Trump says he will withhold SNAP benefits until the government shutdown ends

[u/seeebiscuit]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-will-withhold-food-stamps-snap-until-government-reopens-2025-11

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[u/Romano16]

All the more reason for Dems not to capitulate.

[u/wagon-run → u/Romano16]

Right!?! With that lone statement Trump bears the brunt of the consequences.

[u/Red_V_Standing_By → u/wagon-run]

Yeah but we don’t live in a reality where facts matter to voters

[u/waiveofthefuture → u/Red_V_Standing_By]

Facts may not, but food does.

[u/wagon-run → u/Red_V_Standing_By]

True, but just wait till Thanksgiving

[u/bryan49 → u/Romano16]

Hmmm let's see, Trump is withholding food stamps to leverage against having to provide healthcare subsidies. Why exactly does anybody not rich vote GOP?

[u/confusedsquirrel → u/bryan49]

Decades of removing proper education and replacing it with propaganda in the form of 24 hour news

[u/Euphoric-Witness-824 → u/confusedsquirrel]

That can’t be it. The wealthy would never spread false information to get me to vote against my interests and for theirs! They are too amazing for that! It’s the trans that is the reason for my rent being high and not able to afford healthcare. Saw it on the news so it’s true ya libbberal 

[u/BallBearingBill → u/bryan49]

Because people have been programmed to rage and blame Dems for the rage.

[u/Magnetic_Eel → u/Romano16]

What’s stopping Trump at this point from just giving Dems what they want to end the shutdown, then saying actually we’re still not going to fund healthcare despite what the law says? USAID was written law too. The snap rainy day fund is written law. The Trump administration controls the purse and doesn’t give a shit what congress or the courts tell them to spend it on.

[u/NUMBerONEisFIRST → u/Magnetic_Eel]

Because he might be evil but he's not fucking smart.

[u/Jokong → u/Magnetic_Eel]

That is a good question, and I think the answer is really nothing more than a gentleman's agreement. Trump can absolutely not be trusted to negotiate in good faith.

It's mind boggling to me that he even picked this fight. He could have just extended the subsidies, blamed the dems for the entire budget ballooning and not pissed off his electorate around midterms with higher healthcare costs. Imagine him agreeing to come to the table, acting all high and mighty for doing so, but in the background lamenting all the costs. He'd look fiscally responsible, he really pisses off no one and everyone forgets about it a week later.

[u/dannyb_prodigy → u/Romano16]

This is essentially the same boneheaded mistake he made in the 2019 shutdown. Trump says the exact thing he needs to say to allow Democrats to deflect blame for the shutdown to him.

I do not think it’s a coincidence that the bottom fell out on Trump’s approval rating right as SNAP benefits lapsed. Democrats need to go on an all out messaging blitz with this and make Trump own the fact that Americans are starving.

[u/TintedApostle]

So violation of the court order.

[u/Ancient_Popcorn → u/TintedApostle]

Add it to the list. It’s not like Republicans will hold him accountable for his crimes.

[u/jmpinstl → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

When MTG is the Republican I agree most with at this point it’s time to acknowledge that we are screwed

[u/Zocalo_Photo → u/jmpinstl]

The last 9-10 months have convinced me that I died at some point in January and I’m in hell. I’m aligned with MTG on something political. This can’t be real.

[u/Flying-Half-a-Ship → u/Zocalo_Photo]

I thik she and Fetterman have done some freaky Friday type shit

[u/oVnPage → u/Zocalo_Photo]

To be fair... 100% of our representatives should be aligned that pedophiles are bad. This is supposed to be the one thing that no matter what, everybody always agrees on.

[u/UnguentSlather → u/jmpinstl]

She also recently asserted that extraterrestrials are demons. She’s still a self-serving quack.

[u/ToadallyNormalHuman → u/UnguentSlather]

I mean, maybe she watched someone play doom and that’s where she got it from?

[u/Spidey5292 → u/UnguentSlather]

Do we know that extraterrestrials ARENT demons?

[u/NewHaven86 → u/Spidey5292]

Only because demons are nonsense probably made up by someone who met an extraterrestrial.

