Trump Questions FEMA's Usefulness And Says He'd 'Rather See The States Take Care Of Their Own Problems'

[HereForTheParty]

Source: Forbes

President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency and suggested he wants to have a discussion soon on its future, continuing his attack on the federal disaster response agency, which he and other GOP leaders have accused of being biased against Republicans.

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity from the Oval Office, Trump addressed the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, before saying: “FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly.”

The president said he’d “rather see the states take care of their own problems.”

Trump attacked FEMA, saying the agency has not done its “job for the last four years,” and suggested Democrats did not care about disasters in states like North Carolina, but are eager to get federal support to deal with the Los Angeles fires.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/22/trump-questions-femas-usefulness-and-says-hed-rather-see-the-states-take-care-of-their-own-problems/

[JoseBalow]

1. So much for "e pluribus unum"

I guess division is his idea of how to make America great.

[sakabatou]

2. And after disasters strikes, watch as red states beg for money

[Mz Pip]

4. They always do

Florida, Texas here’s looking at you.

Im sure Ted Cruz will be more than happy for Texas to pick up its own tab the next time a disaster hits.

[bdamomma]

41. Aren't red states

getting money from blue states already. The red states just don't know how to manage the money.

That the felon's answer for California just giving Gov. Newsom the finger. The felon is disgusting.

[Moostache]

44. They can have thoughts and prayers...

Costs me nothing, gives them nothing and then I can just go back to watching them suffer and smugly say: "FUCK YOU PAY ME." (reference is 1990's 'Goodfellas' by Martin Scorsese)...but in all seriousness, if these morons really believe that the next hurricane to hit the Gulf shores is going to be handled strictly by local government agencies, I can't help them, they are simply too stupid (or too cruel) to exist.

[angrychair]

3. That's not how this works

The 1988 Stafford Act and the 2022 Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act mandate actions by FEMA which means FEMA has to exist to do it. Like many of these things there are laws entangled in the functions of these different agencies and you cannot pretend they don't exist.

Plus I don't see Republicans in the House or Senate having much of an appetite to dissolve FEMA no matter how much TSF screams and shouts about it.

[KS Toronado]

14. I don't see Republicans in the House or Senate having much of an appetite

to stand up to tsf and explain how things should work, he's known to ruin people for petty reasons.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. If only they would have banded together ages ago

To stand up to his BS we might not be in this mess. He can't fuck with all of them!

[Bengus81]

39. Republicans have now proven they're all for Cop BEATERS/killers being let out of prison

now matter how violent they are. The ball will be in YOUR court PUKES. So....going to let all your southern states fend for themselves when the next hurricane hits (and it will and more destructive) or STAND UP to Trump?

Shit...get your popcorn for this one.............

[mpcamb]

23. Every whim, tantrum or caprise stupid shit has becomes a news story.

Anybody else sick of it yet?

[chernabogg]

29. Flooding the zone

With shit

[hatrack]

30. GQP members will click their heels and shout "Hail, Victory" and do whatever he wants.

The End.

[angrychair]

35. It may seem that way

But everything has its limits. FEMA actually has a good reputation and has performed very well these last four years.
These moves to cripple NIH or rollback FEMA will directly impact their constituents in a very loud and physical way, if something goes wrong and the only people to blame will be Republicans. You have your kool-aid drinkers in Congress but when push comes to shove, most care a lot more about reelection than they do about a lame duck president and his crazy agenda.

[hatrack]

36. Maybe . . .

But let's not forget primary opponents with limitless oligarch funding, served up by the Toddler-In-Chief in case any dare disobey His Sacred Will.

And, of course, whatever dead girl/live boy blackmail Shitstain at least seems to have on pretty much every Republican elected.

[jgmiller]

5. Let's just stop and think about this for a minute....

The recent fires here in LA not withstanding it seems to me that the states that most use FEMA are pretty much all red and one in particular is going to be getting hit very hard in the future by climate pesky non-existent climate change.

This particular idea of his might not be so bad.

[blue blues]

6. By all means

yes, the red states have been getting too much FEMA MONEY

[Karasu]

7. Considering where we're at now with climate change, most states are going to be broke in fucking record time, then.

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...Particularly the red ones.

[Skittles]

8. LOL

what a fucking elite, out of touch piece of UTTER SHIT

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. He has spoken, so let's see if the sycophants in the

rethuglican party acquiesce during hurricane season. Oh and let's not forget about tornado alley.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. I question Trump's usefulness

And I wish Congress would take care of the problem.

[EarthFirst]

11. California and Nee York contribute 21.9% of GDP to the entire US economy...

Please proceed.

