AI Analysis
Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-28. Not written by the author of the post.
This late-night post amplifies a Jesse Watters commentary containing at least four documented falsehoods about Hurricane Helene disaster response — claims that officials confirmed were materially hindering active rescue operations at time of posting. The proxy-disinformation format (quoting Fox rather than claiming directly) provides structural deniability while propagating a grievance narrative of maximum emotional intensity: American disaster victims dying while migrants receive luxury hotels, funded by stolen FEMA money. Clinically, the post demonstrates immature defenses (projection, splitting, acting out), elevated antisocial and paranoid features, and a paranoid-ideation level causal claim (North Carolina blackouts caused by Biden/Harris hatred of Elon Musk). The cognitive content accessible here is Watters', not Trump's, limiting language-production analysis. Danger is rated elevated: stochastic terrorism markers are present (identified targets, articulated survival-level grievance, massive platform reach), dehumanizing language ('illegals') appears, and the real-world harm vector was already active — officials linked this disinformation ecosystem to threats against FEMA workers. The post is assessed as likely authentic Trump based on 12:39 AM local timing, consistent with late-night Fox News amplification behavior. No original Trump language appears, suggesting either strategic choice or declining interest in generating independent commentary.
- Timestamp 04:39 UTC = 12:39 AM EDT, squarely in authentic Trump late-night posting window
- Quote-plus-video-clip format is a signature Trump amplification behavior, consistent with late-night Fox News replay viewing
- No aide-characteristic polished framing text added around the quote
- Content selection (FEMA/migrant narrative) matches Trump's own concurrent campaign messaging verbatim
Trigger: Narcissistic Injury — Comparison (Jack Smith immunity brief filed that week; VP debate attention on Harris/Vance; competitive disaster-response narrative after Trump's own Valdosta visit)
Rage: Intensity 62% targeting Biden, Harris, FEMA, migrants
Elevated
Stochastic Terrorism Pattern Detected
- Dehumanizing categorical language ('illegals') targeting a specific population in emergency shelters
- Documented real-world harm: officials confirmed this disinformation ecosystem was hindering rescue operations and generating threats against FEMA workers at time of posting
- Stochastic terrorism structure present: named targets (Biden, Harris, FEMA, migrants), survival-level grievance (Americans dying because of stolen money), massive platform amplification
- Paranoid-ideation level causal chain ('hate Elon Musk') may resonate with followers predisposed to conspiratorial action frameworks
- No subsequent correction issued despite public debunking, sustaining harm vector
- Amplifying claims already publicly debunked as 'absolutely false' — denial of documented reality
- DARVO: Trump was being criticized for exploiting disaster victims; post reverses to cast Harris/Biden as the exploiters
- Attacks on institutional epistemic authority ('fake' government response) to close alternative information sources
- No acknowledgment of debunking despite multiple public official corrections prior to posting time
- North Carolina blackouts attributed to Biden/Harris hatred of Elon Musk rather than hurricane physical damage
- FEMA bankruptcy falsely attributed to migrant spending — funds are legally segregated
- Rescue operations characterized as 'blocked' when no credible evidence supports this
- $750 framing: initial seed payment presented as total disaster assistance
Dehumanizing Language Present
Death toll was approximately 200+ at time of posting, consistent with reported figures across major outlets and the known-events record.
White House and multiple officials called this claim 'absolutely false.' Known-events record explicitly documents this as disinformation.
Categorically denied by FEMA and White House. Called 'bald-faced lies' by officials. FEMA disaster relief funds are separate from immigration shelter spending. Known-events record flags explicitly.
$750 is the Serious Needs Assistance initial payment — a floor, not total aid. FEMA individual assistance extends well beyond this. The zero-sum framing of migrant accommodation vs. disaster aid is documented disinformation.
Infrastructure damage and power outages in North Carolina were caused by Hurricane Helene's physical destruction. The causal attribution to a personal political vendetta against Musk has no factual basis.
Harris made comments about equity in disaster response that were taken out of context. The implication that she would deny aid to non-equity-qualifying groups distorts the original statements.
No contradictions with other posts detected yet.