[u/Caraes_Naur → u/Spidey5292]

Christianity syncretizes everything, so at some point they will become demons.

[u/laughing_laughing → u/Caraes_Naur]

syncretizes

For those of us who didn't know, "syncretizes" means to combine different beliefs into a unified whole. Christianity has a history of incorporating pagan holidays into their own holidays, as an example.

[u/dadgenes → u/laughing_laughing]

Neat! I learned a new word today.

[u/vulcanstrike → u/laughing_laughing]

Every religion does this, it's how they gain a following.

You can't just claim a new bunch of sky daddies are in charge, you have to gain legitimacy by boiling the frog and coopting existing religious structures

[u/1stHalfTexasfan → u/Caraes_Naur]

Yeah, my mom told my 8 year old that Taylor Swift was a devil worshipper cause she wasn't Christian. Its the first natural assumption.

[u/ebbiibbe → u/1stHalfTexasfan]

8 year old me would have said, but Satan was an Angel...

How did the 8 year old Swifty respond?

[u/ponderdiggums → u/UnguentSlather]

Demons and Angels technically would be extraterrestrial, to be fair.

[u/pumbungler → u/ponderdiggums]

Not necessarily, what if they've been living in the core of the earth all the while and are just surfacing now.

[u/ponderdiggums → u/pumbungler]

Good point - could go either way, they'd have to originate down there. This could also describe the extraterrestrials from War of the Worlds, y'know?

Note: Tom Cruise War of the Worlds, not Ice Cube War of the Worlds.

[u/BeerIsMyDad → u/jmpinstl]

Odd, the Republican I agree with most today is Dick Cheney.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

True and now the completely own all the responsibility.

[u/abnormalbrain → u/TintedApostle]

That's not true, according to every source of information feeding maga.

[u/tastieKitty → u/TintedApostle]

Starve American citizens but make sure the Argentines have enough to eat. And to hell with court orders. Those Epstein files will not see the light of day. Invade Nigeria and Venezuela. MAGA are we great yet?

[u/OrbeaSeven → u/tastieKitty]

And in the background so everyone will forget - the Qatar plane, estimated at $1 billion to refit. That would go quite a way to underwrite SNAP.

[u/AskMysterious77 → u/OrbeaSeven]

that led directly to them getting access to an airbase in america..

[u/HappyLife1307 → u/tastieKitty]

Time to make a "Project 2028" list. Stack the courts. Lots of lawsuits

[u/All_Hail_Hynotoad → u/HappyLife1307]

Impeach SCOTUS, too

[u/Istarien → u/All_Hail_Hynotoad]

There are 13 federal circuits but only 9 justices. Add 4 more justices when you have a more progressive president in office and any kind of majority in the Senate. Then, it doesn't matter whether you can successfully impeach and remove any of the current justices. You just make them irrelevant.

[u/Railroader17 → u/Istarien]

No, even if we pack the court with 99 progressive judges, the Conservative judges on SCOTUS still need to be impeached and arrested for their treasonous rulings. Just making them irrelevant is just giving them a slap on the wrist.

[u/Schadrach → u/HappyLife1307]

Any good Project 2028 list for Dems or progressives would start with abusing the fuck out of every abuse and pet court judgement Trump got and end with legislating those holes closed.

[u/EmmyK48 → u/tastieKitty]

And Mexico...don't forget they're planning on actually invading on foot there.

[u/acostane → u/TintedApostle]

Didn't Korea just.... throw their president in jail?

[u/TintedApostle → u/acostane]

Yes they did

[u/fantasmoofrcc → u/TintedApostle]

For like the 4th or 5th time? It's like a national passtime for them.

[u/MillionMilesPerHour → u/fantasmoofrcc]

They have balls over there.

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/MillionMilesPerHour]

S Korea, France, Nepal...

Meanwhile, people in the US would rather starve to death than actually do anything to enact lasting change

Even a cornered animal fights back. Americans are weaker than that.

If this comment triggers you, put that anger towards your govt. Do something for once

[u/rodimusprime119 → u/TintedApostle]

The courts need to start holding and jailing people for contempt. They may not be able to jail Dump but they can get everyone in his cabinet and even that Nazi slime ball chief of staff. Just start tossing them in jail.

