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Trump Spent The Weekend Golfing And Eating Ice Cream As Children Died In Texas Flood

Showing all the urgency of a president who doesn't care, Trump spent the weekend golfing and eating ice cream as Texas suffered the most deadly flood in a century.

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Jason Easley
Jul 07, 2025
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As people were dying in Texas, this is what Donald Trump was doing:

A man who loves the attention of the media did not rush to hold a news conference. Trump didn’t come back to Washington to speak to the nation in the aftermath of the most deadly flood in the United States in more than a century.

Trump has given the usual Republican thoughts and prayers and signed a disaster declaration. In other words, he has done the bare presidential minimum and didn’t let what is likely to be hundreds of people dying, including dozens of children, interfere with his holiday weekend.

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