Salon Writer Laments Trump’s Cold, Hard America

It’s not at all surprising that a lame-stream media publication would put up an article blaming Donald Trump and his Administration for the ills currently besetting our nation. Brian Karem writing in Salon has put up a mean, nasty and hateful article that is ugly straight through the bone and into the soul. The vitriol says a lot more about Karen Karem than about Trump or his Administration.

Karem’s article in Salon is titled “Texas floods show that Trump’s America is a cold, hard place” The subhead doubles down: “The president would rather intimidate and detain immigrants than help flood victims”. So subtle and clever…not. As you will see, Karem like Amanda Marcotte doesn’t do subtle or clever.

This article begins:

Just one month ago, Donald Trump said he wanted to “wean” the United States off the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season.

“We want to bring [FEMA] down to the state level,” Trump told reporters during a briefing in the Oval Office. “A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly if they can’t it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”

This week, in the wake of the floods in the Texas Hill Country that left at least 119 dead and over 161 still missing, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott praised Trump for quickly approving a major disaster declaration for Kerr County, the hardest-hit area. “The swift and very robust action by President Trump is an extraordinary help to our response,” Abbott said.

If you use Trump’s logic, maybe Abbott shouldn’t be governor.

Oh, Brian “Twatwaffle” Kareem, the state-level FEMA would be stood up after the 2025 Hurricane season ends November 1. You really think your audience is stupid. Abbott praised Trump for his help, but local aid workers have also praised Texas State aid. FEMA Aid has been too one size fits all and not responsive to the local needs.

More from the soul crushing article:

We all know where Trump’s heart lies — and it isn’t with the victims of a natural disaster. On the same day Texas officials were engaged in search, rescue and recovery efforts along the Guadalupe River, masked and heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents marched on foot and galloped on horseback through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in a performative show of force.

Oh my somebody better call the farrier to check the horses’ feet after they “galloped” through MacArthur Park. Needles, among other drug paraphernalia, would be a worry. But Karen Bass wants them galloping through Hill Country:

Imagine if those ICE officers were instead marching and galloping through the Texas Hill Country, trying to aid and assist the families who lost loved ones at a summer camp because of a natural disaster. Apparently, Trump doesn’t possess the empathy to order that. His grand plan appears to be rounding up people, and making them suffer, rather than assisting those already suffering

Do I need to go into the gruesome details about all the things that can go wrong when horses are galloping through Hill Country strewn with 170 bodies? Salon, her editors and writers don’t know or care. They just want to drag Trump.

Kristi Noem has done a good job for Trump:

BREAKING DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just now exposed CNN for being Fake News for LYING about our quick Coast Guard was in Texas

“They are absolutely trash for saying that”

I AGREE, STOP WATCHING CNN pic.twitter.com/6fwGuYfclX

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) July 10, 2025

But, Karem call Miss Noem a garden gnome:

Some would describe it as an act of nature. Humans have never been able to control those. Others would call it an act of God. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the president’s personal garden gnome, had a different view. During Trump’s recent cabinet meeting, she said “I’m extremely grateful for God’s hands in that whole situation, because hundreds and hundreds of people were saved.” In her logic, God apparently both caused the flood and saved the people he liked. And no one even had to build an ark.

Gnomes are for good luck, health and prosperity. I don’t get the point Karem and Salon is trying to make here.

Finally:

“For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Christians will know this as Galatians 5:14, which either means that Donald Trump doesn’t care about the Bible, or if he is true to it, then he must really hate himself. My grandfather often said two things can be true at once.

want to keep that in mind. The rest of Galatians talks about faith and works. You can’t pick and choose Biblical quotes.

Yes, Trump spends time on the gold course. So what? He works 20 hours a day. When he’s working he’s working.

Salon can lose their ugly souls.

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