Shelter and Providers Program and in 2024 it obtained about $640 million from its personal funding bucket, totally separate from catastrophe reduction cash.

This system offers grants to outdoors businesses to assist migrants who’ve crossed the border, each to avoid wasting lives and assist border communities that simply don’t have the sources to assist the 1000’s of people that enter the U.S. with out documentation annually. Sure, of us — our immigration system does want fixing.

However — as he did with Springfield — Trump is doubling and tripling down on these lies whilst some Republican governors and lawmakers in affected states affirm that FEMA is on the bottom in a giant approach and support is offered. This yr, FEMA obtained $35 billion in funding for disasters — however that’s not sufficient.

The Musk issue

Including to the chaos, Musk promoted a rumor on his cesspool social media website X that volunteers have been being hampered by federal authorities and that airspace was being closed so assist couldn’t get in. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg really needed to converse with Musk personally to quash that one.

It seems that in a catastrophe, it’s frequent for federal authorities to take over dealing with airspace as a result of it will get sophisticated quick with so many businesses and personal events all wanting to assist. That’s plenty of helicopters, planes and even drones zipping round. So, no — the U.S. authorities wasn’t stopping support, simply avoiding crashes.

However the injury from all these lies is completed. Apart from the confusion it has brought about for survivors, this significantly vicious and racist little bit of propaganda — that Kamala Harris helps immigrants over U.S. residents — has embedded itself in swing state psyches. Folks consider that we’re out of cash as a result of the border is uncontrolled.

However the reality is way scarier, although you received’t discover a MAGA politician prepared to confess it.

In 2023, the U.S. skilled a report variety of disasters that price greater than $1 billion — 28 in all. FEMA warned it was working out of cash that yr, too.

This yr, by August, we had 19 billion-dollar occasions, not counting the current hurricanes, and with a comparatively gentle hearth season.

We’re working out of catastrophe reduction cash as a result of local weather change is inflicting extra and worse disasters. That may be a actuality we have to plan for — however I’ll go away you with this.

Challenge 2025, which Trump claims to know nothing about, requires privatizing FEMA and casting off the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which tracks hurricanes.

What may probably go fallacious?

What else you need to be studying:

The must-listen: “Name Her Daddy” podcast with Kamala Harris
The L.A. Occasions particular I: Will an inflow of Californians into Arizona tilt the battleground state’s politics?
The L.A. Occasions particular II: Within the coronary heart of Appalachia, a distant cousin of JD Vance leads an opposing “genuine hillbilly” motion

Keep Golden,
Anita Chabria

P.S. The Harris marketing campaign isn’t letting the lies go unchecked. Right here’s its response: Clips of Republican governors saying they’re receiving federal support:

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