Donald Trump was not happy that the media spent much of the weekend covering the powerful category 5 Hurricane Ida and its devastation on the Gulf Coast instead of his “great deal” with the Taliban.
“All they talked about was the hurricane. You look at CNN and you look at MSDNC, these are horrible,” Trump told radio host Todd Starnes on Monday. “Unfortunately, they’re way down in ratings, but all they want to talk about is the hurricane or anything else they can talk about, Afghanistan is not even something that can even be discussed in a rational way.”
“The level of stupidity — and we had a great agreement,” Trump continued.
Trump accused the media of not reporting that he came to an agreement with the Taliban and their leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to not kill any Americans or else, “we would have hit them so hard.”
“They knew that, Abdul knew that,” Trump said. “I would have taken the equipment out, I would have taken the people out, and then we would have bombed every base but Bagram,” he said.
Millions remain without power and at least four people have died as a result of the hurricane. Hundreds of thousands of people are without clean drinking water and there’s threats of flooding in Tennessee and Ohio.
This in the middle of a pandemic. Experts worry crowded shelters and delayed treatment in low-lying areas with low vaccination rates may increase the spread of the virus leading to more cases and deaths, USA today reports.
Despite this, Trump blasted the media for covering the hurricane.
“The media, which is fake and crooked and corrupt, they’re the worst people, they’re the most corrupt people,” Trump said. “The only thing I don’t understand is why. They’ve got to hate our country. And they are, in fact, the enemy of the people. But the corrupt media shows the hurricane all night long.”