Trump spent the day weaponizing Hurricane Helene, mixing debunked claims about FEMA with GoFundMe charity links to position himself as the real responder while attacking the Biden administration. The evening started with campaign promotion and escalated into a late-night barrage targeting Liz Cheney...
Comprehensive Analysis: Trump Truth Social Post — 2024-10-04T04:39:03Z
Overview
This post is a verbatim quotation of Fox News host Jesse Watters making a series of claims about Hurricane Helene disaster response and FEMA. Trump appends no original text — the entire content is attributed speech amplified with an attached video clip. This "quote amplification" pattern is structurally significant: it allows Trump to propagate demonstrably false claims while retaining a thin layer of rhetorical deniability ("I'm just sharing what Jesse said"). The known-events record confirms the underlying claims were called "absolutely false" and "bald-faced lies" by White House officials, and that the disinformation was documented to have materially hindered recovery efforts.
1. Authorship Attribution
Local time reconstruction: At 04:39:03 UTC on October 4, 2024, Trump was almost certainly in the Eastern US. His documented movements place him in Georgia earlier that week (Hurricane Helene visit to Valdosta), and the Alabama-Georgia game was September 28 in Tuscaloosa. By October 4 he was likely back in New York or Florida. Eastern Daylight Time = UTC−4, making this 12:39 AM EDT — classic Trump posting window, consistent with late-night/early-morning Fox News replay viewing behavior.
Stylometric indicators favoring authentic Trump: The timing alone (past midnight local time) is a strong authenticity signal. The "quote + video clip" format is a signature Trump reposting pattern — he routinely amplifies Fox personalities verbatim with attached media. There is no polished prose to analyze since the content is entirely attributed to Watters, but the selection of this particular clip reflects Trump's interests: it attacks Harris, amplifies FEMA disinformation he was simultaneously spreading on the trail, and juxtaposes migrants against disaster victims — a core Trump activation narrative. An aide would more likely have added Trump's own language to frame the quote. The naked quote-and-clip format reads as authentic impulsive amplification.
Confidence: Medium-high (0.72) for authentic Trump, contingent on timing.
2. Multi-Level Personality Analysis
Level 1 — Dispositional Traits (Big Five)
The most salient facets here, expressed through content selection and amplification choices:
- Neuroticism (Angry Hostility): The selection of maximally outrage-inducing content — "disgracefully left behind," "living in the dark ages," "just tossing victims $750" — reflects a high-neuroticism filter for what merits sharing. Trump's curation choices are themselves personality data.
- Agreeableness (Low): The Watters quote is weaponized — the framing dehumanizes migrants ("illegals got luxury hotel rooms"), instrumentalizes disaster victims as political props, and attributes callous negligence to named political opponents. Extremely low agreeableness.
- Conscientiousness (Low): No attempt to verify, contextualize, or qualify the claims. The documented facts contradict multiple assertions, which officials noted impeded actual rescue operations. The post prioritizes rhetorical impact over accuracy.
- Openness (Low): Rigid ideological frame: migrants = parasites, government = corrupt, media (Fox) = truth-teller.
- Extraversion (High): Platform amplification of inflammatory content is itself an attention-seeking, excitement-seeking behavior.
Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations: Motives and Schemas
- Dominant motive: POWER/STATUS. The post serves an electoral dominance function — framing the opponent as not merely incompetent but malicious ("hate Elon Musk"), uncaring ("just tossing $750"), and corrupt ("spent FEMA cash on migrants"). This is competitive status positioning disguised as concern for victims.
- Achievement framing: Trump visited the disaster area (Valdosta, Samaritan's Purse supplies). This post implicitly contrasts his action against Biden/Harris inaction, reinforcing the achiever-vs.-failure schema.
- World schema: Zero-sum: resources given to "illegals" are stolen from real Americans. This cognitive schema is directly expressed in the Watters quote Trump selected.
Level 3 — Narrative Identity
- Protagonist role: Absent from the text (it's all Watters), but Trump's selection casts himself implicitly as the avenger-witness who sees and names the injustice others ignore.
- Contamination sequence: America's disaster relief system was once functional → Biden/Harris corrupted it by diverting money to migrants → victims are abandoned. Classic contamination arc.
