{"id":5949,"date":"2025-07-13T05:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5949\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:23:04","slug":"trumps-bonkers-response-to-texas-flood-tragedy-in-fox-news-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5949\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Bonkers Response to Texas Flood Tragedy in Fox News Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump suggested the tragic loss of life that occurred in Texas as a result of historic flooding could have been mitigated if the county had \u201cbells… or something, go off.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump on her Fox News show, My View with Lara Trump, the president spoke about the deadly floods that has killed at least 129 people. On Friday, he visit<\/a>ed Kerrville, Texas, where he met with officials and spoke to the media alongside wife Melania.<\/p>\n

Lara asked her father-in-law, \u201dWhat is your message to the people who are suffering down there, to the parents of the young girls at the camp who were killed?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"USUS President Donald Trump, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and First Lady Melania Trump meet with local officials and first responders near the Guadalupe River following devastating flooding that ocurred in the area over the July 4 weekend, in Kerrville, Texas, on July 11, 2025. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

The president replied, \u201dThere can be nothing worse than losing a child, and the way this happened… there was very early warning, they warned the day before, they warned even two days before, they warned four hours before…\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201dMaybe they should have had bells… or something, go off. But it\u2019s pretty dangerous territory when you think of all the times they\u2019ve had this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local officials have come under severe scrutiny in the aftermath of the floods, with many questioning why the county did not have an alert system in place like other flood-prone counties.<\/p>\n

Camp Mystic<\/a>, which lost 27 campers and counselors in the floods, is located in a high-risk flood zone<\/a>, and a hazard mitigation report<\/a> sent to FEMA by Kerr County in October 2024 said that a flood that could potentially exceed historical records was likely within a year, The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

\"CampCamp Mystic’s century-old campgrounds were completely destroyed by the flood, which also claimed the life of its longtime director, Dick Eastland. RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

County officials said in a statement to The Times, \u201cOur city and county leadership are committed to a transparent and full review of past actions.\u201d They continued, \u201cOur city and county leadership are committed to a transparent and full review of past actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were at least three occasions<\/a> between 2017 and 2024 where Kerr County officials applied for funding for a alarm-based flood warning system, but their requests were denied by the state, the report added.<\/p>\n

Following the devastating floods, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said<\/a> there \u201cshould have been sirens\u201d in Kerr County, and that if local officials could not afford them, \u201cthe state will step up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump sit with Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) as they attend a roundtable meeting with local officials and first responders in Kerrville, Texas, on July 11, 2025. Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

While Gov. Greg Abbott said that the state legislature would investigate the floods, he hit back<\/a> at attempts to assign blame earlier this week, arguing that \u201devery team makes mistakes\u201d and that blame was \u201dthe word choice of losers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump echoed these sentiments at his press conference in Kerrville on Friday, lashing out at a CBS News reporter who asked what the president would say to families who were upset about not receiving alerts in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances,\u201d Trump responded, before adding, \u201conly a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump suggested the tragic loss of life that occurred in Texas as a result of historic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1072,88,1022,92],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-texas","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}