‘ASININE’: Sky News TORCHED for Blaming Trump and DOGE for Suffering After Myanmar Quake
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Britain’s Sky News was met with swift backlash on Saturday after the outlet connected President Donald Trump and DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) to suffering in Myanmar after a devastating earthquake killed at least one thousand people on Friday.
A 7.7 magnitude tremor that struck near Mandalay rocked the region, destroying buildings and spreading devastation as far away as Bangkok.
Authorities in Myanmar were still rescuing people trapped on Saturday when Dominic Waghorn with Sky News connected the disaster to Trump and DOGE’s targeting of the United States Agency for International Development.
In an analysis of USAID and how its shuttering of aid programs related to the quake, Waghorn wrote:
The impact in the aftermath of this earthquake is likely to be severe. Trump’s decision to shut down the US Agency for International Development was already reported to have decimated US aid operations in Myanmar. Its global impact is hard to overstate. American aid had provided 40% of developmental aid worldwide.
Yesterday, Trump promised Myanmar aid for the earthquake. In reality, his administration has fired most of the people most experienced at organising that help and shut down the means to provide it.
Sky News boosted Waghorn’s report on X with the headline, “The Myanmar quake is the first major disaster to suffer the brunt of Donald Trump’s devastating cuts.”
The outlet was met with immense backlash from Trump supporters, but others also ripped into Sky News for what they viewed as finding a way to quickly politicize the tragic natural disaster. Here is a small sample of the blowback:
US taxpayers are expected to automatically foot the bills for disasters worldwide?
Do you think this piece will influence assistance beyond Rubio's commitment to aid?
— Sandy
(@RightGlockMom) March 29, 2025
What the fück is this bull shite?
—
Honk Hogan
What a ridiculous news report. Pick your act up Sky.
— On Ya Mate
(@onyamate1) March 29, 2025
A federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE from its shutdown of USAID, flagging that the group may have violated the Constitution in “multiple ways.”
“The Court finds that Defendants’ actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID officer, likely violated the Constitution in multiple ways,” the judge found.
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