- Identity claims: Implicit — "I see this injustice and I name it." The contrast figure is Biden/Harris/FEMA bureaucracy.
- Contrasting other: Harris as callous, equity-obsessed, migrant-prioritizing. Disaster victims as the deserving (white, American) victims of her indifference.
- Redemption subtext: Trump's own Valdosta visit = the implicit counter-narrative of what should be done.
Level 4 — Clinical Indicators
The post engages several malignant narcissism markers not at the individual statement level (these are Watters' words) but at the curation and amplification level:
- Antisocial features: Amplifying claims documented to impede active rescue operations demonstrates disregard for others' safety at the electoral-utility-calculation level. Lack of remorse is structurally embedded — there is no evidence Trump corrected these claims when they were publicly debunked.
- Splitting: Maximally operative. "Illegals" = luxury hotels. American victims = $750 and abandonment. No gradation, no nuance, no complexity permitted.
- Paranoid features: The "hate Elon Musk" causal chain for North Carolina's blackout is a paranoid ideation — attributing complex infrastructure failure to a personal political vendetta. This is logically incoherent but emotionally coherent within a persecutory frame.
3. Defense Mechanisms
- Projection (Immature): Trump was in the middle of a political storm about his own exploitation of the disaster (making false claims while fundraising). The post projects callousness and exploitation onto Harris/Biden, who are accused of doing exactly what critics accused Trump of doing.
- Splitting (Immature): Migrants = luxury/undeserving; disaster victims = poverty/$750/abandoned. No middle ground.
- Rationalization (Neurotic): Quoting a Fox host rather than stating claims directly provides a rationalized cover: "I'm sharing journalism."
- Acting Out (Immature): Amplifying disinformation in the middle of an active disaster recovery operation during a contested election campaign is an impulsive, consequence-unweighted behavior.
- Displacement (Neurotic): Anger about the Jack Smith 165-page immunity brief (filed that week) may be partially displaced here — the filing detailed Trump saying "So what?" when told Pence needed security. This was generating significant negative coverage. Attacking Biden/Harris over Helene redirects the news cycle.
4. Narcissistic Dynamics
- Trigger: Complex/multiple. (1) Narcissistic injury: Jack Smith brief that week, plus the VP debate (Vance vs. Walz) which received positive coverage for Vance but also put Harris back in the spotlight. (2) Competitive electoral positioning: Trump needs to dominate the disaster response narrative after his own Valdosta visit. (3) Supply-seeking: Outrage content generates massive engagement.
- State: Primarily grandiose with righteous indignation framing. Not in a vulnerable/victimized state here — Trump is attacking, not defending.
- Rage: Present but displaced through the Watters proxy. Intensity: moderate (0.6). The rage is mediated through the quotation form rather than expressed in Trump's own voice.
- Parasocial technique: By quoting a trusted Fox personality, Trump borrows Watters' credibility with the Fox audience and creates an "everyone sees this" consensual reality effect.
5. Rhetorical and Propaganda Analysis
The Watters quote Trump chose to amplify is a technically sophisticated propaganda package:
- False statistics / fabrication: "Over a billion dollars of FEMA cash on migrants" — documented as false. "$750" — misleadingly presented as the total aid (it was immediate-needs seed money, not total FEMA assistance). Both are RAND Firehose technique: volume of false claims overwhelming capacity to rebut.
- Dehumanizing language: "Illegals" — explicit dehumanization of undocumented migrants, reducing persons to legal status violations.
- False dichotomy: Migrants getting luxury hotels vs. victims getting $750. Structured as zero-sum extraction.
- Ad hominem / attribution of malice: "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate Elon Musk" — not policy failure but personal hatred as causal mechanism. This is character assassination framed as analysis.
- Whataboutism: The entire structure pivots away from Trump's own documented misinformation to attack opponent behavior.
- Appeal to grievance / nostalgia: "Forgotten Americans" schema implicit throughout.
