The Storm of Indifference

How Trump and Musk Abandoned Kentucky to the Tornado.

It was as if the sky itself was passing judgment. The tornado tore through Kentucky, ripping apart houses, uprooting trees, and when the storm settled, a landscape of devastation remained. At least 23 people lost their lives - men, women, children. And yet the real storm was something else: A storm of indifference that came from Washington.

Donald Trump, the president who styled himself as the “Savior of America,” stayed away. While Kentucky lay in ruins, while families wept for their dead, Trump sent out tweets about his “strong economic successes.” No sympathy, no words of comfort - just silence. But perhaps silence was still kinder compared to the words of his accomplice, Elon Musk.

Musk, the “Efficiency Czar,” appointed by Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), had tightened the screws - and tightened them until they broke. The National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky, was nothing but a shadow of itself. No overnight staffing, barely any meteorologists. The warnings came, but too late, too inaccurate. People didn’t just die from the storm - they died from a policy of coldness and profit.

Hundreds of jobs were cut, offices shut down. Jackson was not alone. Other weather service offices in California, Kansas, Wyoming - the same story everywhere. Musk’s DOGE saved money until the sky itself became a threat. And Trump? He applauded, spoke of “lean government,” posted AI rockstar videos of himself. But what use is a lean government and troubling Trump rockstar videos to the dead?

It is an unprecedented arrogance that manifests in this new power elite. A billionaire who decides over people's lives like a false idol. A president who pretends to be a savior but is nothing but a miser of mercy. They created a government that does not protect but fails.

Kentucky will bear the scars of the storm for a long time. But the real wounds are invisible - the trust in a government that betrayed its citizens. A tornado can come and go. But the storm of indifference? That stays.