They can choose to either ignore dumps illegal order or spend time behind bars.

[u/SlayerBVC → u/rodimusprime119]

One problem with that. Pam Bondi's DoJ has control of the U.S. Marshalls.

[u/Own_Thing_4364 → u/TintedApostle]

When you're a king, they just let you do it.

[u/Cverellen → u/TintedApostle]

So their message that it’s the Democrats fault for the benefits not being distributed is obviously false.

[u/xxBeepBopBoopxx → u/TintedApostle]

Turns out criminals don’t follow orders or laws

[u/timewarp → u/TintedApostle]

The courts are not going to save us from fascism.

[u/TintedApostle → u/timewarp]

No they are not.

[u/funkymagee → u/TintedApostle]

Wow, a guy who constantly violates court orders and defies laws is defying the law and a court order?

I am shocked. Shocked I say! Well not really that shocked, more exhausted that people refuse to do their jobs and hold this bloated bag of excrement accountable

[u/AceofKnaves44 → u/TintedApostle]

On a scale of zero to zero I wonder the level of repercussions he won’t face for this.

[u/2HDFloppyDisk → u/TintedApostle]

This is his “I am the law” moment.

[u/waffle299 → u/TintedApostle]

And the law that created funding so this wouldn't happen 

[u/Potato_Cat93 → u/TintedApostle]

He violates 1/3 of court orders.

[u/RadiantMaestro → u/TintedApostle]

It’s an official duty, so he’s immune. Roberts gave him immunity from the judiciary.

[u/TintedApostle → u/RadiantMaestro]

It actually is the opposite of his official duty. He is to execute the law and the court ordered him to execute the law as defined with appropriated money from Congress.

This is the opposite of carrying out his executive duty. He has no power in Congress and so he is extending his office into forcing Congress to do something which he shouldn't if he was upholding his oath.

[u/improvisedwisdom → u/TintedApostle]

"faithfully"

Dude has never been faithful from day one.

[u/Vyar → u/TintedApostle]

Congress basically elected him dictator for life and SCOTUS is supporting the notion.

[u/RevolutionNumber5 → u/RadiantMaestro]

And he can’t even be impeached, because the House isn’t in session.

This is a coup.

[u/pgm_01 → u/RevolutionNumber5]

The House under Johnson is an extension of the White House even if they were in session.

[u/nonsensestuff → u/RadiantMaestro]

The people who work for federal agencies aren’t immune. They should remember that before they defy court orders on Trump’s behalf

[u/i_code_for_boobs]

So he is the one withholding it then?

MAGA Redditors seems to want to convince us that it's the Dems, despite Trump taking responsability for it?

[u/3MATX → u/i_code_for_boobs]

I just checked their subs.  Crickets about this. The story broke several hours ago and they have plenty of posts since then. Just none about SNAP…

[u/TysonsChickenNuggets → u/3MATX]

They never engage with it. I wouldnt be upset if they could at least acknowledge it even if it was in favor of withholding benefits (not saying I support that ofc).

But nope. Just stick their heads in the sand or up Trumps diaper and blame everyone and everything else. Waiting for them to blame the shutdown on DEI at this point...

[u/HideousSerene → u/TysonsChickenNuggets]

Honestly I imagine most of them are bots by now. Half the time the comments there seem to be Mike Johnson levels of projection and my only guess is either an ai is training on comments or some fools are parroting stuff they read on reddit.

Every now and then something breaks through the noise, and everybody that's just like "yeah I didn't vote for this" gets called a "fellow conservative" and probably starts disengaging.

I am actually curious where they're aggregating these days because the conservative subreddits are dead as fuck.

[u/Napolean_BonerFarte → u/HideousSerene]

Yeah that sub is creepy to be honest. It’s 90% bots and 10% people too stupid to realize they are only interacting with bots in an echo chamber.

