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Rosie O’Donnell blames Trump for deaths in Texas flooding, Stephanopoulos adds to ‘hoax’

July 7, 2025 | | Print Article

Bitter expat Rosie O’Donnell weighed in on the deadly Texas flooding, and of course, she blamed it on President Donald J. Trump, a man with whom she has an unhealthy obsession.

Even after fleeing the country following last year’s election because Trump won, the comedienne still fixates on the Republican leader and took to social media to whine about the “Big, Beautiful Bill” and to falsely claim that deaths of more than 80 people, including dozens of children, who perished in the catastrophic flooding, are the president’s fault.

The former talk show host railed against Trump in a Sunday TikTok post, accusing him of gutting “all of the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government” and predicted that such tragedies will occur on a “daily basis” because of the landmark legislation that the president signed on the Fourth of July and that “people will die as a result.”

“What a horror story in Texas. The flash floods in Texas, the Guadalupe River, 51 missing — 51 dead, more missing, children at a camp,” O’Donnell said. “And, you know, when the President guts all of the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re going to start to see on a daily basis 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.”

“Shame on him,” she continued. “Shame on every GOP sycophant who’s listening and following the disastrous decisions of this mentally incapacitated POTUS.”

As of early Monday morning, CNN is reporting that the death toll has risen to 82, 28 of the victims are children. There are still dozens who are missing including girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp in Kerr County.

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O’Donnell wasn’t the only one pushing the big lie that people could have been saved. Democrat lickspittle George Stephanopoulos also blamed Trump for inadequate staffing at the National Weather Service during Sunday’s edition of “This Week” on ABC News, still smearing the president even after his bogus rape allegation cost the network $16 million in a defamation lawsuit settlement last year.

“We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region,” the activist anchor claimed.

But as is often the case with Stephanopoulos, he was pushing a hoax which was easily debunked by other media outlets that reported that the local NWS office in New Braunfels, TX had extra staff on hand for the storms.

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“False claims about the NWS have been repeatedly debunked by meteorologists, experts, and other public reporting,” said White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson in a statement to media outlets. “The NWS did their job, even issuing a flood watch more than 12 hours in advance.”

“This is a hundred-year catastrophe and it’s just so horrible to watch,” the president told reporters on Sunday, saying that he will “probably” visit the disaster area later this week.

“I would’ve done it today but we just would’ve been in their way,” Trump added.

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