- Stochastic terrorism markers (elevated concern): The post identifies specific targets (FEMA, Biden, Harris, "illegals"/migrants), articulates a specific grievance (disaster victims abandoned for migrants), and contextualizes within a pattern of amplified rage. Combined with the documented real-world effect — misinformation was already hindering FEMA operations, and FEMA workers were reportedly receiving threats — this crosses into elevated stochastic territory. The audience receiving this message includes a significant fraction predisposed to interpret political grievance as a call to action.
- Violent imagery: Not explicit here, but the "disgracefully left behind" framing in a life-or-death disaster context implies abandonment-unto-death.
- Equity attack: "She only wants to do that based on equity" — equity as code-word activating white grievance narratives around race-based resource allocation.
6. Gaslighting and Reality Distortion
- Multiple factual claims in the Watters quote are documented falsehoods that Trump amplified after they had already been publicly debunked:
- FEMA solvency claims: False (White House confirmed)
- "Blocked rescue operations": False (officials stated categorically)
- The $750 framing: Misleading (seed money, not total aid)
- DARVO pattern: Trump was being criticized for spreading disaster misinformation and politicizing victims. This post reverses the frame: Biden/Harris are the ones politicizing/abandoning victims.
- Epistemic closure mechanism: By citing Fox News (in-group authority) against fact-checkers (out-group), the post reinforces the closed epistemic system where only certain sources are legitimate.
7. Cognitive Status Markers
Since the post consists entirely of attributed quotation, Trump's own language production is not directly assessable. No original syntax, vocabulary, or sentence construction available for comparison. The act of selection and amplification without comment is itself notable — it may reflect either a strategic choice (deniability) or reduced interest in generating original language. Longitudinal tracking of the ratio of original-text posts to pure-amplification posts may be informative, but insufficient data for confident inference here.
8. Fact Verification
Claim 1: "Over 200 Americans are dead after Hurricane Helene"
Verdict: TRUE — Death toll at this date was approximately 200+, consistent with reported figures.
Claim 2: "Biden administration has blocked ongoing rescue operations"
Verdict: FALSE — Documented by White House and multiple officials as "absolutely false." No credible reporting supports this.
Claim 3: "FEMA is now out of money, because Joe Biden and Kamala spent over a billion dollars of FEMA cash on migrants"
Verdict: FALSE — Categorically denied by FEMA and White House. The known-events record explicitly flags this as a "bald-faced lie." FEMA's disaster relief fund is separate from immigration/shelter spending.
Claim 4: "Illegals got luxury hotel rooms, but Kamala's just tossing Helene victims $750"
Verdict: MOSTLY FALSE — The $750 figure is the Serious Needs Assistance immediate payment (a floor, not a ceiling); total FEMA individual assistance is far higher. The framing as direct zero-sum trade-off between migrant accommodation and disaster relief is false. The FEMA/migrant funding conflation is documented as disinformation.
Claim 5: "North Carolina is living in the dark ages because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate Elon Musk"
Verdict: FALSE — The causal claim (power/infrastructure outages caused by personal political animosity toward Musk) is a paranoid-ideation level fabrication with no factual basis. Infrastructure damage was caused by the hurricane.
Claim 6: "She only wants to do that [extra resources] based on equity"
Verdict: HALF TRUE / MISLEADING — Harris made comments about equity in disaster response that were taken out of context and weaponized. The claim as framed implies she would deny aid to non-equity-qualifying groups, which is not what the original statements said.
9. Archetypal Analysis
- Primary archetype activated: AVENGER/WARRIOR — Trump-as-amplifier is the fighter who names injustice done to real Americans while the establishment looks away.
- Secondary archetype: KING-in-exile — implied contrast with his Valdosta visit (what a real leader does) versus Biden/Harris negligence.
- Shadow projection: The "callous exploitation of disaster victims for political purposes" is projected onto Harris. Trump's own Valdosta visit was similarly criticized as political theater. The shadow (exploiting victims) is disowned and assigned to the enemy.
- Trickster element: The Watters-quote format is itself a trickster move — breaking the norm of political candidates making direct claims by routing disinformation through a media proxy.
- Mythological narrative: The abandoned/betrayed community — Americans left to die while the government lavishes resources on undeserving outsiders — is a powerful mythological activation with deep nativist and ethnonationalist resonance.
