引言：
当龙卷风席卷家园，阿肯色州人民满心期待援助。但特朗普亲手关上了大门。忠诚？对他来说，不过是一次性工具。了解一下这场令人愤怒的灾难背后的真相：Sara 州长是川普1.0的新闻秘书，为他献忠，效犬马之力，替他撒谎。川普两次当选，阿肯色两次贡献选票给川普。如今？
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俄克拉荷马州民众请记笔记。因为当下一场F-4或F-5级龙卷风呼啸着掠过你的社区时，你们将真正陷入绝境。
2025年3月14日至15日，阿肯色州上空乌云密布，灾难来得又快又无情。确认发生了14场龙卷风，席卷了全州。三人遇难，房屋被夷为废墟，社区失去了电力、庇护和安全。当风暴平息时，灾难已覆盖十个县，造成超过1.1亿美元的损失。
而随后，第二场灾难降临了。
唐纳德·特朗普说“不”。
尽管州长莎拉·赫卡比·桑德斯正式请求联邦政府发布重大灾害声明，特朗普政府却拒绝了阿肯色州急需的联邦援助。联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）的官方理由？损失尚不足以超出州和地方政府的应对能力。
请仔细想想：整个街区被夷为平地，生命消逝，而联邦政府——那个阿肯色州曾两次助其上台的人领导的联邦政府——却选择了袖手旁观。
没有解释，没有同情，没有援助。
曾称特朗普为“我们有生以来最有效总统”的桑德斯州长，如今被迫公开乞求援助。她在自己的求助信中写道：
“此次灾难的巨大规模导致了压倒性的废墟量、广泛的房屋和商业建筑毁坏、三人不幸遇难以及许多人受伤。”
但即便如此，她的请求仍未打动特朗普领导下的FEMA。而这种拒绝看似官僚冷漠，实际上我们早已见识过这场“电影”：在特朗普的世界里，灾难救援从来不是基于需求，而是基于忠诚，是政治算计，是报复。
加州森林大火时，特朗普嘲笑该州森林管理不善，威胁撤回援助；飓风玛利亚横扫波多黎各时，他拖延救援，诋毁当地官员，还在灾民面前扔纸巾；新冠疫情肆虐蓝州时，他扬言按州长对他的“感恩程度”分配呼吸机和援助。
这不是财政政策，这是惩罚。
莎拉·赫卡比·桑德斯，请认识一下——
特朗普主义：
作为特朗普的前白宫发言人，桑德斯曾为他的每一句谎言辩护，为他的每一场冷酷找借口。她为这位如今让她的家乡烂尾的男人卖命。她亲身体验了很多人最终才意识到的事实：特朗普没有盟友，只有工具。用完即弃。
这应当成为一个警醒时刻——不仅是对桑德斯，也是对所有将特朗普视为不可触碰的半神、任由他将联邦政府变为政治报复武器的共和党人。
即使是阿肯色州也不安全。
地方官员在苦苦哀求救援：
在受灾最严重的小镇之一温恩（Wynne, AR），市长詹妮弗·霍布斯（Jennifer Hobbs）直言不讳：
“我们仍在清理废墟。我们仍在努力帮助居民寻找住处。我们需要援助。我们无法独自完成。”
但他们依然被孤立。
参议员汤姆·科顿（Tom Cotton）、约翰·布兹曼（John Boozman）以及阿肯色州的国会议员们，已齐声呼吁政府重新考虑。但回应是：沉默。没有修改的提案，没有重新审视的表示，甚至没有总统的一句回应——那个他们曾帮忙重新送上权力宝座的人。
什么样的领导者会在自己的选民被废墟掩埋时选择惩罚他们？
灾难救援不是效忠测试。
阿肯色州并没有要求特殊待遇。2025年3月这场龙卷风灾害，按FEMA过去的标准，完全符合联邦援助条件。在其他州（通常是蓝州）遭遇类似破坏时，联邦援助几乎是立刻到位。
真正的不同不是风暴，而是掌权的人。
而在特朗普第二个任期内，信息已再清晰不过：如果你的州不奉承他，就要受苦；如果你的地方官员不跪舔他，你的城镇就得不到救助；如果你的州长对他没用了，你的人民就成了无辜牺牲品。
给全美的信息令人心寒：
这已经不仅仅是阿肯色州的问题了。这关乎我们所有人——任何地方——在关键时刻能否指望政府的援助。如果答案取决于谁在掌权，以及你在福克斯新闻上是否足够拍马屁，那我们就不再是一个共和国。
我们成了人质。
风暴已过，但警告犹在：
这就是特朗普所许诺的未来：忠诚高于法律，冷酷高于关怀，权力高于人民。
他不仅拒绝提供援助——他在立下一个血淋淋的榜样。
而阿肯色州，一如既往地忠诚，正在领悟：当掌权者没有灵魂时，你的忠诚一文不值。
龙卷风是自然灾害。而特朗普随后所做的，是人为的蓄意灾难。
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编者后记：灾难当前，谁才是真正的领导者？在这个时代，忠诚该向谁？这是个生与死的选择。请转发，让更多人看到阿肯色的遭遇！
撰文：Tony Pentimalli
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
编译：林胥
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原文：
翻译：Oklahomans: Take notes. Because when the next F-4/F-5 roars through your neighborhood, you’re all well and truly fucked
When the skies opened over Arkansas on March 14–15, 2025, the damage was swift and unforgiving. Fourteen confirmed tornadoes ripped across the state. Three people died. Homes were reduced to splinters. Communities lost power, shelter, and safety. By the time the winds died down, the devastation covered ten counties and left over $110 million in damages.
