Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst.
The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 100 people, including over two dozen children at a Christian summer camp.
This is one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the last 100 years, and the toll among kids is a particular gut punch.
It’s natural that observers will ask how it could have happened, but the fact-free, malicious attacks constitute one of the more poisonously stupid episodes of the Trump years — and that’s saying a lot.
The theory here is that Elon Musk’s chainsaw cuts to the National Weather Service gutted the agency with catastrophic consequences. See, Trump’s adversaries say, we told you DOGE would get people killed.