This Trump Looniness Is Even Too Much for Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Jim Hightower on Sep 3, 2025

Some days I don't know whether to rage in fury, weep quietly or just throw up.

This, however, is definitely a throw-up day. Our U.S. Secretary of State (a once-honorable position that advocated humanitarian values) has just decreed that war-torn Palestinian children from Gaza will be denied medical visas that would let them come here for life-saving surgeries. Yes, innocent children horribly maimed by the US bombs, bullets and billions of our tax dollars that our government sends to prop up the corrupt Israeli regime of Netanyahu, have now had America's door slammed in their faces by President Donald Trump's nutball extremists.

How extreme? Even bulldog right-winger Marjorie Taylor Greene is appalled that top U.S. officials have turned so cold as to reject common decency for "Palestinian kids who had their limbs and bodies blown apart." But Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who reportedly once had a smidgeon of political integrity, immediately snapped to attention when someone named Laura Loomer -- one of Trump's loopy "influencers" -- proclaimed that these Palestinian medical seekers were "pro-Hamas."

Hello ... they're children! To which the Loomer lady summoned this piece of ignorance from deep within her dark soul: "They are not that sick if they can sit on a plane for 22 hours to get to America."

Okay, she's just a doofus, but Rubio? A practicing Catholic, he surely knows Jesus' biblical admonition: "Suffer the little children to come unto me." Yet, he has officially banned them from the compassionate arms of the American people, darkly warning: "It's not just kids ... a bunch of adults are accompanying them."

Yeah -- their parents, guardians, good Samaritans. Gotta watch out for those types.

KENNEDY'S "HEALTHY FOOD" REFORM GETS EATEN UP BY BIG FOOD CORPORATIONS

Bobby Kennedy, Jr. seemed on the right track when he launched his "Make America Healthy Again" campaign.

Well, not the wacky-quacky part of that agenda, where he teeters off into the prickly thicket of medical voodoo and vaccine bugaboos. But he was onto something fundamentally important when he began to rally public opposition to the arrogance, greed and willful destructiveness of pesticide peddlers and other Big Food profiteers.

As Secretary of Health, Kennedy pushed Trump's "presidential commission on children's health" to take long-overdue action to rein-in those agribusiness contaminators of our food supply and natural resources. He called for limits and outright bans on industrial ag and food processing abuses that grow corporate profits at the expense of healthy kids.

Great!

But wait -- the commission's draft report is now out, and none of Kennedy's most meaningful stuff is in it. None! There's no suggestion, for example, that even the most toxic cancer-causing pesticides should be outlawed, permanently removed from food products and our environment.

What happened? Money. While Kennedy was publicly talking a good game, Big Food profiteers were paying a million dollars each to have intimate talks at private dinners with Trump. And when money talks, political integrity walks.

Sadly, rather than resigning in protest of Trump's whitewash and rallying America's families to carry this betrayal into next year's elections, Kennedy is hyping the report's empty calories as a people's victory! But he can't make chicken salad out of chicken manure. Grassroots groups themselves call the gutted report "beyond laughable," "profoundly disappointing" and "dangerous."

For genuine, structural change in food policy, go to Environmental Working Group: ewg.org.

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