OHIO’S EAST PALESTINE — On Wednesday, after giving a speech at the East Palestine fire station, the town’s police and fire departments, along with anybody else who happened to be at the McDonald’s at the time, were treated to free meals courtesy of the former president.
The 45th president, upon entering the McDonald’s on Market Street in East Palestine, Ohio, reportedly remarked, “So is everybody eager to take free lunch from Trump?”
The firefighters, the cops, and everyone within here is in good hands with us. Trump was overheard telling the McDonald’s clerk, “They’re going to receive a wonderful, free lunch.”
This past Wednesday, President Trump visited the small Ohio community of East Palestine, where he gave hundreds of water bottles to locals in the wake of a railway catastrophe that released deadly chemicals into the air.
In the same McDonald’s interview with Breitbart News, Trump said that President Joe Biden, about Biden’s recent trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, “chose to travel a different path” and visit East Palestine instead.
I think it would have been best for him to see us. There was no reason for him not to be here. He was expected to be here, but instead “he went a different path,” Trump added.
The 45th president also addressed U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s bogus allegation that a withdrawn 2018 DOT regulation concerning ECP brakes was to blame for the East Palestine train catastrophe.
“That had nothing to do with anything,” Trump replied. A breakdown such as this one shows that “we’re like a third-world nation.”
I have folks who are flying aircraft, and they’re getting delayed, so I know [Buttigieg] has to take a look at the airports. Three days have passed since they arrived at the airport. Trump said, “It’s crazy what’s occurring.
Furthermore, Trump said that Buttigieg “should have been here [East Palestine] a long time ago.”
When asked if residents of East Palestine may drink the water, Trump responded, “It will be safe shortly because FEMA is now moving in.” As soon as it seemed like FEMA wouldn’t be coming, they did.
FEMA had earlier told Ohio Governor Michael DeWine (R) that the railway derailment disaster would not qualify for FEMA help; nevertheless, once it was known that Trump planned to visit the little town, FEMA opted to deploy federal resources to East Palestine.