As Twitchy reported earlier, Sen. Chuck Schumer has already claimed that the Trump administration is going to kill people by defunding PBS and NPR. “It’s a matter of life and death," he said, noting that public broadcasting is the only way people can get information on natural disasters.
Now Schumer is shocked by the cruelty and incompetence of the Trump administration, which is incinerating 500 tons of emergency food. Why would President Donald Trump do that if not to kill more Americans?
How's this for a game of telephone? Snopes looked into a report from The Atlantic:
The rumor stemmed from a report in The Atlantic that cited anonymous sources within the U.S. government. It did not mention which part of the government employed these sources. We have contacted the White House and the Department of State, under which USAID operated, to seek confirmation that this food was indeed set to be incinerated. We will update this report should they respond. Because Snopes could not directly verify the story, we left it unrated.
Citing these sources, the report said these high-energy biscuits were in storage at a warehouse in Dubai, a city and emirate of the United Arab Emirates. The administration of former President Joe Biden had acquired the nutrient-packed biscuits to distribute to children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to The Atlantic. The biscuits, which could have fed 1.5 million malnourished children for one week, had cost $800,000, the sources reportedly told The Atlantic, and their incineration would cost another $130,000, bringing the total bill to nearly $1 million.
The food expired on July 16, 2025, the report said. It had been stored in Dubai for months as staffing and funding cuts prevented USAID, the agency that acquired it, from distributing it.
Ah, The Atlantic cited anonymous sources. The same Atlantic that had anonymous sources reveal that Trump called troops "suckers and losers." Even Snopes couldn't rule on this one.
Maybe Schumer could send over some raw cheeseburgers.
No, it was all due to USAID cuts.
The post continues:
… don’t keep pretending a broken pipeline is helping people just because it sounds good in a press release. If the aid was never going to reach those who needed it, and if the system storing or managing it was compromised, then yes, you shut it down and fix it.
The same politicians crying foul now are the ones who ignored the dysfunction and let this food rot in Dubai for years. Trump isn’t destroying help as you framed it he’s refusing to enable a corrupt system that gives the illusion of compassion while wasting time, money, and resources.
If you actually care about helping people, you demand better. Not just more waste and more headlines.
If it's expired, it must have been sitting in that warehouse, undistributed, for a long time. But now Trump is incinerating it just because he's cruel and wants kids to starve. OK.
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