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F** Around and Find Out: West Virginia’s MAGA Loyalty Meets Reality
“There is no loyalty except loyalty to the Party.” — George Orwell, 1984
They cheered when he put on the coal miner’s hat. They roared when he promised coal would come roaring back. They gave him the biggest margins in the country. And when their homes were underwater, when they were stranded in their cars for days, when their children were sleeping in emergency shelters, he ignored them for 10 days. This is what happens when a transactional con man no longer finds you useful.
Let’s talk about my home state of West Virginia’s ultimate FAFO moment because if there had ever been a state that should have received immediate federal disaster relief from Donald Trump, it would have been West Virginia. Instead, when record floods devastated McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, and Wyoming counties, Trump’s White House went radio silent for ten days. No press conferences. No dramatic Air Force One landing. No empty promises about how “nobody’s ever seen disaster relief like this before.” Just silence—while people sat in flooded homes, makeshift shelters, and cars parked above railroad tracks.
Meanwhile, Kentucky, hit by the same storm, got federal aid within 24 hours.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a pattern. Trump plays politics with disaster relief.
* When California burned, he threatened to withhold aid unless they “cleaned their forests.”
* When Puerto Rico was destroyed, he turned it into a WWE-style feud with local officials.
* When Hurricane Helen hit North Carolina, he used it as a stage to bash Biden.
* But when West Virginia, his most loyal state, drowned? He didn’t even acknowledge them.
Why? Because there was no political theater to be had. There was no easy scapegoat, no Democratic governor to attack, no liberal stronghold to blame. Just poor, working-class Trump voters suffering in silence—and they weren’t useful to him anymore.
Trump only rewards loyalty when it benefits him.
West Virginia’s entire MAGA Republican congressional delegation begged for help—Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Justice, Carol Miller, Riley Moore. Even MAGA Governor Patrick Morrisey publicly pleaded with Trump for a federal disaster declaration. Nothing. Not one word from Trump.
It took ten days for him to act.
By the time FEMA finally showed up, families had already lost everything. Some had already given up and decided to leave the only home they’d ever known. Others were simply relieved they wouldn’t have to keep sleeping in their cars.
Here’s the brutal reality: Trump doesn’t care about West Virginia. He never did.
He put on the hard hat for the photo op. He threw out red meat about coal jobs. And when it came time to actually help, he ghosted them like a bad Tinder date.
West Virginia f***ed around.
And now, they’re finding out.
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By The Chuck Kyle Show“There is no loyalty except loyalty to the Party.” — George Orwell, 1984
They cheered when he put on the coal miner’s hat. They roared when he promised coal would come roaring back. They gave him the biggest margins in the country. And when their homes were underwater, when they were stranded in their cars for days, when their children were sleeping in emergency shelters, he ignored them for 10 days. This is what happens when a transactional con man no longer finds you useful.
Let’s talk about my home state of West Virginia’s ultimate FAFO moment because if there had ever been a state that should have received immediate federal disaster relief from Donald Trump, it would have been West Virginia. Instead, when record floods devastated McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, and Wyoming counties, Trump’s White House went radio silent for ten days. No press conferences. No dramatic Air Force One landing. No empty promises about how “nobody’s ever seen disaster relief like this before.” Just silence—while people sat in flooded homes, makeshift shelters, and cars parked above railroad tracks.
Meanwhile, Kentucky, hit by the same storm, got federal aid within 24 hours.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a pattern. Trump plays politics with disaster relief.
* When California burned, he threatened to withhold aid unless they “cleaned their forests.”
* When Puerto Rico was destroyed, he turned it into a WWE-style feud with local officials.
* When Hurricane Helen hit North Carolina, he used it as a stage to bash Biden.
* But when West Virginia, his most loyal state, drowned? He didn’t even acknowledge them.
Why? Because there was no political theater to be had. There was no easy scapegoat, no Democratic governor to attack, no liberal stronghold to blame. Just poor, working-class Trump voters suffering in silence—and they weren’t useful to him anymore.
Trump only rewards loyalty when it benefits him.
West Virginia’s entire MAGA Republican congressional delegation begged for help—Shelley Moore Capito, Jim Justice, Carol Miller, Riley Moore. Even MAGA Governor Patrick Morrisey publicly pleaded with Trump for a federal disaster declaration. Nothing. Not one word from Trump.
It took ten days for him to act.
By the time FEMA finally showed up, families had already lost everything. Some had already given up and decided to leave the only home they’d ever known. Others were simply relieved they wouldn’t have to keep sleeping in their cars.
Here’s the brutal reality: Trump doesn’t care about West Virginia. He never did.
He put on the hard hat for the photo op. He threw out red meat about coal jobs. And when it came time to actually help, he ghosted them like a bad Tinder date.
West Virginia f***ed around.
And now, they’re finding out.
Get full access to The Chuck Kyle Show at thechuckkyleshow.substack.com/subscribe