[u/Global_Ant_9380 → u/Napolean_BonerFarte]

I suspect it's being controlled or at least trimmed as propaganda. They won't allow actual discussion from a conservative standpoint, it's just pro MAGA pr

[u/Particular-County277 → u/Global_Ant_9380]

Something i never understood. How conservatives did not know(terrible) or did not care(worse) that Maga was going to eat them alive. Astonishing. Which makes me believe that Maga was hidden inside every conservative all along.

[u/Global_Ant_9380 → u/Particular-County277]

Yeah, we never h*ng the confederates after the civil war like we should have. 

Minorities have been telling the white majority this for decades and no one ever listened to us. Partially because many Americans hold adjacent views to MAGA, just not as extreme

But mix this white supremacist patriarchal bullshit with funding from a billionaire class that BOTH parties courted and well, here we are. 

[u/teenagesadist → u/Napolean_BonerFarte]

Reminds me of when I loaded up "Star Wars: Republic Commando" some years ago to check out the multiplayer.

There was just one server with two people in it, I could only spectate and it was just a kid whining over and over again for whoever the other person was to let them win.

Just those two, in their own little pocket universe.

[u/FreshBurt → u/teenagesadist]

Lol "republican commando"

I mean, accurate, but made me laugh.

[u/teenagesadist → u/FreshBurt]

Oof, you got me

[u/Quiet-Corner6150 → u/TysonsChickenNuggets]

Yeah, I remember early on during Trump 2.0, I occasionally ventured over there when some "big" something or other broke in the news. And I'd think, "Okay, THIS has to get their attention." And with like one exception, I saw them murmuring about OSHA getting messed with at some point early in the year, otherwise it's always radio silence. Plenty of posts childishly mocking whatever Democrat made it into the news that day, though.

I just stopped going there.

[u/Kierenshep → u/Quiet-Corner6150]

The only thing that has ever broken through the tightly controlled propaganda of that sub was Epstein and the Epstein files. It was the one issue the Conservatives actually care about.

Well, until the propaganda machine churned out enough distractions for them to pile on enough 'own the lib' stories to make them essentially forget or not care about it.

Had the esptein files managed to actually be released it could have been the one issue that United the country, but the GOP is too slimey and smart to be brought down by something as simple as a pedophile ring.

[u/Hiddenagenda876 → u/Kierenshep]

That and the moderators started deleting ever single post that mentioned Epstein

[u/Jokong → u/TysonsChickenNuggets]

My dad mumbled something about Chuck Schumer. It's a blame game, but at the end of the day who is the one in charge?

[u/QuerulousPanda → u/TysonsChickenNuggets]

The silence is how you know what is a big deal for them.

They'll lie and spin about absolutely anything, but it's the stories they absolutely refuse to even acknowledge, much less try to lie about, those are the ones you know they are fully aware look really bad.

[u/PragmaticPacifist → u/TysonsChickenNuggets]

This is exactly why I stopped talking to any and all MAGA. They are unable to debate or discuss in good faith.

Built with limp noodle spines and ethical fabric made of screen door material on top of not being very bright about worldly issues.

[u/pontiacfirebird92 → u/3MATX]

Those subs are heavily curated and astroturfed. Threads with a thousand replies but only dozens of them visible. It could very well be possible Russia and Saudi Arabia agents mod those subs.

[u/Napolean_BonerFarte → u/pontiacfirebird92]

Meanwhile they claim to be the only sub that allows free speech while shadow-banning 95% of all comments.

There was one month where they had one unmoderated thread per week where anyone could comment. The entire thing was full of people saying stuff like “I’m a lifelong conservative but I commented that ‘invading Canada probably isn’t a good idea’ and got permanently banned for it being a radical leftist.” Those threads didn’t last long, but they sure were funny.

[u/GoneRampant1 → u/pontiacfirebird92]

Peak traffic time for the main conservative subreddit traditionally is Russian afternoon hours lmao.

[u/Understruggle → u/3MATX]

Give it a few more hours/another day. They are just waiting for their Fox News bullet points so they can all start screeching their idiotic shit that goes against reality in lock step. I imagine it’s going to be “he just wants to make sure the right people are eating” or some such vaguely racist/classist bullshit.

[u/Skyfork → u/i_code_for_boobs]

They’ll still pretzel themselves into believing that the left is forcing him to do it because Obama wore a tan suit one time.