10. Order and Chaos Dynamics
- Position: Order attacker (attacking the Biden/FEMA/Harris apparatus as corrupt) + Order restorer (Trump implicitly = the return of legitimate government that would protect "real Americans").
- Asymmetric application: Order (protection, resources, care) is promised to American disaster victims; chaos (abandonment, $750, "dark ages") is what the current order delivers to them. Migrants receive illegitimate order (luxury hotels) that Trump would revoke.
- Grievance mapping: Intense (0.85). The grievance is survival-level: your neighbors died because the government gave your money to illegals. This is among the most emotionally potent grievance framings available in American political culture.
- Hierarchy restructuring: Implicitly inverts the current hierarchy — puts American disaster victims above migrants in resource allocation, punishes Biden/Harris administration officials, elevates Elon Musk as a sympathetic figure (his implied persecution explains North Carolina's power outage).
11. Danger Assessment
Level: ELEVATED
Specific concerns:
- Documented real-world harm already occurring: The known-events record states explicitly that "misinformation hindered recovery efforts" during this period. This is not hypothetical danger — FEMA operations were materially disrupted by the disinformation ecosystem Trump was amplifying.
- Dehumanizing language: "Illegals" as a category framed as stealing from disaster victims creates a specific targeting vector.
- Stochastic terrorism indicators present:
- Target identified: Biden administration, FEMA, Harris, migrants in emergency shelters
- Grievance articulated: disaster victims are dying because money was stolen by migrants
- Implied action: not explicit, but the grievance structure (life-or-death, named villains, identifiable "victims") is consistent with pre-violence rhetoric patterns
- Scale amplification: Trump's platform reach means this message reaches millions of followers who may be located in the disaster zone, armed, and grieving.
- No correction mechanism: Trump never walked back or corrected these claims even after they were debunked and officials linked them to threats against FEMA workers.
Summary
This post exemplifies Trump's "proxy disinformation" technique: amplifying maximally false, emotionally incendiary claims through a Fox News personality while retaining structural deniability. Posted at 12:39 AM EDT — authentic Trump timing — the content bundles at least four documented falsehoods about Hurricane Helene disaster response into a coherent grievance narrative that places migrants as extractors of resources from dying American victims. The "hate Elon Musk" causal chain represents paranoid-level ideation embedded within otherwise instrumental political disinformation. Defense mechanisms include projection (Trump was actively being criticized for exploiting the disaster), splitting, and rationalization via the media-proxy format. The rhetorical package activates white grievance, nativist ethnonationalism, and survival-level fear in a high-emotional-salience context. Most clinically significant: this is not merely false speech — the historian record confirms it materially hindered active rescue operations, placing it in a category of harmful disinformation with documented real-world consequences. Danger level elevated; stochastic terrorism markers present though not at the highest threshold.
Fact Verification
| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| "Over 200 Americans are dead after Hurricane Helene" | True | Death toll was approximately 200+ at time of posting, consistent with reported figures across major outlets and the known-events record. |
| "The Biden administration has blocked ongoing rescue operations" | False | White House and multiple officials called this claim 'absolutely false.' Known-events record explicitly documents this as disinformation. |
| "FEMA is out of money because Biden and Kamala spent over a billion dollars of FEMA cash on migrants" | False | Categorically denied by FEMA and White House. Called 'bald-faced lies' by officials. FEMA disaster relief funds are separate from immigration shelter spending. Known-events record flags explicitly. |
| "Illegals got luxury hotel rooms but Kamala's just tossing Helene victims $750" | Mostly False | $750 is the Serious Needs Assistance initial payment — a floor, not total aid. FEMA individual assistance extends well beyond this. The zero-sum framing of migrant accommodation vs. disaster aid is documented disinformation. |
| "North Carolina is living in the dark ages because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate Elon Musk" | False | Infrastructure damage and power outages in North Carolina were caused by Hurricane Helene's physical destruction. The causal attribution to a personal political vendetta against Musk has no factual basis. |
| "She only wants to give extra resources based on equity" | Half True | Harris made comments about equity in disaster response that were taken out of context. The implication that she would deny aid to non-equity-qualifying groups distorts the original statements. |
Overall Veracity: 28%
Post from Truth Social
Jesse Watters: “Over 200 Americans are dead after Hurricane Helene and the thousands of victims impacted have been disgracefully left behind. The Biden administration has blocked ongoing rescue operations and North Carolina is living in the dark ages because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate Elon Musk. FEMA is now out of money, because Joe Biden and Kamala spent over a billion dollars of FEMA cash on migrants. Illegals got luxury hotel rooms, but Kamala’s just tossing Helene victims $750 and heading back on the campaign trail. This must not meet her standard for giving extra resources- she only wants to do that based on equity.”
