REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn't go out in time. What do you say to those families?

[demmiblue]

REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn't go out in time. What do you say to those families?

TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil person would ask a question like that.

REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn't go out in time. What do you say to those families?

TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil person would ask a question like that.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-11T20:19:50.372Z

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[SheltieLover]

1. Easy answer: "vote them out."

[MacKasey]

2. Only a guilty person would answer a question like he just did!

[LakeVermilion]

56. The question should be:

If Joe Biden was president, you would certainly blame him wouldn't you? Would you blame Governor Gavin Newsom if it happened in California? How is that different?

[malaise]

3. Most dead in over 100 years in a flood in Texas

Incredible incompetence is what was on display - this was not an incredible effin job.

[questionseverything]

4. Remember the search and rescue boats didn't go out for 3 days

Because “fema barbie” didn’t send them out, she was too busy posting pictures of herself playing cowgirl

[lostnfound]

25. Is that true?? OMG that is AWFUL. Three days???? UFB. Nt

[questionseverything]

27. Yes it's true, rhiaannon12866 posted a video clip

Of representative Jared Moskowitz (d-fla) saying the woman in charge changed the system so anything over $100,000 had to personally be approved by her and she didn’t approve sending search and rescue for 72 hours.

He is the former director of emergency management of Florida and he was furious…said every system that worked to save lives was scrapped, just heartbreaking 💔

[AloeVera]

28. Did FEMA send the request right away?

I assume they did. But regardless, as the person in charge, she not only should have approved it immediately, but ensured everything was in place and operations were proceeding. She didn't even know for 3 days it was on hold? Worse, maybe she did...There is no excuse for this. I hope there is a full investigation. She makes Brownie look half-good.

[cayugafalls]

5. And the reporter should have said the only evil here is you.

It is not evil to ask a question it is evil to demonize reporters for doing their job

[hamsterjill]

50. Exactly! When are these reporters going to start saying something back.

She should have said, "I'm not an evil person, Sir. I'm asking a question that has been posed to me by some of the families."

And every goddamn media person in that room should have backed her up.

[cayugafalls]

51. Much better than calling him evil...

I probably would not be able to keep my cool...lol

[Skittles]

6. I'm surprised he didn't wish her into the cornfield

[chouchou]

9. I remember that one. It's a good thing..It's a very good thing....

Creepy ass little f*cker....

[Skittles]

12. yup

the people around that kid behave just like Trump's bootlickers

[Celerity]

17. ....

[electric_blue68]

43. Oh, geeeebzzz, I read the Short Story first...

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

55. Yes, a very good short story by Jerome Bixby.

It’s good that Jerome wrote that story, it’s real good, isn’t it?

[electric_blue68]

57. Ha, I don't know if I'd call it "good"; NOT an SF-horror fan, but Effective? Yeah!

😄

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Thanks. You beat me to it.

Every day I think, “This is it; we’ve hit bottom now.”

No, we haven’t.

And good afternoon.

[Skittles]

13. there IS no bottom with repukes

they will always, ALWAYS find a way to go lower

[Diamond_Dog]

15. Me too.

Yet the MAGA cult applauds this disgraceful shit show.

[AStern]

8. The media won't push back on this. They'll continue to bend over backward for him.

nt

[usonian]

10. Translation: I'm guilty as f&&k.

[intheflow]

11. Calling families evil.

Yeah, that's a great plan. Soooo presidential.

[Iris]

18. His rhetoric is chilling

[Bettie]

23. At least he didn't say "everybody dies eventually!"....

but it was a verbal middle finger to everyone who lost a family member.

[Solly Mack]

14. So the families of the dead are evil and bad?

[Prairie Gates]

16. The fact that every reporter doesn't stand up and walk out will be studied in journalism history

Supposing anybody survives this catastrophe.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

19. The faces of Climatic Malfeasance.

STFU TACO

[Iris]

20. "Heck of a job, Brownie"

[Rebl2]

21. Didn't that

county or town refuse money Biden administration provided for help with flooding in that area? I think the city council or commissioners refused that money that was offered. I believe it was millions of dollars.

[JHB]

47. No, they didn't refuse it, they kept the money so it wouldn't go to blue states

3-minute video on this

[spanone]

22. He's such a shit stain.

[oasis]

24. To paraphrase a sticker I saw on Bluesky

“My dog could shit a better president”.