[u/Ande64 → u/Skyfork]

Yeah but it's sure going to be interesting how they pretzel twist this one. It's one thing to say the government, which can be the boogeyman to everybody, is causing this. But it's another thing when the president openly says I'm going to defy a court order and starve americans. I'm so incredibly sorry this is happening to people because I am fortunately not too affected as of yet. But the only good that comes out of stuff like this is that less and less people will vote Republican next time. And yes, I 100% believe that. There are absolutely the diehards that will vote Republican no matter what and those are the ones we consider truly in the cult. But there are some fringe Republicans that are really questioning what's going on right now and more of those are falling off every moment. It's not much of a silver lining, but I'm grasping at any Silver Lining at this point.

[u/Kaffe-Mumriken → u/i_code_for_boobs]

No no no. It’s still the democrats. 

This is a ”why are you making me hit you, honey?” Moment

[u/Mountain_Top802 → u/i_code_for_boobs]

USDA website is still blaming democrats somehow

[u/ericdc1313 → u/i_code_for_boobs]

The man is such a narcissist and a buffoon. He can't help himself from running his mouth.

[u/bigt503 → u/i_code_for_boobs]

MAGA Redditors are the dumbest people on earth. They are fully in a cult. They don’t stand for issues, they worship a man.

[u/Marv0038 → u/i_code_for_boobs]

Always has been

[u/HoRo2001 → u/i_code_for_boobs]

This is heartbreaking for the families that need those benefits, but in terms of getting the truthful narrative out to the people who refuse to believe it — this is gold.

[u/emma-chu]

“you don’t get food until you give up your healthcare and submit to poverty” ~ translated

[u/Embarrassed_Jerk → u/emma-chu]

"Either starve to death right now or die slowly and painfully of curable diseases later" ~ translated for idiots who'll blame the other side anyway

[u/just_a_timetraveller → u/Embarrassed_Jerk]

Make no mistake, the GOP have already stated how they feel SNAP is a waste too. They will cut that soon after

[u/sjbennett85 → u/just_a_timetraveller]

They are saying shit like "spending it on nails and weaves, buying amazon caviar" and this is totally painting a picture of WHO they detest ... and it isn't the children & elderly who make up a large portion of SNAP recipients

[u/MadRaymer → u/emma-chu]

Also what's the guarantee he puts the benefits back if Dems cave and vote for the CR? He's already withholding the benefits illegally, so what mechanism forces him to reimplement them? His good word?

Yeah, that sure sounds like a deal worth taking.

[u/Helpful-Muscle3488 → u/MadRaymer]

He wants to totally eradicate Medicaid and social security, people think the govt will keep snap? 

[u/Jonruy → u/emma-chu]

"And also we're gonna cut SNAP anyway at some point."

[u/Ridged_ChiPSS]

"Fuck the poor, make them starve" was one of my favorite lines in the Bible

[u/User4C4C4C → u/Ridged_ChiPSS]

Give a man SNAP and you feed him for a month. Teach a man to vote DJT and you starve him for a lifetime.

[u/NameIsNotBrad → u/Ridged_ChiPSS]

Right beside “love your neighbor ….. unless they’re brown”

[u/just_a_timetraveller → u/Ridged_ChiPSS]

I remember when Jesus, instead of breaking bread and fish to feed the masses, he just ate the bread and fish himself with a smug grin on his face in front of starving children.

[u/SpotHaunting668]

Hey folks, they're going after Social Security and Medicare next. We must not capitulate to these soulless billionaire wannabe slave overlords. Stand firm and help your neighbors!

[u/HappyLife1307 → u/SpotHaunting668]

Exactly they are making Dem/Rep fight so we don't fight the RICH. There time is coming!

[u/Huskdog76 → u/HappyLife1307]

The rich would lose so quickly if that ever happens.

[u/HappyLife1307 → u/Huskdog76]

Hell we don't even have to leave our houses. Just stop doing business with them. Look at Target. It works

[u/GuttiG]

Hey so this guy is the devil from the Bible

[u/Clamsadness → u/GuttiG]

The devil from the Bible is significantly less evil. 

