The worst of times has often brought out the best in Americans. But not always. 

As the death toll in the Independence Day Weekend’s Texas Hill Country floods topped 100 people on Monday, Democrats played politics with devastation. The flailing party, which seems to be campaigning exclusively on hatred for President Donald Trump and a slogan of “But People Will Die …!” is blaming the Trump administration for the freak, fast-moving floods that have ravaged the flood-prone region of Central Texas. They insist — falsely — that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)-driven cuts to the federal government’s bloated workforce prevented the National Weather Service from effectively warning residents of the rapidly rising waters. 

“I’m personally praying that Donald Trump finally understands this is not a game — it’s real life and there are serious consequences to playing politics with our security and emergency preparedness,” Ken Martin, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement. 

Looking to score political points on the bodies of victims, Democrats called for investigations to determine whether reports of staffing shortages at NWS offices in Texas exacerbated the catastrophe. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Democrat who represents San Antonio, was quick to cast suspicion on the Trump administration while acknowledging he didn’t have all the facts. 

“I don’t want to sit here and say conclusively that that was the case, but I do think that it should be investigated,” Castro said on CNN’s State of the Union, whose Trump-hating host Dana Bash was more than glad to join fellow corporate media reporters in pushing the Democrats’ “It’s Trump’s fault” narrative. 

‘Depraved Lie’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the Democrats’ latest nasty gambit a “depraved lie,” adding that blaming Trump “serves no purpose during this time of national mourning.” But a minority party wandering in a political wilderness of its own making seems to be dead set on campaigning on the flood victims.  

Leavitt told reporters during a Monday press conference that the NWS offices in the region, including centers in San Antonio and San Angelo, were fully staffed and issued “timely and precise warnings.” She detailed the many watches and warnings issued by the Weather Service well in advance of a rain event that turned out to be much more severe than predicted, at exactly the worst time.

“People were sleeping in the middle of the night when this flood came – that was an act of God, it’s not the administration’s fault that the flood hit when it did,” the press secretary said, pushing back against the left’s attack. “But there were early and consistent warnings and, again, the weather service did its job.” 

The facts didn’t get in the way of a good crisis for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. The New York Democrat played up his letter to a government watchdog demanding a probe into staffing vacancies at the Texas weather stations. Schumer, of course, quoted a New York Times story in which an NWS employees union official complained about staffing vacancies, which labor unions are wont to do. The claims were disputed by the government agency. 

“Extra staff members from both offices, in addition to the West Gulf River Forecast Center, had extra personnel on the night of Thursday, July 3 into the day on Friday, July 4,” the National Weather Service said in a statement. “All forecasts and warnings were issued in a timely manner. Additionally, these offices were able to provide decision support services to local partners, including those in the emergency management community.”

‘No Place in Decent Society’

The NWS assurances didn’t stop the left’s “depraved lie.” 

Speaking of depravity, Trump Derangement Syndrome pinup girl Rosie O’Donnell, thankfully Ireland’s problem now, went on a verbal bender on TikTok. 

“When the president guts all of the early warning systems and the weather forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re going to start to see on a daily basis,” raged the former View panelist who previously blamed Trump’s 2016 presidential win for a drinking problem and for “overeating.” 

“Because he’s put this country in so much danger by his horrible, horrible decisions and this ridiculously immoral bill that he just signed into law … people will die as a result, and they’ve started already. Shame on him,” she said, referencing last week’s passage of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. 

Meanwhile, a former Democrat appointee to Houston’s Food Insecurity Board played the most despicable form of identity politics in suggesting the white Christian girls from Camp Mystic who died in the floodwaters didn’t deserve sympathy. 

“I know I’m going to get canceled for this, but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls Christian camp. They don’t have a token Asian, they don’t have a token black person. It is an all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp. If you ain’t white, you ain’t right, you ain’t getting in, you ain’t going. Period,” Sade Perkins claimed in her rant. 

Houston Mayor John Whitmire, a Democrat who served in the Texas state Senate for 40 years before being elected to the mayoral post in 2023, issued a statement calling Perkins’ comments “deeply inappropriate and have no place in decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing.” Whitmire noted that Perkins is not a city employee and that she was appointed by former Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner. Sylvester died in March while serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Perkins’ term on the board expired in January. Whitmire said he was taking steps to permanently remove her from the board and that he would not reappoint her. 

But Perkins wasn’t done insulting the dead and the sensitivities of a community in mourning. In subsequent social media posts, she described herself as a “scapegoat to cover up for the f***up of a flood,” and, like her fellow leftists, blamed “MAGA Trump up there in the White House” for the historic deadly floods. 

“I did not cause the flood, nor did I cause the failure from the National Weather Service and FEMA. Those were done by design, by the [Texas] Lieutenant [governor], and by the Governor, and your f***ing President,” Perkins said.  

Meanwhile, the Camp Mystic family was grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors Monday evening, praying for the safe return of the missing, and leaning on the God that brought them together in worship.  

“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,” the camp said on its website. “We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls … We ask for your continued prayers, respect and privacy for each of our families affected. May the Lord continue to wrap His presence around all of us.”