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Trump Truths While L.A. Burns

He and his minions want to use federal aid to force changes

Caren White
5 min readJan 14, 2025
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You may have noticed that while a major American city is in flames, you haven’t seen a word about it here. I haven’t been ignoring it. I’ve just been waiting. For the inevitable. Because Trump is Just. So. Fucking. Predictable.

Biden, on the other hand, did his duty as president. He flew out to California, shuffled around in the ashes, and promised federal aid. To the tune of covering 100% of the cost to fight the fires for 180 days. Then he followed that up with $771 individual payments to people affected by the fires.

In other words, he did his job as president.

Gov. Gavin Newsom invited Trump to also tour the devastation, but neither Trump nor anyone associated with him has bothered to respond. I’m not holding my breath. Trump is a coward. He has no desire to risk his life for a state that didn’t vote for him. In his view, it’s much too dangerous in LA right now.

Instead, he has been middle-of-the-night ranting on Truth Social from the safety of his gilded lair at Mar-a-Lago. Nothing burns in Florida. And if a fire starts, the hurricanes put it out.

Hey, how come … never mind. I’ll rant about that another day.

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Caren White
Caren White

Written by Caren White

Just an old woman ranting on the internet. I always speak my mind.

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