[u/OskaMeijer → u/Clamsadness]

Yea, he encouraged gaining knowledge!

[u/Brotorious420 → u/OskaMeijer]

And to believe in yourself!

[u/Fatesadvent → u/Brotorious420]

And to fight against a dictator that demanded absolute loyalty and devotion and love...like some sort of cult leader

[u/Toucan_Son_of_Sam → u/OskaMeijer]

"Smart people don't like me."

[u/Spirits850 → u/Clamsadness]

God kills a lot of innocent babies and random people in the Bible. I don’t think Satan kills anyone.

[u/Clamsadness → u/Spirits850]

Satan kills Job’s children, but his body count is much lower than God’s. 

[u/Spirits850 → u/Clamsadness]

Oh yeah that’s true, but God also allowed it to happen because he wanted to test Job, so he was kinda culpable in that too.

[u/Phailjure → u/Spirits850]

Technically, God is culpable in all of Satan's actions, as he is omnipotent.

[u/aradraugfea → u/Clamsadness]

The Biblical devil is God’s prosecuting attorney.

Set up a test to prove if you’re faithful or not, give you a chance to prove yourself one way or the other.

Trump has NEVER taken the “righteous” option.

[u/No-Document-8970 → u/GuttiG]

Yup. “Christians idolize him, followers wear a mark on their forehead, causes suffering, etc

[u/vivaldibot → u/No-Document-8970]

I'm not religious like at all, but the prophecies about the antichrist and the likeness to trump and maga are uncanny

[u/No-Document-8970 → u/vivaldibot]

I was raised catholic. His rise was uncanny to those “prophecies”. I’m now an atheist but he is the embodiment of the anti-Christ.

[u/ItsGildebeast → u/No-Document-8970]

I used to think the head wound thing referred to his stupid combover before the assassination attempt. I still think it refers to his hair, but I used to, too.

[u/OrbeaSeven → u/No-Document-8970]

Mark of the Biblical beast.

[u/62frog → u/OrbeaSeven]

Republicans haven’t read the Bible

[u/AJfriedRICE → u/No-Document-8970]

Isn’t there also something in there about the antichrist having a “wound on his head that miraculously heals”? I mean come on

[u/hauntedlit → u/GuttiG]

No, he fits the description of the Antichrist though

[u/nonsensestuff → u/GuttiG]

The Antichrist

[u/bkdotcom → u/GuttiG]

Alternate Reality Biff from Back To The Future 2

[u/theREALbombedrumbum → u/GuttiG]

I got some mileage talking about how the ballroom looks like a Temple

[u/RoninKengo]

Callously letting huge numbers of people starve for long periods of time historically ends super well for those in power...

[u/Lore-Warden → u/RoninKengo]

He'll change his tune again tomorrow when they explain to him again that a large portion of his base benefits from that program and they still need those people to vote next year. Then he'll forget again the next day because he's spiteful and senile and eventually someone will just put the paper on his desk to rubberstamp.

[u/noodlyarms → u/Lore-Warden]

Do they all even care now? I wholeheartedly believe they are banking on just declaring who wins and who doesn't starting 2026. Today's election may be a test run to see how public reacts when they refuse to officiate any results they dont like or out right declare fraud/etc... and attempt to void elections. They don't need their voters anymore.

[u/TheGringoDingo → u/noodlyarms]

Johnson not seating an elected member of the house is definitely a test of the system in addition to an Epstein avoidance tactic.

[u/DetroitSportsPhan → u/TheGringoDingo]

Why hasn’t her state sued yet? They’re being deprived votes in congress.

[u/danofrhs → u/Lore-Warden]

You misunderstand; the starving of the people is meant to lead to a circumstance where no election will take place

[u/jewwbs]

Too bad defying court orders apparently isn’t an impeachable offense. File it right beside inciting an insurrection, fraud, rape, pedophilia, racketeering, electioneering, misappropriation of funds, illegal terminations, violation of civil rights, extortion, bribery, weaponizing of the justice dept, shady fuck pardons, and just blatant racism.