[cstanleytech]

12. Hard for a State to do that if the States infrastructure is seriously damaged though because of the disaster.

Great way to awaken the US though.

[KS Toronado]

13. Hell yea

states should take care of their own problems going forward for the next 4 years. By the time the
2028 election rolls around R voters will be tired of an R Government who refuses to help R
communities in need of help after a natural disaster.

Maybe they'll wake up and start voting D.

[Old Crank]

15. Yup. Time to return the stolen cash from CA and NY.

Watch taxes balloon in the welfare states as disaster strikes. They already can't pay their way.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Being the sycophant that he is, I'm certain that Ron DeSantis

wholly agrees with this position . . . .

Happy Hurricane Season!!

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. Okay, you orange gibbon...

But, that also means we will not be paying the federal government the same amount of taxes that we did pay... I mean, since we are supposed to deal with our own problems. Why give the federals money if they are not oging to help us?Of course, that is not what you meant, but that is the reality of denying us the use of our tax dollars. So, if you don't want these programs, lower our taxes. Because we are not going to give you money to run something that you are obviously not going to run.

Besides, your lot are the ones who keep interfering with disaster relief in N.C., not the Democrats.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Destroying the US government, each state will be their own nation.

Putin has wanted the balkanization of the US for a long time.
Easier to destroy that way.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

19. What does Speaker Johnson have to say about that?

He's ageing quickly.

[Old Crank]

20. Goodbye No income tax states

How are Florida and Texas going to fund the Billions that will be needed to cover disasters?
Sales tax in Louisisana will sky rocket since they want to remove income tax and rely on sales taxes.
going to be fun for the welfare states who rely on CA/NY money funneled infrom theFeds.

[Javaman]

21. this will be amusing considering the some of the poorest red states get hit the hardest by hurricanes. nt

[tanyev]

22. So this season of The Apprentice will pit all 50 states against each other.

He really is despicable.

[LisaL]

24. If each state is supposed to take care of itself, what is

the purpose of the Union?

[bdamomma]

42. just like

how he washed his hands of giving the states about abortion rights and we see how that is working out.

The felon is a monster out of control.

[Oopsie Daisy]

25. Red states will suffer the most. Good!

[C_U_L8R]

26. What's the point of a Union if every state is on their own?

Gawd, Libertarian thinking is the dumbest shit imaginable.

[RobinA]

48. Well, It Wouldn't

be a union, it would be a confederation. They could call the governing document Articles of Confederation. That could work!!

[ms liberty]

27. And he's using the lie that FEMA was negligent in NC

I hate fucking propaganda.

[bdamomma]

43. The felon

pumped up so much hate to NC folks to not trust FEMA while (President Biden and VP Harris said FEMA were there to help people), it was the people who told FEMA to get lost.

[raging moderate]

28. He wants to pretend the Confederacy won the Civil War.

Ironically, New York State had some fairly vicious slave-owners and Confederacy sympathizers. There were some people in the North who were adamant white supremacists.

[sop]

32. Trump is just pulling shit out of his ass right now.

During his first term Trump was a bit more circumspect about the whoppers he told, worried he mignt be fact-checked at some point. This time around he doesn't give a damn how demonstrably false his bullshit is, he just lets loose with whatever crappola pops into his diseased brain.

[Timeflyer]

33. Come to hurricane and flood affected Florida communities, put on some white boots, and tell that to the people

who were saved from total financial and emotional ruin with FEMA's help.

[sinkingfeeling]

34. Hope he tells Mississippi, Louisiana, and North Carolina they don't need FEMA.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

37. Just like with COVID, he only means this for the Blue states.

[SKKY]

38. Good! Let's see MS, AL, LA, FL, GA and the others...

..."...take care of their own problems." when the next hurricane or tornado comes calling.

[City Lights]

40. So we're cancelling the "United" part of our country name now?

We'll just be the "States of America." Or maybe the "Individual States of America."

So does this mean that each state will just fund itself going forward? Blue states no longer have to redistribute their wealth to red states?

[jls4561]

45. I bet the Fatass administration will hand out "block grants" to the states. Millions for Florida and Texas,

$2.00 for California and New York. Other states to be apportioned on the suck up to the Hair Furor scale.

The idea is to remind the people that largesse depends on the will of the rulers.

[Deep State Witch]

46. I'm Sure That Will Go Over Well in WNC

I mean, after all of the complaining and conspiracy theories about FEMA, including pointing guns at FEMA officials.

[intheflow]

47. Okay. Let the impoverished red states make do without FEMA.

The next time a tornado, flood, fire or hurricane hits Florida, Mississippi, NC, Iowa, etc., they can do without federal help. Blue states will hurt but red states will be slayed.