And then the second disaster struck.
Donald Trump said no.
Despite a formal request from Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders for a major disaster declaration, the Trump administration denied Arkansas the federal aid it desperately needed. The official FEMA justification? The damage wasn’t severe enough to overwhelm state and local resources.
Let that sink in: Entire neighborhoods leveled, lives lost, and the federal government—led by the man Arkansas helped elect twice—walked away.
No Explanation. No Empathy. No Aid.
Governor Sanders, who once called Trump “the most effective president of our lifetime,” now finds herself in a new position: publicly begging for help. In her own words:
“The sheer magnitude of this event resulted in overwhelming amounts of debris, widespread destruction to homes and businesses, the tragic loss of three lives, and injuries to many others.”
Even her appeal letter couldn't sway Trump’s FEMA. And while the denial may look like bureaucratic indifference, we’ve seen this movie before. In Trump’s world, disaster relief is not about need. It’s about loyalty. Political calculation. Retribution.
When California burned, Trump mocked the state’s forest management and threatened to withhold aid. When Hurricane Maria flattened Puerto Rico, he delayed help, slandered local officials, and threw paper towels while people died. When COVID ravaged blue states, he floated holding back ventilators and aid based on which governors showed him enough "appreciation."
This is not fiscal policy. It’s punishment.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Meet the
Trump Doctrine:
Governor Sanders served as Trump’s press secretary, spinning his every lie, excusing his every cruelty. She carried water for the man who now leaves her state to rot. She learned the hard way what many have come to realize too late: Trump doesn’t have allies. He has tools. And when he’s done using you, he discards you.
This should be a moment of reckoning—for Sanders, yes, but for every Republican who has treated Trump like an untouchable demigod while he’s turned the federal government into a weapon of political revenge.
Even Arkansas isn’t safe.
Local Officials Are Begging for Relief:
In Wynne, AR, one of the towns hit hardest, Mayor Jennifer Hobbs put it bluntly:
“We are still cleaning up debris. We are still trying to help our residents find housing. We need help. We can’t do this alone.”
But alone they remain.
Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman, alongside Arkansas’s congressional delegation, have all urged the administration to reconsider. And yet, silence. No revised offer. No second look. No acknowledgment from the president they helped return to power.
What kind of leader punishes his own voters when they’re buried under rubble?
Disaster Relief Is Not a Loyalty Test:
Arkansas wasn’t asking for special treatment. The March 2025 Tornado Outbreak qualifies by every standard FEMA has used in past disasters. Similar levels of damage in other states—often blue ones—have triggered federal assistance almost immediately.
The difference now is not the storm. It’s the man in power.
And under Trump’s second term, the message is clear: if your state doesn’t flatter him, it suffers. If your local officials don’t kiss the ring, your town doesn’t get help. If your governor isn’t useful anymore, your people become collateral damage.
The Message to America Is Chilling:
This is bigger than Arkansas. This is about whether any of us—anywhere—can count on our government to show up when it matters. Because if the answer depends on who’s in office and whether you praised them enough on Fox News, we’re not a republic anymore.
We’re hostages.
The Storm Has Passed, But the
Warning Remains:
This is the future Trump offers: loyalty above law, cruelty above care, power above people. He’s not just refusing aid—he’s making an example.
And Arkansas, loyal as ever, is learning what loyalty gets you when the man in charge has no soul.
The tornadoes were natural disasters. What Trump did afterward was deliberate.
*Written by Tony Pentimalli
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