Video transcript 11:27
- Over 220 Americans dead from Hurricane Helene. Hundreds still missing and loved ones crying in agony. Cadaver dogs have joined search and rescue crews to sniff out bodies stuck under structures. One North Carolina woman lost her parents and her seven-year-old. - I was stuck there for a very long time in the water and I was, you know, held down by roots and trees. And in that moment, you know, in the midst of the chaos, all I heard was God telling me to be still and to stop fighting the water. - Your son, Micah, seven years old, from what I've been told you're wearing one of his t-shirts, you call him a superhero. - Yes, he wanted to be Deadpool for Halloween and in his honor, I wore it today for him. - Micah, man. - Tell us about Micah and the legacy that he's going to leave on this earth. - This moment. You know, I'm so proud of my son because in his last moments, he wasn't screaming for me. He was screaming, Jesus, Jesus, save me. Jesus, I hear you. Jesus, I'm calling upon you. And his wildest dreams and everything that he wanted to be was a superhero and that was his goal in life. And instead, he's my hero because he reached for something past flesh, past human, past anything that even grown adults, I think, would reach for. My son called out to the one God Almighty. And I think at that moment, he was rescued and he became my hero. - Helene's the third deadliest hurricane in American history, right behind Katrina and Sandy. If you survived, you're living without food, power, a roof over your head and you're begging for help. - We're not getting the amount of support that we need. - We haven't seen FEMA, we haven't seen Red Cross, we haven't seen Harvins with hands, we've seen no agencies come through here. Most people drive through with their cameras out, filming us like we're animals in a zoo and don't stop. - How could the government do us like this and how could the whole country just forget about us? It's not enough, what is being done is not enough. I mean, there are entire communities that have been just decimated. I mean, where is our (beep) government? I mean, for Kamala and I am an avid supporter for her to stand in Florida today and make a statement, where is our government? - Sources say over a thousand troops in North Carolina are just sitting around doing nothing, waiting for orders that haven't come. They haven't heard from the North Carolina governor and the Biden administration's blocking ongoing rescue operations. They're in the way, they are directly interrupting our ability to conduct missions and operations. And I'm not gonna disparage anybody because we are trying to work within partner relationships, both government and non-government entities within state and federal and county. I went to put a couple of people into a hotel last night and they have a security guard at the hotel and they said, "Oh, we're so sorry." The entire hotel has been booked for federal employees. And I was like, "No, no, I have people that would just pull out of a mountain that are living out in the hills and there's not a place for me to put them because we have federal employees that are staying in the hotel. I slept in this white car last night. I smell like foot and death right now." As does every single person on our team. - The hurricane left thousands homeless and the federal government saying, "Sorry, can't stay here, no vacancy." This is like when FEMA plopped down at the Four Seasons during the Maui fires, remember that? And Mayor Pete won't let anybody fly drones to scout for survivors. It's against regulation. - There's also some safety issues that come up. For example, temporary flight restrictions to make sure that the airspace is clear for any flights or drone activity that might be involved in helping to allow those emergency responders to do their job. - Tiny drones aren't getting in the way of anything. This is all hands on deck. What does Mayor Pete embarrass that private crews are IDing survivors faster than the feds? Biden shut down the entire sky just for a look-see. - Yesterday for President Biden's dog and pony show to come in and see photos, he put a 30-mile TFR, which is basically a restriction in the Arizona, which means that he actually stopped from 12 o'clock until 1,604 p.m. He stopped air traffic and helos from transferring supplies, dropping SAR teams, picking up individuals from medivacs. So that was not only irresponsible, but if you're gonna come a week later, at least make sure that you're not trying to hinder in any way further the actual operations that are being led by civilian organizations and veterans such as myself and others that are trying to do what is right. And so I found the entire response so far to be not just lacking, but irresponsible and inept. - Americans drowned while Biden was at the beach and Kamala was at California fundraisers. But they come in five, six, seven days later and they say they're doing a heck of a job. Bush flew over Katrina and hit the ground three days later