Visibly Defeated Trump FLIPS OUT On Reporter

Donald Trump went ballistic on a reporter as he took questions on Friday in Texas, calling the reporter an “evil person” for asking a question. The question was about the delayed federal response to the deadly floods in Texas, as the federal government took days to activate FEMA and local officials couldn’t even get a response to get the help for search and rescue that they were begging for. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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On Friday, a week after the floods began in the state of Texas, Donald Trump finally got around to going down there and touring the devastation. But that only lasted a few moments. What he really wanted to do, as Trump always does, is get in front of cameras. He wanted to talk to reporters. He wanted to talk about how great and grand he is, how great his administration is, and of course, how great the Republicans that have destroyed the state of Texas are. But it didn't go as planned for poor little Donnie. No, because the reporters that actually live in those areas that of course have been devastated, they don't wanna hear the pats on the back of the Trump administration because they know firsthand this administration does not deserve any credit for anything other than completely botching the federal response to the Texas floods. So a reporter from a local CBS affiliate asked Donald Trump about the delayed response, and that caused Donald Trump to go even more insane than he usually is. Here's the clip

Here with CBS News, Texas. Several families we've heard from are obviously upset because they say that those warnings, those alerts didn't go out out in time. And they also say that people could have been safe. What do you say to those families?

Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was, I guess Christie said a one in 500, one in a thousand years. And, uh, I just have admiration for the job that everybody did. There was just admiration. Uh, the, uh, only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you. I don't know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that. I think this has been heroism. This has been incredible. Really, the job you've all done, it's easy to sit back and say, oh, what could have happened here? There, you know, maybe we could have done something differently. This was a, a thing that, uh, says never happened before.

An evil person would ask such a question. No, you see, Donald, you, you, you always seem to get things confused. You think evil is just anything you don't like, and you don't like the truth. So in your demented brain, and I do mean that literally, truth is evil, because truth is counter to what you want, and because you don't want it, it is therefore evil, which justifies in your brain that you do not want it because it's evil. Now, that question from that reporter was valid. It is a question that past administrations have been asked when they have botched responses to natural disasters, George W. Bush and FEMA and Hurricane Katrina. Remember that?

This is what happens. This is called accountability. And that reporter did a good job. Because here's the facts, here's what we know. When Christie Nome came in as the new chief of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees fema, she implemented a new rule that says, anytime there is more than a hundred thousand dollars worth of aid going to anywhere in the country, she, as the Secretary of Homeland Security, has to personally sign the order. If she does not sign it, aid cannot be distributed. Texas requested that aid last Friday, nom didn't sign it till Monday. There was a three day gap, which the reporter is talking about, like, there's a three day gap. What the happened? So no signs it on Monday after she spent the weekend posting polls on Instagram asking people which official portrait of her should hang in the South Dakota State House, because that was her priority. Which one do I look prettiest in? All right. Which one do I look most like a cowgirl? Now be honest guys. 'cause I don't wanna, you know, uh, this is a big, big decision. Texas was dying. Children were dying in flood waters that they had been treading in for 24 hours.