[UpInArms]

26. Take responsibility

For denying the grant they requested in 2017 … after the Obama grant expired …cuz they didn’t want that communist money

[ananda]

29. I think all or most of those families vote Republican.

So ....

[iemanja]

30. So they deserve to die?!

[paleotn]

32. Actions meet consequences perhaps?

:

[Keepthesoulalive]

33. No they should wake up

This was preventable but they would not take the money Biden offered , something about communism and deep state. You have to vote and vote for the person who wants to save your community and the world from global catastrophe. Please stop acting like they didn’t have a hand in this. It is not Gods will it is stupidity and corruption.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

36. Exactly!

The only blame for this from top to bottom, lies strictly with the Republicans.

[iemanja]

38. You didn't make the comment

So you don’t know what was in her mind. “No,” doesn’t appear consistent with the text of that post.

What I “act like” is that human life matters, and I don’t wish people dead because they don’t think like I want them to. Additionally, you have no idea if those families had any role in the use of those funds, which were diverted to law enforcement by politicians. And of course many children died, and they have no say in politics.

[Keepthesoulalive]

52. No one other than magas wish people dead

I looked at video of the meeting where they refused funds to shore up their safety response , I gave condensed quotes but that is what they were saying when they refused funds. The lady who cried tears about how they had been abandoned and they were human , wanted to see alligators eating people at that torture prison in Florida. She also stated people receiving government assistance were takers but we all know she thinks she’s special and should get that assistance. Children and adults didn’t have to die but blame the voters for their bad and selfish decisions . The democrats have fought to help all the people and look at the response of the republican presidents. Hurricane Andrew, hurricane Katrina and now flooding in Texas. It is incumbent upon them to vote for help rather than hate.

[ananda]

46. No, it's not a question of "deserve" at all.

It's a question of whether they mind living
without hate in order to get the government
they need in order to survive and have a
better life.

[iemanja]

48. Children died

They aren’t the ones full of hatred.

[ananda]

49. They don't vote either.

And, believe me, they are being groomed.

[iemanja]

59. And?

They should die for it?

[paleotn]

31. Go die you fucking bastard.

[Nasruddin]

34. Clown

Heckuva job, Brownie!

[MrWowWow]

35. Attn Families of the Dead

Litigate! Litigate! Litigate! Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!

Stop being victimized. Stop voting for your oppressor.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

37. They will litigate

and still vote republican.

[Picaro]

39. Only someone that feels culpable would respond to a perfectly reasonable question like that

[Nigrum Cattus]

40. Where is the magat hat ?

I guess 120 dead children & adults isn't great huh ?

[wiggs]

41. Question: prior to 2025 didn't NOAA do more than just issue forecasts for weather events? Didn't we hear

recently that NOAA had...HAD...people that followup with with coordination and communication? A connection to local govts?

Is it gaslighting to just say... well NOAA did their job by issuing a warning? Has that been the case prior to 2025 as well?

[wiggs]

60. HCR fills in some blanks...yes there was someone at National Weather Service responsible for interfacing with

local agencies re storm response. He/they had been pushed out by DOGE and not replaced. Add that to Texas MAGA resistance to govt assistance and add that to Noem's 3 day delay after the storm which was out of the norm (FEMA used to arrive BEFORE the storms)...and we can conclude that what we see in MSM and from fed govt is gaslighting and downplaying failure.

There will be more.

[Initech]

44. Hey Trump, YOU ARE THE BAD AND EVIL PERSON! GET OUT OF THAT OFFICE NOW!!!

[Paladin]

45. Piece-of-shit president, on full display.

As if those poor families don't have enough to grieve about.

[Bread and Circuses]

53. Consequences of Texas' libertarian governments , at all levels. Meaning...you're on your own.

[Botany]

54. Not only did the local republicans in Kerr County reject the idea of a paid for flash flood warning system...

… in 2021 because it was from President Biden but Trump and Musk forced the meteorologist with
20+ years experience to from the National Weather Service whose job it was to warn state and local officials of a flood along the Guadalupe River to retire early.

The blood is on Republican hands and on the likes of Fox News too who have told their listeners not
to believe or work with democrats.

[Emile]

58. Sits on his hemorrhoidal ass and points his shit stained finger.

Worthless piece of shit, who is afraid of taking responsibility.