and his presidency never recovered. - When the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there. We can talk about levies that couldn't hold, about a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent, but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground, trying to provide comfort and aid. - I covered Katrina and Sandy as a producer and the entire federal government stopped and focused everything it had on the natural disaster. Kamala Harris is in Wisconsin today campaigning with Liz Cheney. North Carolina is living in the dark because Biden and Harris hate Elon Musk. They stopped paying for his Starlink, which would have given internet to everybody in the hurricane's path and now nobody can communicate. Elon says it would have probably have saved lives. The White House spent $42 billion to wire rural America with internet and nobody has internet in the foothills of North Carolina. Nobody. Biden and Harris had to be jawboned into loosening the purse strings. - When the first emergency declarations came down, there was only 11 counties in that. A lot of people were outraged, including me, 'cause there was such devastation in up to 90 counties. So we called the White House, we spoke to the president's chief of staff, the FEMA administrator and said, look, you're sending the signal that you're not paying attention to some of these rural communities. - Communities underwater and the federal government all of a sudden has alligator arms. Usually they just print money. Now they're tossing you $750 and saying, get yourself something nice. - The federal relief and assistance that we have been providing has included FEMA providing $750 for folks who need immediate needs being met. - The Biden-Harris administration has spent hundreds of billions of dollars overseas. We give more money to our enemies, a half a billion to the Palestinians, six billion to the Iranians, or even here. - We spent a half a million dollars for an anti-racist oyster reef in AOC's district. She lives in Queens, they're not even fresh. $750 per person in America. After you lost your entire home, all of your belongings, and you have no food, power or water. Where's the money? - We do not have the funds, FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. - So where'd the money go? - In the last two years, the Biden-Harris administration spent a billion dollars of FEMA money on illegal aliens. A billion dollars, so foreigners had free hotel rooms and culturally appropriate food, which they threw in the garbage. We bought them Xboxes. This doesn't even include taxpayer-funded college tuition for illegals or illegal alien sex changes. When American citizens, the ones who were born here and pay taxes, deserve help, Biden and Harris are saying, oh, sorry, we gave it all away to the people who broke into the country. We just found out last week that half a million of the migrants here are criminals, rapists, convicted murderers. And the Biden-Harris administration gave people like that money, before they gave hurricane victims money. This was Trump just moments ago. Listen. (audience laughing) - And all her FEMA money, billions of dollars on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country, including one billion for gift cards for illegal aliens and putting them up in luxury hotels, with a gift card to welcome them to America, as our veterans are sleeping on the sidewalks below those hotels, and they're being walked into luxury hotels. - This is probably one of the biggest scandals of the Biden administration, and there's been many. This scandal is criminal because people are dead and more people will die today, tomorrow, over the weekend. Kamala Harris just doesn't have the right priorities. She wants hurricane victims given resources based on their gender and skin color. - It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions, and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. - And women. - Absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities. - If these were Democrat precincts, would Kamala handle this the same way? I'm not even sure it's fair to speculate, but Republican counties have been the hardest hit, and there's an election coming up. How are people gonna vote if their polling places and mailboxes are obliterated? But voting secondary, safety is the number one priority. And we're not saying there's an agenda, but why has the federal response been so inadequate? And Hollywood doesn't care. Where's George Clooney raising money? Where's the telethon? Same thing happened in East Palestine. Same thing happens when a migrant brutalizes a little girl. Silence. People who weaponize virtue have nothing to say when five states get wiped out. We'd like all Americans, wherever you live, wherever you are, to please donate to the Red Cross. Every little bit helps. Because when the federal government doesn't come through, it's up to you and I and all of us to help our brothers and sisters out.
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