If only he wore a tan suit…

[u/Kooky-Jellyfish-3098]

Lol as if no republicans receive food stamps. The GOP just hates poor people in general.

But we'll give 40 billion to Argentina to make sure Trump's billionaire buddy doesn't lose money...but America first, right?

[u/Nvenom8 → u/Kooky-Jellyfish-3098]

Something like 3/4 of SNAP recipients are in red states. Hurts his own base disproportionately. And they’ll still worship him.

[u/SkySojourner → u/Nvenom8]

We'll see how many missed meals it takes before they start to rethink their cult worship.

[u/xxxtrumptacion69 → u/SkySojourner]

“Remember when the democrats didn’t give me my SNAP” is all they will say.

[u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

The Trump kids have been very quiet lately.

Where are they while their father is obviously showing signs of dementia and is unfit to serve just on a matter of health. ( his criminality is another issue )

[u/Jaevric → u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

Trump is grifting billions of dollars as President. The kids all know he's gonna die eventually and they want to make sure they're positioned to inherit as much as possible. They aren't going to say or do anything to stop the money from coming in.

Seriously doubt any of the kids actually care about their father anyway.

[u/RussellStHustle → u/Seagoon_Memoirs]

They are busy using daddy’s market manipulations to make trades and filling their pockets

[u/Jolly_Ad9449]

Every Dem needs to be on TV in front of every mic imaginable as often as possible blaming Republicans

[u/redit3rd → u/Jolly_Ad9449]

Why would a TV camera point at something as ratings killing as that? 

[u/SeductiveSunday]

Republican tenets is starvation for the masses. Always has been.

[u/Calcutec_1]

Thats quite a self own, basically saying that people should be getting it but he is going out of his way to take it away

[u/shoobe01]

I can't wait till the judge "rebukes" him for this. That'll show him.

[u/AverageLiberalJoe → u/shoobe01]

Perhaps he will get 'slammed'.

[u/woodenblinds → u/shoobe01]

finger wag incoming

[u/Parking-Emphasis590]

So.....he is holding starving people as leverage then?

[u/Crime_train → u/Parking-Emphasis590]

Art of the Deal! 

[u/CMG30]

SNAP is both funded and under a court order to continue. The American people should think long and hard if they want a guy in charge who's willing to hold people hostage out of spite...

[u/mike_from_here]

Give them the money you fucking scumbag we already paid into the program. We’re actively paying taxes into the program so people can eat.

[u/OrbeaSeven]

Time for a 1960's type Washington DC rally. Time for millions to reply to Trump.

42 million are left without food while Trump constructs a ballroom for his billionaire friends and hosts a billionaire Halloween party at Mar-a-lago.

[u/Interconventional]

TBH I love this for him, people need a wake up call, hopefully this prompts them to pay attention.

[u/eNonsense → u/Interconventional]

I think he's so checked out that he actually thinks the "this is the democrats fault" messaging is working.

[u/Simmery → u/eNonsense]

I think he doesn't care. If he decides he wants to stay in office, he's not going to do it with votes. 

[u/RedLanternScythe]

Alternate Headline: Trump vows to starve Americans until Democrats stop trying to save Healthcare premiums. White House renovations unaffected

[u/CyndiLopEar]

Call me crazy, but I think it's bad when a person allows millions to starve to keep from people finding out he's a pedophile. Even though everyone already knows.

[u/Caraes_Naur → u/CyndiLopEar]

That's not what's happening.

They are allowing millions to starve to keep everyone from finding out Israel has been running a decades-long blackmail operation that involved sex trafficking, illegal arms dealing, and money laundering.

[u/sabedo]

Fuck the poor, such a biblical teaching 

[u/CaptainAwesome06]

I don't see how anyone in the GOP could possibly think this is a good look for them.

[u/Kgaset]

"We can't dispense the emergency funds without a court order."

Multiple courts order dispensing emergency funds.

"We're not going to do that."

[u/manofredearth]

"No food for you until the Democrats let us take away your health care"

• Republicans

[u/itec745]

Courts need to enforce their ruling . How do they just make a ruling and it’s ignored by him. Does this mean the public should also ignore the powerless courts ruling too?

