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Donald Trump spreads disinformation about FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene. Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WhoWhatWhy (CC BY-SA 2.0) See complete attribution below.
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Donald Trump Is a Bad Samaritan — He Only Helps Himself

10/06/24

Former President Trump caused disruptions in disaster areas and spread hurtful disinformation while he was at it.

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This week Americans were subjected to scenes of a former president of the United States debasing himself by promoting obvious, easily refutable terrible misinformation about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) efforts to support the needs of victims of Hurricane Helene. Donald Trump is spreading the lie that FEMA stole disaster relief funding to give free stuff to illegal immigrants. 

Here is Trump lying to his rally crowd about FEMA’s disaster response:

And here is a discussion of Trump’s lies. 

While you’re here enjoying DonkeyHotey’s latest cartoon, please take a moment to read these articles on related topics: 

The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Donald Trump caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), clouds (Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED), cat (Gratisography / Pexels), cat  (Duy Nod / Pexels), cat (Berna Tosun / Pexels), cat (舞 龍 / Pexels), cat (Krasimir Georgiev / Pexels), dog (Blue Bird / Pexels),

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    DonkeyHotey creates art to illustrate news articles and opinion pieces. His current work is a combination of caricature, photo collage, and photo manipulation.

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