We shouldn't be surprised that Trump arrived with his branded water bottles and Big Macs to save the day when officials at every level passed responsibility for the toxic train derailment as quickly as possible, writes Annelise Nielsen.
About an hours drive from Pittsburgh, just over the Ohio border, the small town of 4,700 people pops up out of the blue in a densely wooded enclave.
He replied, “They say they don’t care about us because we’re white, poor and voted for Donald Trump. Well for me they got two things right, I am white and I did vote for Donald Trump. But I’m not poor.” Workers here still live in a world where a hard worked 9-5 is rewarded with a solid standard of living.
They do care when they can’t make ice tea with tap water and when the people in charge tweet that everything is ok from a safe distance.Smoke rises from the derailed cargo train in East Palestine on February 4. Picture: Dustin Franz/ AFP) A number of locals repeated to me that they were upset Joe Biden had travelled to Ukraine before he’d been to Ohio.
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