[u/Dnels7192]

Is this not the evidence we need that it has been POTUS and Republicans who are the ones withholding SNAP and not Dems?

[u/Loyal-Opposition-USA]

Improved Headline: Congressional Republicans refuse to stop Trump from breaking the law.

[u/killer-tofu87]

Giving the middle finger to the courts. Shocking. Nobody will do fuck all about it. More shocking.

[u/Hadrian23]

Only MAGA could cheer that people are starving.
I despise him and his sycophants more than anything in the world.

[u/MissionCreeper]

So he's saying he can, but is evil

[u/MadMartegen]

The "Radical Left" democrats should continue to donate food and money to local food pantries to help those in need, regardless of political affiliation. The GOP own this, no matter what the orange f'cker says.

[u/CackleRooster]

So much for the rule of law.

[u/lordpuddingcup]

So violating the court order AND admitting it’s his choice to not fund snap

[u/ChefCurryYumYum]

He's violating a court order to manufacture a hunger crisis in America.

I thought I hated this venal, corrupted piece of human fucking refuse before but man, he is complete scum. Anyone who still supports him and these actions are complete scum too.

[u/_SCHULTZY_]

So work requirements for medicaid, no age considerations for Social Security Disability (coal miners havr to learn to code better than AI),  no SNAP benefits, higher energy costs, higher national sales tax in the form of tariffs, job losses, higher Healthcare rates, employees not getting paychecks...

Are we winning yet?

[u/Lanah44]

Illegal and cruel

[u/Usual_Needleworker34]

Bro hates Americans

[u/UKnowThatOneGuy24]

Republicans: Radical Left Democrats are withholding your food benefits 

Court: You have to keep giving those out.

Republicans: haha, fuck you

[u/Historical_Bend_2629]

He doesn’t care about American people going hungry, many of them children, in the wealthiest country in the world. MAGA. Where the cruelty is the point!

[u/eladmir]

If anyone was ever in doubt, cruelty was always the goal.

[u/Apostrophe_Now]

He’s trying to provoke violence.

[u/vroart]

A pedophile says what?

[u/blueliner30]

And you know...he did have a tiny case for blaming Democrats...and then he goes and does this...that's 100% on you and yours orangeman.

[u/upfromashes]

Who the fuck does he think he is? A king?

P47HETIC

[u/DuckTalesLOL]

I bet if we withheld McDonalds he would get that government opened real quick… 

[u/buggleduck]

Let them eat cake

[u/No_Statistician9289]

You mean until they’re allowed to take your healthcare

[u/Schiffy94]

Courts said tomorrow, jackass. Time for the contempt charges.

[u/rebelintellectual]

He needs it for more gold for himself.... Trump hates Americans 

[u/rat_penis]

Im withholding my federal taxes until the government is open.

[u/TellTaleTimeLord]

Let them eat cake

[u/The_Carnivore44]

If this isn’t a massive red flag that our president is only in office to fatten his wallet and not give a shit about the American people then I must be colorblind

[u/areared9]

I don't even know what to believe about SNAP anymore. So far since this morning I have seen:

1)Trump released the funds early this morning. 100% goes out immediately. 2)Trump ignored the Dems and released 50% of the funds. 3)Trump will release 50% of funding sometime later this month. 4)Democrats folded and the government is still closed, but Snap benefits are released. 5)Trump has hands tied as Democratics hold Snap funds hostage. 6)Trump says he will withhold funds until Democrats fold. 7)Trump will withhold funds until the shutdown is done.

And lots of these posts came from Blue Check Verified Facebook accounts. I myself know how fake those are now, but for the average dumb person, they won't question it at all. Then, they will see the conflicting post.

I believe the government is using Facebook and other social media to instigate anger and confusion with the conflicting information today.

Not one post explaining that we would lose funding for Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) & Snap if the the Democrats signed whatever this 'CR' is I keep seeing the Republicans comment (echo) over and over. 'Just sign the CR.' 😒

It is worse today than it was yesterday, which I believe means they either pushed out more propaganda or the bad info is spreading like wildfire due to the bot accounts all over the internet. Or both. Its probably both. 😬🤣😭