President Donald Trump toured the devastating Texas floods in Kerrville on Friday. He praised first responders and spoke with victims’ families. But it only took one question from a local reporter to set him off.
Marissa Armas of CBS News Texas asked a simple, fair question: “Several families we’ve heard from are obviously upset because they say that those warnings, those alerts, didn’t go out in time, and they also say that people could have been saved. What do you say to those families?”
Trump’s tone shifted fast.
“Only a bad person would ask a question like that,” he said. “Only a very evil person.”
REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn’t go out in time. What do you say to those families?
TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was a one in 1,000 years. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil… pic.twitter.com/IwYS6JJOCF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 11, 2025
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Standing in a disaster zone where at least 120 people have died, including 36 children and 27 girls from Camp Mystic, families are begging for accountability.
Trump called it a “one in 500, one in 1,000 years” event and said, “I just have admiration for the job that everybody did.” He praised the response as “heroism” and said it had been “incredible.” But he didn’t directly respond to the question about whether lives could have been saved.
Reports show that the National Weather Service did send out flood warnings, but the strongest and most urgent alerts were sent after midnight, when many people were already asleep.
Even more troubling, local officials had previously asked for $1 million to improve the flood warning system. That request was denied. Now people are dead. And rather than face that reality, Trump attacked the person asking why.
In recent days, Trump also snapped at a reporter who brought up Jeffrey Epstein. He dismissed questions about U.S. airstrikes on Iran and accused journalists of being fake and unfair.
That’s the pattern. When asked about facts, Trump lashes out. When faced with real grief, he blames the press.
The White House had been hoping this visit would show Trump as a strong leader. They even released a strange photo earlier this week calling him “Superman Trump.” But the public saw something different. Tired eyes. Swollen face. Angry words.
Senate Democrats have already called for an investigation into the National Weather Service. They want to know if staff shortages or broken systems played a role. Many agree this kind of disaster should be a wake-up call for better emergency alerts.
Marissa Armas has spent days in Kerrville. Her Instagram shows her walking through flood zones, talking to survivors, and picking up broken pieces of people’s lives. Her question came from the heart of the tragedy.
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