The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

NEW: CNN reports Kristi Noem waited over 72 hours to authorize FEMA’s urban search and rescue teams—delaying lifesaving aid as her own rules blocked urgent disaster spending. While Texans were drowning, Kristi Noem was busy posting glam portrait polls on social media.

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CNN: According to four officials inside FEMA.. a new rule that any expected expenditure over $100,000 needed sign off from Noem slowed the federal response.

The sources tell us that FEMA's deployment of urban search and rescue teams, which are typically deployed in anticipation they might be needed instead, was delayed until Monday, three days after the flood.

Now, a source also tells us that a request Texas made for FEMA aerial imagery to aid in the search was also delayed, waiting for Secretary Noem's approval.

Now, additionally, multiple FEMA officials say that they were taken aback by the agency's relatively limited response in the immediate aftermath of the disaster

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At least he didn't call him "Mr. Japan" (this time)

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Trump’s Letter to Prime Minister Sparks Outrage Online—’Did a Fifth Grader Write This?’ – AMERICAN WONDERHUB

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PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION CRISIS: TRUMP’S DIPLOMATIC LETTER TO JAPAN SPARKS INTERNATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT OVER “FIFTH-GRADE” WRITING SKILLS​

The United States finds itself at the center of an unprecedented diplomatic and communication crisis as President Donald Trump’s official correspondence with international leaders has drawn widespread ridicule and concern from educators, linguists, communication experts, and political analysts around the world. The latest incident involves a formal letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba that has been characterized by critics as resembling the writing quality of an elementary school student rather than the sophisticated diplomatic communication expected from the leader of the world’s most powerful nation.

This communication controversy has far-reaching implications that extend well beyond simple matters of grammar and style, touching on fundamental questions about American leadership credibility, diplomatic effectiveness, and the standards of professionalism expected in international relations. The incident has prompted serious discussions about .....

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And the letter itself (The corrections were made by a Japanese scholar specializing in American government and politics)

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And back to Texas

LIVES WERE VERY LIKELY LOST BECAUSE OF CHIEF BAKER’S DECISION!​


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"The post went on, calling Baker’s actions “unforgivable” and alleged the chief’s decision was based off a “misguided” attempt to save money.

“We are disgusted with our fire chief. He needs to be held accountable and fired for his disgraceful dereliction of duty,”

The association also said they are starting a vote of no confidence Tuesday on Baker.

Austin fire union floats no-confidence vote post-flash floods https://share.google/QHme1sGpNgUljPq6x

Firefighters to seek firing of Chief Baker - Austin MonitorAustin Monitor https://share.google/uhI8WMXJexljxVi3v

Texas flooding: Austin fire chief accused of denying deployment of firefighters to Kerrville | FOX 7 Austin https://share.google/f2WT9KETeXriPIIbV
 
Shades of Watergate. The time a modified tape brought down a sitting President

MAJOR BREAKING: Massive bombshell drops in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as metadata analysis reveals that the footage released by the Trump administration of Epstein's prison cell was likely "modified" with software.

And it gets so much stranger...

According to analysis by WIRED and independent video forensics experts, the 11 hours of footage released by the MAGA Justice Department does not appear to be a "direct export from the prison’s surveillance system." They reached this conclusion by reviewing metadata embedded in the footage.

The video footage was likely "modified" using Adobe Premiere Pro, which is a popular professional editing tool that is often used on big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

"The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as 'raw'
footage," data reporter Dhruv Mehrotra wrote in WIRED.

Not only that, but the file "appears to have been assembled from at least .....

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NPR - The year red-blooded patriotic American high-school jocks replaced migrant farm workers!

The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program.

Started in World War II, the program was an agreement between the American and Mexican governments that brought Mexican men to pick harvests across the U.S. It ended in 1964, after years of accusations by civil rights activists like Cesar Chavez that migrants suffered wage theft and terrible working and living conditions.

But farmers complained — in words that echo today's headlines — that Mexican laborers did the jobs that Americans didn't want to do, and that the end of the Bracero Program meant that crops would rot in the fields.

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Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz cited this labor shortage and a lack of summer jobs for high schoolers as reason enough for the program. But he didn't want just any band geek or nerd — he wanted jocks.

"They can do the work," Wirtz said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., announcing the creation of the project, called A-TEAM — Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower. "They are entitled to a chance at it." Standing beside him to lend gravitas were ....

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It's gotta be about him ....

BREAKING: Donald Trump makes his trip to Texas after the tragic flash floods all about himself by going on an extended rant about the failed attempt on his life and claims that God "saved" him.

This is enough to churn your stomach...

"People were screaming you know 'get down, get down.' The whole thing was just crazy and it's hard to believe a year is up and, uh, here we are and a lot of things have happened since then including the presidency," Trump told Fox News reporter Will Cain.

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Shiftless2 said:
"... the end of the Bracero Program meant that crops would rot in the fields." #1,053
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This may be an excellent example of half-right being all wrong.

We needn't have graduated 3rd grade to understand systemically having illegal aliens performing essential functions is sub-optimal. BUT !
That does not render optimal Nazi-style roundups & deportations the optimal solution.

Food crop harvesting is an essential function. Without it, famine.
Thus disabling the current system is rather more monstrous sabotage than solution.

The solution is not to rot our food supply in the fields.
The solution is to upgrade, update the U.S. immigration system so that putting domestically produced food on U.S. dining tables is not a crime.
 
Besides, being in the US illegally is a misdemeanor (same as a parking ticket) but employing those illegals is a felony. And it would be a simple matter to solve the problem of illegals in the US if they charged the employers.

Of course that wouldn't address the issue of crops rotting in the fields ....
 
Both the Obama & Biden administrations, tried to fund flood warning systems in Kerr County Texas. This is footage of that money being rejected by local politicians, because they didn’t want to accept democrat money. 100+ people died this week because of this unfathomable idiocy:

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FEMA Deleted Texas Camp's Buildings from Flood Map—Report​

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Federal regulators approved appeals to remove buildings from the 100-year flood hazard map of Camp Mystic, reducing regulatory oversight in a high-risk floodplain in Texas before torrential waters struck the site, the Associated Press has reported.

In 2011, the Christian girls' camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River, had been included in a "Special Flood Hazard Area" in a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood map which included requiring flood insurance and stricter construction regulations.

But following appeals, FEMA changed the flood maps in 2013, 2019, and 2020 to exclude 30 buildings across the sites which were part of the camp hit by the flood that killed at 27 people including campers, counsellors and the camp owner, the AP reported.

FEMA told the AP that the flood maps were only snapshots that showed minimum standards for floodplain management and were not predictions of where it will flood.

Newsweek has contacted FEMA and Camp Mystic for comment by email.

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Caution tape covers the entrance of Camp Mystic on July 07, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Why It Matters​

More than 130 people across mutiple counties have been confirmed dead in the flash floods that hit Texas on July 4 while Camp Mystic has confirmed that at least 27 girls and counsellors were among them.

The AP report raises questions over why a camp responsible for children's safety received exemptions from ....

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FEMA deleted Texas camp's buildings from flood map—report

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.
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